カネコアヤノ -Kaneko Ayano- ( born 30/01/1993 ) is a musician, actress and model.… Read Full Bio ↴カネコアヤノ -Kaneko Ayano- ( born 30/01/1993 ) is a musician, actress and model. She was raised in Yokohama City , Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, the younger of two sisters by six years.
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
In early 2023 she released the album タオルケットは穏やかな

予感
Kaneko Ayano Lyrics

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予感はいつも通り過ぎてゆく風の中 ah
君といるこの日々は可愛くない顔で
写真に映るのも良いと知った

天使を抱えてる
恨みと引き換えに
天使を抱えてる
独り暗い部屋

怖い夢から逃げてこの歌と

歪んだ空気私たちの視線は両者 ah
君は君だけはいつでも笑っていいんだよ
消えない傷を守るふたりの涙
空が落ちる夜

羽はないよ
高すぎるところへは行ってはいけないから
息を吐いた朝焼けが綺麗で
部屋は染まるこの場所で yeah

天使を抱えてる
恨みと引き換えに
天使を抱えてる

独り暗い部屋
怖い夢から逃げてこの歌と

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Kaneko Ayano's song "予感" (Yokan) convey a sense of longing and vulnerability in a relationship. The opening lines, "予感はいつも通り過ぎてゆく風の中 ah" (The premonition passes by as usual in the wind, ah), suggest a fleeting feeling of anticipation that comes and goes. The singer expresses that their days with the person they are with are not always cute or pleasant, yet they have come to appreciate even capturing those moments in a photograph.

The following lines, "天使を抱えてる恨みと引き換えに天使を抱えてる独り暗い部屋怖い夢から逃げてこの歌と" (I hold onto an angel, in exchange for resentment, I hold onto an angel, alone in a dark room, escaping from scary dreams with this song), suggest that the singer feels burdened by their own emotions and seeks solace by embracing this metaphorical angel. The darkness and fear they experience push them to seek refuge in their music, as a means of escape.

The lyrics also touch on the dynamics within the relationship, with lines like "歪んだ空気私たちの視線は両者 ah" (The distorted air, our gazes, both sides, ah) and "君は君だけはいつでも笑っていいんだよ消えない傷を守るふたりの涙空が落ちる夜" (You, you can always smile, protecting the wounds that won't fade, the tears of the two of us, on a night when the sky falls). These lines suggest that the singer recognizes the struggle and pain within the relationship but chooses to protect and support the other person, even in the face of their own vulnerabilities.

Overall, "予感" (Yokan) portrays a relationship characterized by a mix of hope and darkness, where the singer seeks refuge in their music and finds solace in embracing an angelic presence.

Line by Line Meaning

予感はいつも通り過ぎてゆく風の中 ah
Anticipations always pass by in the wind, ah

君といるこの日々は可愛くない顔で
These days spent with you wear an unattractive expression

写真に映るのも良いと知った
I realized it's also good to be captured in a photograph

天使を抱えてる
I carry an angel

恨みと引き換えに
In exchange for grudges

独り暗い部屋
Alone in a dark room

怖い夢から逃げてこの歌と
Escaping from scary dreams with this song

歪んだ空気私たちの視線は両者 ah
The distorted atmosphere, our gazes meet, ah

君は君だけはいつでも笑っていいんだよ
You, and only you, can always smile

消えない傷を守るふたりの涙
Protecting our unhealing wounds, our tears

空が落ちる夜
The night when the sky falls