Happy Birthday, Miyavi!

The perfect song of yours to express how I feel right now would be Onpu no Tegami. That is, there's something that I want to say to you right now, more than anything, but I just can't put it into words. Unfortuntely, I am not a musician, so I can't make these words into notes. I'll try my best, my absolute best, to say it right.

You are really a wizard of sorts with music. Listening to your music, it's almost as if lyrics aren't needed to get your point across. The messages are clear and understandable in sound, and the words only echo what the music is already saying. And yet, you even add to the words by singing them in a voice packed with emotion, every syllable like the heartbeat of a living organism.

Being a writer, I usually appriciate music that has complex, hard to understand lyrics that you could only understand if you analyzed each line by itself. Contrastingly, your lyrics are beautifully simple, honest, and straight from the heart. An artist like you, who can write their lyrics and music in a such a straightforward way, as if to say "this is how I feel, and I don't need to say anything else", is a very admirable person.

In closing, Miyavi, your style is revolutionary. Never before have I heard of a musician who could wrap up complex stories and emotions into neat packages of music and words, and deliver it like you do.

Please continue to make awesome music in the future, and have a rockin' birthday!

With love and admiration,
Jill "Aoi" A.