B-side "Mokuren no Cream" Recorded 1999 Length 3:54 | Format 8cm single Genre Pop music, Pop-rock | |
Released January 27, 1999 (1999-01-27) | ||
"Cappuccino" (カプチーノ, Kapuchīno) is a single by Japanese entertainer Rie Tomosaka, released on January 27, 1999. "Cappuccino" and its B-side "Mokuren no Cream" were both written by musician Ringo Sheena. In 2014, Sheena released a cover of the song on her album Gyakuyunyū: Kōwankyoku, which reached number 98 on the Billboard Adult Alternative Chart.
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Background and development
"Cappuccino" was the lead single from her album Murasaki., released one month beforehand. Her previous album, Un, was produced by Yasushi Akimoto. Tomosaka had released two singles in 1998, "Koishiteru" and "Itoshii Toki." "Koishiteru" was produced by Seiji Kameda, who also worked on "Cappuccino."
"Cappuccino" and "Mokuren no Cream" were the second and third songs Ringo Sheena had produced for another musician, after the Ryoko Hirosue song "Private." Sheena worked extensively with Tomosaka, also writing the song "Shampoo" for Murasaki. and Tomosaka's next single "Shōjo Robot" (including its B-sides "Ikenai Ko" and "Nippon ni Umarete"). She worked together with Sheena again in 2009 on her post-hiatus album Toridori., with the songs "Tokai no Manner" and "Kodomo no Jōkei."
Sheena first performed "Cappuccino" live at her Jisaku Jien Nama Jitsuenkai concert on June 14, 1999. In 2014, Sheena released a cover of the song on her album Gyakuyunyū: Kōwankyoku.
Promotion and release
The song was used as an ending theme song for the NTV variety show TV Ojamanbō in 1999, a tie-up that had previously gone to the Ryoko Hirosue song "Private."
A music video was produced to promote the song. It features scenes of Tomosaka swinging on a neon pole in a black room, as well as scenes of her in a white room holding a lily.
Track listing
All tracks written by Ringo Sheena.