![]() I will share these with my wife so that she may better understand my reaction she knows I’m a softie when it comes to stories of love □ As a romantic at heart, I thank you for sharing the translation with the English speaking world. Many happy memories growing up in the 60s and 70s, and this song brings back both happy and sad moments. I looked them up some years ago and finally understood why they touched me so even as a child. But I grew up hearing this song and always loved the lyrics and detected the mournful undertone without understanding the lyrics. This song came out in North America (Canadian here) in 1963, When l was 1 □□. I then explained the part about walking with his face to the sky and missing his love. She saw me choke up and tear up…I could not speak until after the song was over, and I’d gone away a few minutes to compose myself. We were listening to Sirius XM this afternoon and this song came on, before the DJ named it, I said “Sukiyaki” out loud, and my wife asked what the song was about. 幸せは空の上に(しあわせはそらにうえに)Shiawase wa sora no ue niĭo you want to be able to read the lyrics in Hiragana? Try my complete Hiragana lesson! I did sing the song in Japanese in the video, so please try singing along with me! ? ?⠀įind below the lyrics of “Ue o muite arukou” in Japanese and English. One of the fun ways to learn a language is to learn from a song! ? As you sing along, you naturally learn some vocabulary, train your listening comprehension and pronunciation. ![]() They say the title “Sukiyaki” was picked only because it was short, catchy, and recognizably Japanese in English-speaking countries.⠀ Sukiyaki Song – Lyrics ? Sukiyaki is the name of a Japanese hot pot dish and has nothing to do with the meaning of the song!⠀ This is such a famous song in my country and I was truly surprised to learn that the song is called “Sukiyaki” outside Japan. It reached the top of the Billboard charts in the US in 1963.⠀ The Sukiyaki Song “Ue o muite arukou” was released in 1961 in Japan. The original title of the song in Japanese is 上を向いて歩こう(うえをむいてあるこう)”Ue o muite arukou” by Kyu Sakamoto. Songs twice its length have failed to achieve the grandiosity I Hear a Symphony did, and so I truly hope this song will be as immortalized in pop culture as it has been in my heart.Do you know this Japanese song – Sukiyaki Song? I Hear a Symphony is the true display of passion, love, musicianship, and orchestration all combined into one-hundred-and-eighty-five seconds. I wasn’t aware of Fry’s music when this was released, and so I don’t know how well it did upon release, but I feel like the sudden hype and attention to not only this song but the entire album is absolutely justified. This is a song that I’m so glad got a second life through Tik Tok. It’s a statement of Fry’s genius, pure and simple. It combines some elements previously showcased, such as Cory’s love for that Disney/Broadway style, as well as his utilization of strings, which were drip fed from the very beginning of the album all the way into I Hear a Symphony. From 80s inspired power pop dance tunes, to ballads, to indie/electronic mellow songs, then to this. ![]() Though that track didn’t close out the album (I mean, let’s be real, A Night at the Opera ended with Bohemian Rhapsody, God Save the Queen was only a little epilogue to that masterpiece), Cody Fry’s opus truly ends the journey that is Flying. To me, I Hear a Symphony had the same energy as songs like Bohemian Rhapsody. What an absolutely beautiful way to end the song. And then, in the most elegant way, Cody Fry sings out the same line that closed the first verse: “And now I hear a symphony,” alone with a piano. In the most Disney fashion possible, Cody reintroduces the melody for a third time soaring out into the actual climax, which will give you goosebumps from head to toe. The strings sing along with the vocals before having another break, this time bringing the song to what seems like the climax, but later listeners will find out is just a tease. The movement it implies from that first solo vocal line foreshadows the chromatic nature of the track, which is reeled back with an orchestra break before the second verse. It’s elegant, catchy, and very complex in its harmonial interpretation. ![]() ![]() On a long car ride, we sat in silence simply soaking in the album.Īnd then came the last track, I Hear a Symphony. In a surprising grand return in 2021, 2017’s song I Hear a Symphony showed a new audience the beauty of Cody Fry’s genius in this simple yet complex three-minute magnum opus.īeing the disconnected individual that I am, I didn’t discover I Hear a Symphony through Tik Tok, but my girlfriend did, which led her to show me Cody’s entire album containing the song titled Flying. ![]()
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