SpeciAlisa | ||||
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Studio album by Alisa Mizuki | ||||
Released | May 25, 2011 | |||
Recorded | 2011 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 57:08 | |||
Label | Avex Tune | |||
Producer | , , , , Tetsuya Komuro, Lecca, , Masato Nakamura, , , Amii Ozaki, Isao Takao, , Uta | |||
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Singles from SpeciAlisa | ||||
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SpeciAlisa is the sixth studio album by Japanese recording artist Alisa Mizuki, released through Avex Tune on May 25, 2011. It is Mizuki's second studio album with Avex and first in twelve years, since Innocence (1999). The title is a portmanteau of the words "special" and "Alisa." The album was released in commemoration of Mizuki's twenty-year anniversary.
Mizuki began planning the release of her sixth studio album in 2010. The theme for the album being bonds, Mizuki invited her musician friends and favorite artists to collaborate with her on the record.Miwa Yoshida and Masato Nakamura of Dreams Come True, whose music has in the past been used in movies and commercials starring Mizuki, wrote "Anata ga Waraeba," one of the album's lead tracks. Nakamura commented, "we wanted the song to have that obvious DoriKamu sound that even we haven't done in a while." Frequent collaborator Tetsuya Komuro, who wrote Mizuki's greatest hit "Too Shy Shy Boy!," and Amii Ozaki, who penned Mizuki's debut single "Densetsu no Shōjo," also composed songs for the album.
SpeciAlisa also features collaborations with vocalist , Bonnie Pink, , former Princess Princess vocalist , Show Ayanocozey (DJ OZMA) from Kishidan, Wise, Tarantula from Spontania, Lecca, rapper , from Def Tech, Kyōko Koizumi, and . Kawamura's contribution, "Hoshi no Hate," which served as theme song for the TBS drama Hanawake no Yon-shimai, starring Mizuki herself, was released as the album's sole single on August 17, 2011.