"Spring of Life" | ||||||||
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Single by Perfume | ||||||||
from the album Level3 | ||||||||
B-side | "Communication" | |||||||
Released | April 11, 2012 | |||||||
Format | CD single, digital download | |||||||
Recorded | 2012 | |||||||
Genre | Dance, pop | |||||||
Length | 3:49 | |||||||
Label | Universal J | |||||||
Writer(s) | Yasutaka Nakata | |||||||
Producer(s) | Yasutaka Nakata | |||||||
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"Spring of Life" is a song by Japanese girl group Perfume from their fourth studio album Level3 (2013). The song was released as the album's lead single on 11 April 2012. It was written, composed and produced by Yasutaka Nakata. The song is a dance track, which features instrumentation from synthesizers and keyboards. "Spring of Life" is the group's first offering after departing from Tokuma Japan Communications and signing with Universal Music Japan.
"Spring of Life" received positive reviews from music critics, whom complimented the song's production and composition. Despite peaking at number two on the Oricon Singles Chart, it became the group's third single to top the Billboard Japan Hot 100. An album version of the track was re-composed and re-arranged by Nakata for the parent album. Yusuke Tanaka directed the accompanying music video for the single, which shows Perfume as robots and dancing with fairy lights around them. Perfume have performed the song in a number of live performances throughout Japan.
Japanese producer and Capsule musician Yasutaka Nakata had written, arranged and composed the song. Nakata has collaborated with all of Perfume's records and songs from 2003 onwards. It was recorded in Tokyo, Japan and was mixed and mastered by Nakata. It is a dance song that fuses musical elements of techno, electronic music and pop music, and incorporates instrumentation from a drum machine, synthesizer and keyboards. This was Nataka's first single to be produced within the label since Meg's single "Passport/Paris" in 2010.