"Order Made" | ||||
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Single by Radwimps | ||||
from the album | ||||
Released | January 23, 2008 | |||
Format | CD single, digital download | |||
Recorded | 2007 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 5:53 | |||
Label | EMI Music Japan | |||
Writer(s) | Yojiro Noda | |||
Producer(s) | Junji Zenki (executive producer) Ryō Takagi |
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"Order Made" (オーダーメイド Ōdā Meido?, "Tailor Made") is a song by Japanese rock band Radwimps, released on January 23, 2008, as the leading single a year before the band's sixth album, . The song was a commercial success, debuting at number one on Oricon's single charts, and at the time, becoming the band's most commercially successful song. The music video received several accolades from the MTV Video Music Awards and Space Shower Music Video Awards, including the best rock video award from each event.
The song is a mid-tempo rock ballad, mostly based around an arrangement of guitars and slowly performed drums. As the song progresses, background synths, drums and guitars build up in intensity, with more layers added for each verse. A minute before the song ends, the arrangement becomes a much more frantic rock arrangement. The final section refrains the original arrangement.
The lyrics detail someone musing over the idea that before they were born, they were given specific choices. Someone asked them if they would like to see the future or past, and he figures he picked the past, so that he could be a kind person, rather than a strong person, and to understand what memories truly mean. The person then asked him about his body, and planned to give him two arms, legs, mouths, ears, eyes, hearts, breasts and nostrils. He asked for just a single mouth, so that he couldn't argue with himself and could kiss only one person. The maker looks disappointed at this, then asked if a heart for each side of his chest would be good. He replied that he did not want a heart on his right side. The narrator believes that the first time he holds someone special against himself, he will feel the beating of his two hearts, so that apart the two people will lack something, and that people cannot live by themselves. The maker then gave one final choice, whether to have tears or not, pointing out that not having tears is not a big hindrance for many people. The narrator replied that he wants them, so that he can become a kind person and understand what is important to him. The maker asked what flavor, sour, salty, spicy or sweet, would he like his tears to be. The narrator asks the maker to have his face, just after he has finished crying, be shown to him with pride. The narrator finally asks the maker whether they have met before, because throughout the song (in the chorus), the narrator laments of a nostalgic feeling growing in his chest, and of memories and feelings he wants to forget but cannot.