She started playing guitar in third grade of junior high school after not having success in learning the piano. The idea to play the guitar came because she was a fan of Chatmonchy. She played at home but hated practising and studying. According to her she was really bad at guitar, just playing G and C all the time. The band she liked the most was Happy End, but she also liked Tama, Ko Machida and INU, Masamune Kusano (Spitz), POLYSICS, Tokyo Karankoron, Kegawa No Maries, SEBASTIAN X, Siamese Cats and Jun Togawa. In her high-school years she had been in a band for a short while, and mostly she frequented a lot of live houses in the Shinjuku and Shimokitazawa area since her second year. She started writing songs around third year highschool but without showing it to anyone.
In 2012 while she was a second-year student at Wako University after a period of writing less she went back to singing and making music again because "all of her friends seemed to be making music at the time" but she continued to keep it for herself. It was until one of her friends, Natsuya Hamano, -who would be become her guitarist next- eventually heard some songs and showed it to his father, Yasumasa Hamano, who was a music engineer. He proposed her to record -he would become the drummer and music engineer- and that's how the the self-released mini-album 印税生活 came to be. It was an album released before doing any lives.
For the first formation, they called themselves カネコアヤノと印税生活 (Kaneko Ayano & Royalties Life) which is how the name for the mini-album came to be.
Next she would be contacted by a manager from Kitty Entertainment, after hearing the song はっぴいえんどを聴かせておくれよ(仮). This was the manager for the band Scandal, which is how she got to open for them in their Zepp-Tokyo Tour that same year.
In 2013 Takuma Motomura joined as a bassist.
In 2014 she released "来世はアイドル". Kaneko was a fan of the idol group Hello!Project at the time but she recognised she was too old to be one of them. Apart from them, Kaneko especially liked the 70's idol-group Candies, Pink Lady and the 70's idol Asaoka Megumi. She explains the song S・O・S by Pink Lady was used by an animation she watched when she was little. In her teens she remembered it and searched the original and that's how she got hooked up with this music.
In 2015 with the same backing band she released a new album 恋する惑星
In 2016, she cancelled her contract with Kitty Entertainment and self-released the mini-album, "hug". After this she got contracted to "we are" with a new manager. Hirotoshi Hayashi became the new guitarist. Later that year she released the EP さよーならあなた
In April 2017, she released an EP ひかれあい and later that year she released the album 群れたち
2018 saw Bob as the new drummer, and later the release of the album 祝祭 ひとりでに. Yasumasa Hamano continued as a recording engineer. The end of 2018 saw her changing record label, now 1994.
In late 2019 she released the album 燦々
In 2021 she released the album よすが
布と皮膚
カネコアヤノ Lyrics
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Tシャツの襟ぐりと首の境を
行ったり来たりバレないように
指先でそっと縫い目をなぞった
布と皮膚 布と皮膚 布と皮膚
交互になぞった
眠れない夜にそっと
爪を短く切りそろえてる
キミの頬 つねったり ギターを弾いたり
願いは一つ 愛が暮らしになればいい
もっと 呼吸をしやすく
布と皮膚 夢と外 舌でそっと
交互になぞった
眠れない夜に ずっと
夢と外 交互に帰った
布と皮膚 布と皮膚 布と皮膚
交互になぞった
眠れない夜にそっと
布と皮膚 交互になぞった
The lyrics to カネコアヤノ's song 布と皮膚 (布と皮膚をなぞる, hata to kihada wo nazoru) speak of a sense of intimacy and connection between two people. The singer describes tracing the boundary between the fabric of a T-shirt and the skin of their partner with their fingertips, feeling their heart racing with anticipation and excitement. The lyrics also describe moments of tenderness, like when the singer clips their partner's nails or pinches their cheek, as well as moments of shared passion, like when they play guitar together. The singer expresses a desire for their love to become ingrained in their daily lives, as something that makes their breathing easier.
The repeated refrain of "hata to kihada, hata to kihada, hata to kihada" emphasizes the physical connection between fabric and skin, suggesting that for the singer, their relationship is not just emotional but also tactile. The use of the alternating pattern of "hata to kihada" and "yume to soto" (dreams and the outside world) suggests a duality between the private, intimate moments between the two lovers and the larger, more unpredictable forces that exist beyond them.
Overall, the lyrics to 布と皮膚 convey a sense of closeness and deep connection between two people, while also acknowledging the difficulties and uncertainties that exist in any partnership. The imagery of tracing the boundary between fabric and skin serves as a symbol of their relationship, illustrating the ways in which love can be both tangible and elusive.
Line by Line Meaning
いろんなところがドキドキしてる
Various parts of my body are throbbing with excitement
Tシャツの襟ぐりと首の境を 行ったり来たりバレないように 指先でそっと縫い目をなぞった
I traced the seam with my fingertips, trying not to get caught while moving back and forth between the collar of my t-shirt and the base of my neck
布と皮膚 布と皮膚 布と皮膚 交互になぞった 眠れない夜にそっと 布と皮膚 交互になぞった
Alternating between fabric and skin, I traced them with my fingertips on a sleepless night
爪を短く切りそろえてる キミの頬 つねったり ギターを弾いたり 願いは一つ 愛が暮らしになればいい もっと 呼吸をしやすく
With trimmed nails, I pinch your cheek and play guitar. My one wish is to live a life of love and have an easier time breathing
布と皮膚 夢と外 舌でそっと 交互になぞった 眠れない夜に ずっと 夢と外 交互に帰った
Tracing with my tongue, I alternated between dreaming and the outside world on a sleepless night. I kept alternating between them all night long
布と皮膚 布と皮膚 布と皮膚 交互になぞった 眠れない夜にそっと 布と皮膚 交互になぞった
Alternating between fabric and skin, I traced them with my fingertips on a sleepless night
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Written by: Ayano Kaneko
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