SCANDAL to produce a song for Rina Katahira's new album

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SCANDAL will produce a new song titled "Party" for singer-songwriter Rina Katahira's (ex-PlayYou.House [later called Goose house] member) new album Saikou no Shiuchi (最高の仕打ち; The Best Disservice). The album will be released on February 3, 2016.

・SCANDAL's thoughts on producing music together

We were very happy that Rina wanted to work with us and gave us the offer!
It was our first time arranging another artist's song, but we worked out the arrangement while going in to the studio before recording and having sessions, and worked while having so much fun as it felt like the five of us were a band.
Our team grooves resemble each other's, so we were able to work it out harmoniously!

・SCANDAL's message to Rina Katahira:

We've heard it has the fastest BPM out of Rina-chan's library.
We apologize for the fast acoustic guitar stroking, too.
We believe that we have fulfilled our role.
Let's play a live together.
We are fans of yours. Thank you.
P.S. Let's go out for Turkish food.

Album trailer, which includes Rina Katahira's self-produced songs "Daremo ga", "Kemutai", and "Dare ni Datte Cinderella Story":

Katahira Rina's website

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The song /Party/ would be on-air today on Tokyo FM.

I'm not familiar with the artist but I would like to hear Scandals composition for the song.

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Here is "Party":

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Very nice song. Great vocals and SCANDAL did a fantastic job on the music.

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Oohh cool

Scandal bringing their signature rock sound to another artist, its awesome.

I can imagine Scandal playing this live with miss Katahira on vocals/acoustic.

The singers voice is pretty nice here too, the high notes are killer.

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Song sounds great! Enjoy the drums on this one. Hope they arrange all their own album songs as well.

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Here is the recording document from Katahira Rina's official YouTube channel

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I thought that SCANDAL actually composed all the song, but they only arranged the song

3. Party
Lyrics & Music: Rina Katahira
Arrangement: SCANDAL

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@victor_survive

Yeah, I thought the same thing heheh,

Here's the MV for Party

And for those who can't watch because YouTube can stink sometimes and we don't live in Japan, here's a link to a proxy page.

https://nl.proxfree.com/permalink.php?url=s54aaHA%2FaGsaD5vHs0QZLcUclS%2FcUxrnNZwEMCiA0I8ds8ZMr%2FF44C%2Fp1Wd6j8VJBnEDBsLBREpKbioUZBv%2FWg%3D%3D&bit=1

I don't know if this is a whole video since it didn't say "short version" maybe on the release date a full pv would come out but who knows.

BTW, i really like this song. .love.

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Rina Katahira's commentary about "Party":

3. Party
Arrangement by SCANDAL. As I was writing it I imagined girls rocking out majestically, and first and foremost thought of SCANDAL. We worked together, and what I was reminded of is that--naturally--regardless of gender, they're a true rock band.

https://twitter.com/katarina_81/status/694870380494761984

For those interested in the lyrics (although SCANDAL didn't help in writing them), here's my translation of "Party":

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