Born in Japan and raised in London, Rina Sawayama is a singer-songwriter and model whose music is a blend of electro-pop, house music, and metal. This song is from her eponymous debut album.
The song finds Sawayama grappling with feelings of guilt after falling out with a once-close friend. Don't ask me where I've been Been avoiding everything 'Cause I'm a bad friend Sawayama wrote the track after finding out through Facebook that her childhood best friend had just had a baby.
The first verse details a trip that Sawayama and her once-close friend took to Tokyo in 2012. We ran through the bright Tokyo lights, nothing to lose Summer of 2012, burnt in my mind Hot, crazy, and drunk, five in a room Singing our hearts out to Carly, sweat in our eyes The pair visited the same karaoke room that Sophia Coppola shot in the Lost in Translation movie. There, they got drunk and danced to Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe." Sawayama told Genius it "was a wild full circle moment" as frequent Carly Rae collaborator Kyle Shearer produced "Bad Friend."
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