Alive by ReoNa

It's difficult to choose a song to represent my second favourite singer, ReoNa. Her work ranges from pop to hard rock — not pop rock, but hard rock bordering on metal. It's worth noting that she is just the singer, occasionally playing an acoustic guitar.

For those only familiar with Western music, she might be similar to Vanessa Carlton or Jewel with her low singing and whispering and tomboyish, yet feminine mysterious persona.

If you dig this song but you want to know what the Japanese lines are in English, I'm not sure this one has translations. Her song "Nainai" (from the same album) absolutely does, but that song is Wednesday Addams weird — the video, but also the song itself. It was used in an anime series, Shadows House, which is way darker and more Gothic than Addams Family could have ever hoped to be. It's just straight up weird, a series about fae creatures called shadows which enslave humans that share their features (or they adapt to their pared slave? This isn't clear). It's super weird and dark and the song fits. This video has English subtitles you can enable. Beautiful music, but if you don't know Japanese (and I only know a little bit!) you're not gonna get the full meaning. So even without that — I just love the sound of her voice, and the music she makes. That whole album, HUMAN, is excellent. I listen to it at least 3-4 times a month.