Rina Sawayama Says Pop Music Became a 'Way to Fit in' at School as a Japanese Immigrant

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Rina Sawayama Says Pop Music Became a 'Way to Fit in' at School as a Japanese Immigrant
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Britney, Gaga, and Gwen Stefani helped rinasawayama connect — and fit in — with her white classmates after her family immigrated to London from Japan.

, the “Hold the Girl” star shared how the music allowed her to connect with her peers before being fluent in English.. “If you’re new to that school or whatever, it can really connect you to the rest of the students.” She said she’d sometimes create imaginary girl groups to connect with her classmates at the Catholic school she attended.— that Sawayama found healing for her “inner child,” whom she says was gaslit into “not believing in [her] own truth.

Sawayama spoke about her track “Send My Love to John,” inspired by a real-life experience of a queer friend who wasn’t immediately accepted by their family. With it, Sawayama wanted to give an “empathetic view” of parents who immigrated to America “and wish so many things for their child that never worked out.”

“I hope that song can set a lot of people free, in terms of the people who have never said sorry to them or who will never see them for the beautiful human being that they are,” she said. “I think there’s a lot of people who carry that with them, [feeling like] they represent embarrassment or shame to others. I think those people deserve a sorry.”

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