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

Emerald
Kaneko Ayano Lyrics

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朝はエメラルド
凄い速さで駆けてゆく
考えてみても仕方がないこと
ばかりだね

朝は白い壁
起きたら遠くの海へゆく
隙間から見える

横顔よどうかそのままで

クローゼットの中で
一番気に入ってる
ワンピース着ていくね
帰りには焼肉でも食べたい
大切なのは明るい明日だ

朝は厚い雲
包まれた体溶けてゆく
星の一つにも
今の私ならなれるよね

忘れられないよ
内緒のふたりになった日を
雨が降る日には
傘もささないで遊ぼうよ

クローゼットの中で
一番気に入ってるワンピース着ていくね
帰る頃には朝焼けでも見ようよ
大切なのは君との明日

明日会えるねそれだけで嬉しいよ
大切なのは明るい明日だ

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Kaneko Ayano's song "Emerald" paint a vivid picture of the beauty and possibilities of a new day, despite the overwhelming feeling of uncertainty and worry that can come with it. The opening verse describes the morning as "emerald," a beautiful and precious gemstone, but it's also moving at a "terrifying speed," implying that time is fleeting and we must tackle the day with intention. The singer acknowledges that there are many things to worry about, but dwells instead on the promise of a new day.

In the second verse, the focus shifts to the singer's personal routine - waking up to a white wall, staring out a crack to catch a glimpse of the sea, and donning a favorite dress from the closet. The clothes may seem like a small detail, but the choice to wear a dress that makes the singer feel good represents a sense of agency and control over the day ahead. The singer longs for a happy future, filled with sunshine and shared moments with a loved one.

The overall message of the song seems to be one of hope and resilience in the face of uncertainty. Despite the worry that comes with each new day, the singer chooses to focus on the beauty and potential of the present and future.

Line by Line Meaning

朝はエメラルド
In the morning, there is a brilliant green light that races by at a tremendous speed.

凄い速さで駆けてゆく
It goes by with an immense haste.

考えてみても仕方がないこと
Thinking about it is pointless and serves no good purpose.

ばかりだね
But that's all there is, isn't it?

朝は白い壁
In the morning, there is nothing but a white wall.

起きたら遠くの海へゆく
But when I wake up, I want to head to the distant ocean.

隙間から見える
Between the cracks, I can see.

横顔よどうかそのままで
Your profile- I hope it never changes.

クローゼットの中で
In the closet,

一番気に入ってる
I like the most

ワンピース着ていくね
I'll wear my favorite dress with me.