Music Corner Week 121: AAAMYYY
/AAAMYYY is a female electronic musician born Honami ‘Amy’ Fukuhara and began her music career when she came back from Vancover, Canada. She began an electro-pop group with her friend Shiori, called Go Retro in 2013. Once their group disbanded, AAAMYYY began the group Eemie with DJ Takuma, where they produced mainly English language music. The group debuted in 2015 and peformed at the Summer Sonic festival, from there AAAMYYY met the group Templay and joined as a supported member performing at the SXSW festival. AAAMYYY began her solo career in 2017 after becoming a Radio DJ; her debut song was '“8PM”. As she had did mainly English produced music, she decided to switch it up to Japanese as a way to reach more listeners in Japan. AAAMYYY western meets eastern style, her inspirations such as M.I.A. bring a memorable style of electro pop style music to Japan. Not only in AAAMYYY’s music career, but also her experience helped boost her audience range worldwide with the ability to sing in both English and Japanese.
AAAMYYY’s debut track, “8PM” drew me in with its catchy electric beat, fun lyrics, and smooth vocals that make you want to get up and dance. This is the type of track I play on a Friday night to get me in the mood for the weekend. “Swim In” has a consistent beat that delivers a nice chill vibe feeling you can’t help but bob your head or tap your feet to, plus AAAMYYY’s vocals perfectly flow with the beat which is steady yet pulsating in a good way. AAAMYYY’s collaboration tracks are perfection as the acts she works with know how to match her style such as tracks like “Z feat. Computer Magic”, “Island feat. MATTON”, Eyes feat. CONYPLANKTON, and KAMERA feat. TENDRE to name a few. These collaborations provide unique musical sounds with AAAMYYY’s pleasant voice along with the collaborating acts. One of AAAMYYY’s latest tracks, Ano emi feat. ano immediately caught my ear due to its composition being a mixture between electronic and alternative plus AAAMYYY’s vocals take a different tone than most of her tracks giving it a unique feel making it very memorable. AAAMYYY’s utilization of her vocal skills plus having a composition that stands out and lryrics to bolster all that made it easily a favorite.
AAAMYYY currently has three studio albums, MABOROSI WEEKEND (2018), Body (2019) , and Annihilation (2021); two EPs, ECHO CHAMBER (2022) and ETCETRA (2018); and eleven digital singles. Check out AAAMYYY’s official website, Twitter, Instagram, and one of her latest music videos “Ano emi” feat. ano below.
