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ØMI (Tosaka Hiroomi 登坂広臣) - Purple Pill feat. SKY-HI

The song had been in production for 4-5 years, but Omi felt that it was incomplete if it was performed solo and shelved it. Omi and Sky-hi had been talking of collaboration for some time. Omi felt that Sky-hi could complete the song and thought that it was a good time take it out when they decided to collaborate.

Purple Pill is about facing the current reality and chasing dreams with the theme of "representing Japan". Both of them are 37yo and from the same generation of artists, with similar career paths and interests. In Japan idols who sell themselves as a product =/= artists, artists sing, dance and rap at professional level and often focus on their specialty. They are both singer-songwriters and belong to top-level non-idol boy groups, with Omi being Sandaime J Soul Brothers' vocalist and Sky-hi being AAA's rapper, and they are now interested in producing next-generation artists (the chasing dreams part in the song). Omi focuses on girl groups and is the creative officer of LDH (his boy group belongs to this company) and president of his own record label and entertainment company CDL Entertainment. Sky-hi focuses on boy groups and is the president of his own management company BMSG. They often talk about how they want to change the status quo of Japan's entertainment industry and music world - Japan is very insular in entertainment and gatekeeps heavily (the current reality mentioned in the song). Omi has done things like producing songs that use a instrumental chorus i.e not singing the chorus, which is very uncommon in Japan, as well as mixing genres and aligning closer to future bass and future house contrary to more mainstream jpop sounds and the rest of LDH.

song (Youtube) Japanese/Romaji/English lyrics under the cut

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