Rocket Sneaker/One x Time

"ロケットスニーカー / One × Time
Rocket Sneaker / One × Time"
Single by Ai Otsuka
from the album Love Letter
B-side Sora to Kujira (空とくじら)
Released May 21, 2008 (2008-05-21)
Format CD, CD+DVD
Recorded 2008
Genre J-Pop
Length 21:17
Label Avex Trax
Writer(s) Ai Otsuka
Ai Otsuka singles chronology
"Pocket"
(2007)
"Rocket Sneaker / One × Time"
(2008)
"Kurage, Nagareboshi"
(2008)
Alternative cover
CD cover

"Rocket Sneaker / One × Time" is Ai Otsuka's 17th (18th overall) single released under the avex trax label. It is her first single released in 2008, on May 21.[1]

"Rocket Sneaker / One × Time" has been certified Gold by RIAJ for shipment of 100,000 copies . However, it is her lowest selling single.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Ai Otsuka. 

CD
No. TitleArranger(s) Length
1. "Roketto Sunīkā (ロケット スニーカー; Rocket Sneaker)"  Ai×Ikoman  
2. "One × Time"  Ai×Ikoman, Strings arrangement: Ittetsu Gen  
3. "Sora to Kujira (空とくじら; Sky and Whale)"  Ai×Ikoman  
4. "Roketto Sunīkā (ロケット スニーカー; Rocket Sneaker)" (Instrumental)Ai×Ikoman  
5. "One × Time" (Instrumental)Ai×Ikoman, Strings arrangement: Ittetsu Gen  
DVD
No. TitleDirector(s) Length
1. "Roketto Sunīkā (ロケット スニーカー; Rocket Sneaker)" (Music video)   

Rocket Sneaker is a piano-driven tune, reminiscent of rag-time music. It describes saying "thank you" to the Earth before going off it, but remembering that one is always "chikyuukko (地球っ子 (Earth child))". One × Time is a more mature love song, describing feelings of true love. It is lyrically confusing, but Ai revealed that it is from the viewpoint of a clock. Sora to Kujira is more of rock/pop song describing a whale that returns to the sky to join its mama (papa in the second chorus).

Music video

The Rocket Sneaker PV features Ai in stop-motion frames as the camera goes around a path of frozen figures of her doing everyday things. During the chorus, many of her begin to sing in unison. At the end of it, the very last Ai starts to move around, revealing that the path is a loop, and then she starts to go around the path, as the other Ai's have vanished.

Despite its status as an A-side song, One × Time doesn't have a video.

CD + DVD covers

Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

Release Chart Peak Position First Week Sales Sales Total Chart Run
May 21, 2008 Oricon Daily Charts 2
Oricon Weekly Charts 4 30,382 44,428 7 weeks
Oricon Yearly Charts

References

  1. News & Info|大塚 愛(おおつか あい) Official WebSite


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