Rocket Sneaker / One × Time

Infobox Single
Name = ロケットスニーカー / One × Time
Rocket Sneaker / One × Time


Artist = Ai Otsuka
from Album =
B-side = Sora to Kujira (空とくじら)
Released = May 21, 2008
Format = CD, CD+DVD
Recorded = 2008
Genre = J-Pop
Length = 21:17
Label = Avex Trax
Writer = Ai Otsuka
Producer =
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "Pocket"
(2007)
This single = "Rocket Sneaker / One × Time"
(2008)
Next single = "Kurage, Nagareboshi"
(2008)
Misc = Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate cover


Lower caption = The CD Cover __NOTOC__

"Rocket Sneaker / One × Time" is Ai Otsuka's 17th (18th overall) single released under the avex trax label. It is her first single released in 2008, on May 21. [ [http://www.avexnet.or.jp/ai/news/080307.html News & Info｜大塚 愛（おおつか あい） Official WebSite ] ]

"Rocket Sneaker / One × Time" has been certified Gold by [http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/gold/200806.html RIAJ] for shipment of 100,000 copies . However, it is her lowest selling single.

Tracklisting

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# One × Time
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# (Instrumental)
# One × Time (Instrumental)

Rocket Sneaker is a piano-driven tune, reminiscent of rag-time music. It describes saying "thank you" to the Earth before going off it, but remembering that one is always "chikyuukko (nihongo|chikyuukko|地球っ子|Earth child)". One × Time is a more mature love song, describing feelings of true love. It is lyrically confusing, but Ai revealed that it is from the viewpoint of a clock. Sora to Kujira is more of rock/pop song describing a whale that returns to the sky to join its mama (papa in the second chorus).

Music Video

The Rocket Sneaker PV features Ai in stop-motion frames as the camera goes around a path of frozen figures of her doing everyday things. During the chorus, many of her begin to sing in unison. At the end of it, the very last Ai starts to move around, revealing that the path is a loop, and then she starts to go around the path, as the other Ai's have vanished.

Despite its status as an A-side song, One × Time does not (yet?) have a video.

CD + DVD covers

Charts

Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

References