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Don't Cry Anymore

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344:. It depicts miwa in a dark room with several free-standing doorways. Whenever miwa travels through one of the doorways, she comes into the same room set up differently. The first time, it is set up for a frivolous banquet, with many different people dressed formally. The second time she enters it, the room is set up as if it were a busy park sidewalk, with many people dressed in work clothes ignoring her. She decides to sit down at a park bench. miwa later finds a birdcage, and the scene switches to depicting her trapped inside the birdcage, with the floor littered with 538: 253:
about her feelings for him, as she stands beside Meguro River in Tokyo, in spring with cherry blossoms lining the river. "Wake Up, Break Out!" was written in her first year at high school, and she performed this often at live houses. She believes the song has the feeling of a live performance, since she recorded it with the same band as she did for "Don't Cry Anymore."
371:." It charted in the top ten airplay songs for three weeks. In the same time period, the song had poor reception on Adult Contemporary radio stations, only peaking at #52. Two weeks later, the song reached a higher ranking of #31 among the adult contemporary stations, though never reaching the success of "Don't Cry Anymore" on the overall airplay charts. 252:
miwa felt that "Don't Cry Anymore" was less indicative of her personality than the B-sides of the single. miwa describes the B-side "Megurogawa" as a "comfortable and tender" song, that feels like her starting point from where she started to make music. It describes somebody yearning to tell a boy
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The song performed well in the digital market. It debuted at #14 on RIAJ's Chaku-uta Full charts, but the next week reached #3. It charted for a further two more weeks in the top 10. Its final week in the top 100 was 7 weeks after its debut, where it reached #56. It was certified gold for 100,000
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song. The lyrics describe somebody instructing themself to stop crying and to be strong, no matter what. References are made to an end of a relationship, such as the song's protagonist "thinking that the happiness of feeling warmth while (she) slept would go on
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On the physical charts, the single charted in the top 30 for three weeks, and the top 100 for six. It was a gradual seller - only selling 9,000 copies in its first week, but eventually selling 22,000 copies.
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Interspersed between these scenes are shots of miwa performing the song in the same room, backed with a guitarist, bassist, drummer, keyboardist and four member
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The single received low level airplay for two weeks before its release, before becoming the second most played song in Japan for a week, under
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praised the song as being dynamic with "earnest lyrics." They noted an influence from
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Naoki-T - co-arranger, electric guitar, lead guitar, producer, programming, recording
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nukumori kanjinemuru to shiawase datta, sora ga eien ni tsuzuku to omotteita nano ni
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on 7 March. She also performed at the special 300th anniversary episode of
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in the song. The song won the award for best drama theme song at the 64th
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The second B-side, which Miwa often performed at lives before her debut.
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The first B-side, describing someone yearning for a boy at
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a month after the single's release, performing a cover of
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Chaku-uta Full downloads for the March 2010 period.
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Miwa - acoustic guitar, chorus, songwriting, vocals
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Index


Single
miwa
Guitarissimo
B-side
Genre
Pop rock
Label
Sony
Songwriter(s)
miwa
Producer(s)
Naoki-T
Miwa
Little Girl
miwa
Nana Eikura
Nakanai to Kimeta Hi
RIAJ
pop rock
Fuji Television
Nakanai to Kimeta Hi
Recochoku
Fuji Television
Music Fair
Cyndi Lauper
True Colors
Alan
Leona Lewis
Kana Nishino

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