Free (Mao Abe song)

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"Free"

Single by Mao Abe

from the album Free

Released

December 2008 (radio single)

Genre

J-pop

Length

3:52

Mao Abe singles chronology

"'I Wanna See You (AG Ver)'"
(2008)

"Free"
(2008)

"'Tsutaetai Koto/I Wanna See You'"
(2009)

Free (ふりぃ, Furī) is a song by Mao Abe. It was released as the main promotional track from her debut album, Free, in January 2009.^[1]^[2] Free is an upbeat pop rock song. In the lyrics, the protagonist expresses her feelings about how free she feels, and how she 'isn't the good girl she was yesterday.'^[3]

Release, promotion

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The song had three tie-ups: it was used as the music countdown show CDTV January 2009 opening theme song (though it did not chart in the CDTV top 100), the music show Mashup! Musico's January ending theme song and the Glico Pocky commercial for special air on music video channel Space Shower.

The song was released to radio stations in late 2008. However, the song gained its most popularity in late January. Then, it reached #1 on the combined physical sales/airplay-based Billboard chart Japan Hot 100.

Music video

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The music video was shot by director Masaki Ohkita,^[4] and shot in one day on November 22, 2008.^[5] The video begins showing Abe drawing spirals and patterns in the air with her finger (such as stars, or the song's name), before dawn at the Port of Kobe. Later, Abe performs the song with her band against the Kobe skyline. These two scenes are interspersed with shots of Abe singing the song in front of a wall of Marshall amplifiers.

As of April 20, 2010 the music video for Free has been viewed over 1,010,000 times on popular video-sharing website YouTube.^[6]

Personnel

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"Free"

A sample of the chorus of "Free."

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Mao Abe - acoustic guitar, songwriter
Teppei Kawasaki - bass
N.O.B.U!!! - background vocals
Noriyuki Kisou - recording, mixing
Yūichi Komori - arranger
Tsuyoshi Miyagawa - drums
Junko Sugawara - electric guitar

Chart rankings

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Chart	Peak position
Billboard Japan Hot 100^[7]	1

References

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^ "１０日前～正直な話。～". Archived from the original on 2012-07-09. Retrieved 2009-12-08.
^ "阿部真央アルバム先行試聴をMySpaceで実施中". Retrieved 2009-12-08.
^ "ふりぃ阿部真央歌詞情報 - goo 音楽". Archived from the original on 2009-03-07. Retrieved 2009-12-04.
^ "阿部真央ふりぃ (Only SSTV Edition)". Retrieved 2009-12-01.
^ "PV撮影". Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2009-12-08.
^ "阿部真央／ふりぃ". YouTube. Retrieved 2010-04-20.^{[dead YouTube link]}
^ "Mao Abe - Free". Music Charts. Archived from the original on 2011-05-11. Retrieved 2009-12-01.

v t e Mao Abe
Albums	Free Pop
Singles	"Tsutaetai Koto/I Wanna See You" "Anata no Koibito ni Naritai no Desu" "Itsu no Hi mo" "Lonely" "19-sai no Uta"
Promo singles	"Free"

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