Recorded 2016 Label N46Div. | ||
B-side "Boku Dake no Hikari""Offshore Girl" (Type-A)"Inochi no Shinjitsu Musical" (Type-B)"Hakumai Sama" (Type-C)"Secret Graffiti" (Type-D)"Ikuate no Nai Bokutachi" (Regular) Released July 27, 2016 (2016-07-27) (Japan) Format CD single, digital download | ||
"Hadashi de Summer" (裸足でSummer, Barefoot Summer) is the 15th single by Japanese idol girl group Nogizaka46. It was released on July 27, 2016. The song became number-one on the weekly Oricon Singles Chart, with 728,189 copies sold. It was also number-one on the Billboard Japan Hot 100.
This single was released in 5 versions. Type-A, Type-B, Type-C, Type-D and a regular edition. Type-A includes Mai Shiraishi's solo song Offshore Girl and its music video was shot in Guam.
The center position in the choreography for the title song is held by Asuka Saitō. In the group's variety show Nogizaka Kōjichū, she visited Kyaiktiyo Pagoda in Myanmar where her mother's birth place and prayed for the hit of the single.
Music video
The music video for the title track was shot in Nago and Ginoza in Okinawa Prefecture. It was directed by Takeshi Maruyama who also directed their documentary film Kanashimi no Wasurekata: Documentary of Nogizaka46 in 2015.