Sayuri Date Has Released Her First Original Songs!

2024-09-10

Sayuri Date has released her first original songs today as part of the run up to her birthday event on September 30th!

She dropped a surprise announcement at 9:00pm JST on Sept. 7th with the information for the new songs, and that the songs would be available on streaming sites at midnight local time on September 10th! They will also be performed live at the event on her birthday (September 30th)!

The songs are titled 「1up!」 and 「ラブソング」 (love song)! They're both beautiful songs, upbeat and full of emotion, with lyrics filled with meaning!

Both songs are available now, please go listen to them on your favorite streaming service!

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This is a very momentous occasion for Sayurin. As she's mentioned in past talk and mc segments, she's struggled with confidence in her singing ability and essentially had to re-learn how to sing from scratch in order to sing professionally. She joined LoveLive! through a fan audition and wasn't trained or educated on singing professionally before that, causing her to grapple with a healthy case of imposter syndrome and comparing her singing to others. She truly loves singing, but during Liella!'s 3rd live tour she mentioned that she couldn't bring herself to say that singing was her specialty.

Since then, she's reached a level of confidence that enabled her to truly enjoy singing on stage. At the end of Liella!'s 4th live tour in August 2023, she mentioned that 4L was the first time she was able to stand on stage and simply have fun singing and performing. At her birthday event on September 30th, 2023 she remarked that she was surprised so many people came to see her sing as herself, and not as a part of LoveLive!. In the year since she's continued to grow in both singing ability and confidence, shining brightly on stage every time she's in front of her fans.

Sayurin mentioned on Instagram that she is still embarrassed when it comes to her singing, but was really happy hearing everyone's warm comments about her new songs! Please make sure to go listen to both songs! If you want to help cheer her on and support her original music, make sure to tweet your impressions via the hashtag #伊達さゆりBDパーティー on twitter!

A few of Sayurin's tweets about the announcement and songs (where she's very excited!):