Dear Lonely Girl

"Dear Lonely Girl"
"Dear Lonely Girl"
Single by Miliyah Kato
from the album Rose
Released	March 24, 2005
Genre	Pop; R&B;
Length	3:29
Label	Mastersix Foundation
Songwriter(s)	Marvin Gaye; Odell Brown; David Ritz; Takashi Matsumoto; Kyohei Tsutsumi; Miliyah Kato;
Producer(s)	Shingo.S;
Miliyah Kato singles chronology

"Dear Lonely Girl" (ディアロンリーガール, Dia Ronrī Gāru) is a song recorded by Japanese singer-songwriter Miliyah Kato for her debut album Rose. It was released as the album's third single on March 24, 2005. "Dear Lonely Girl" is considered an answer song to ECD's "ECD no Lonely Girl", from which it samples its structure.^[1] Both songs sample the melody of Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" and the hook of idol singer Yuri Satō's "Lonely Girl" (1983), which became the chorus of Kato's song.^[1]

The hook of Kato's "Dear Lonely Girl" involves her shouting out various feminine given names. These names are lifted from both Kato's real life, including the names of members of her entourage, and from fiction, namely character names from the premier cell phone novel series Deep Love.^[1]

Kato's song "Lipstick" (2015) was written from the perspective of the same protagonist, but ten years later.^[2] In 2017, Kato released the song "Shinyaku Dear Lonely Girl" (新約ディアロンリーガール, "Dear Lonely Girl: New Testament") featuring ECD, in which she samples "Dear Lonely Girl".^[3]

Track listing

CD single

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Dear Lonely Girl" (ディアロンリーガール Dia Ronrī Gāru)	Marvin Gaye Odell Brown David Ritz Takashi Matsumoto Kyohei Tsutsumi Miliyah Kato	Shingo.S	3:29
2.	"Dreaming Under the Moon"	Kato	Maestro-T	4:59
3.	"Ooh...Baby"	Kato	Shingo.S	3:34
4.	"Dear Lonely Girl" (Instrumental)	Gaye Brown Ritz Matsumoto Tsutsumi Kato	Shingo.S	3:28
Total length:				15:28

Charts

Chart (2005)	Peak position	Sales
Japan Weekly Singles (Oricon)^[4]	15	50,000

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "3rdシングル『ロンリーガール』リリース！ 16歳・新世代ディーバを直撃INTERVIEW". Tokyo Headline. March 2005. Archived from the original on April 4, 2005. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
^ "加藤ミリヤ代表曲「ディアロンリーガール」の10年後を描いた「リップスティック」／インタビュー". Excite. November 28, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
^ "加藤ミリヤ"全ての女子達に捧ぐ"新SGにHIP-HOPのレジェンド＆若き才能が参加". Billboard Japan. November 6, 2017. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
^ "ディアロンリーガール加藤ミリヤ ORICON NEWS". Oricon. Retrieved December 10, 2017.

[tokyoheadline-1] "3rdシングル『ロンリーガール』リリース！ 16歳・新世代ディーバを直撃INTERVIEW". Tokyo Headline. March 2005. Archived from the original on April 4, 2005. Retrieved December 10, 2017.

[excite-2] "加藤ミリヤ代表曲「ディアロンリーガール」の10年後を描いた「リップスティック」／インタビュー". Excite. November 28, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2017.

[billboard-3] "加藤ミリヤ"全ての女子達に捧ぐ"新SGにHIP-HOPのレジェンド＆若き才能が参加". Billboard Japan. November 6, 2017. Retrieved December 10, 2017.

[oricon-4] "ディアロンリーガール加藤ミリヤ ORICON NEWS". Oricon. Retrieved December 10, 2017.

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