Shima: "Don't Wanna Die Young" ft. Calica
SHIMA is a singer, producer, and engineer from Tokyo, Japan. With a Japanese mother and an American father, SHIMA belongs to two cultures and writes lyrics in both English and Japanese. SHIMA began making music on GarageBand in high school when she received her father’s old MacBook. She later studied Music Engineering and Computer Engineering in college, and worked as a software engineer for about two years before quitting to pursue music full-time.
Currently based in Los Angeles, Shima in a collaboration with Calica has released the luminous and animated all-female pop creation entitled "Don't Wanna Die Young" .
While both residing in Tokyo, Shima and her co-writer Calica studied music together in college, and were inspired to write this song based on similar toxic relationships they had. For Calica, it was a boyfriend and for Shima, it was a roommate. The song is a commentary on the "life fast die young" mentality that plagues the music industry, and how easily you can get sucked into it via fun and wild yet careless and toxic people. Despite the heavy subject, the track is upbeat and hopeful, as leaving people can be seen as a new beginning rather than an end.
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