milet -- Fly High

 

A little over a year ago, I covered a milet song for the first time via her "inside you" which she'd also performed on the special COVID-influenced 2020 Kohaku Utagassen. She does have a distinctive voice which makes her one that can be easily recognizable in pop music. It also sounded rather familiar when compared to other singers and I was wondering which singers. I finally thought milet's vocals rather blended the timbre of Alanis Morissette and the soar of Adele, but that's just my opinion.

Near the end of the year, milet showed up on comedian Sanma Akashiya's（明石家さんま）year-end special where she basically broke down in adorable embarrassment and hilarity after boasting that she could peel a hard-boiled egg lickety-split on an Olympic level and then failing miserably. Apparently, the egg never got the memo.

However, that's OK since her day job as a singer-songwriter is serving her much better. Strangely enough, since I've mentioned the Olympics, her "Fly High" (written and composed by her with TomoLow also helping out with the melody) has been selected as NHK's official song for the upcoming Winter Games in Beijing starting next week, although for some reason, it's been labeled as "The Winter Sports Theme Song" for the first time instead. 

For me, it doesn't quite reach the levels of the truly blood-pumping "Atsukunare"（熱くなれ）by Maki Ohguro（大黒摩季）for the 1996 Games in Atlanta, but "Fly High" has that appropriately Olympic-level inspiration within milet's vocals and arrangement. Also, I think that there is also a bit of "Lion King" flowing through its veins. Indeed, milet not only sang this on the Akashiya special but this was her contribution on her 2nd appearance on the Kohaku almost a month ago. It will be a track on her 2nd full album "visions" which will be released on February 2nd next week.

Ah, I did find her folly with the egg peeling. Head over to about 6:20 below. According to the poor lass, she'd actually practiced with six eggs beforehand.