Los Angeles-via-NYC-via-Bengbu, China producer, songwriter, and DJ Alice Longyu Gao has dropped a new single called ‘Kanpai’. The track comes with an accompanying video directed by Olivia Aquilina. Check it out below.
Gao said of the new song in a press release:
My best friend Madison Emiko Love and I wrote this song three years ago. Her grandma is a Japanese immigrant and we always want to champion & plug our culture everywhere we go. We’ve been waiting to put this song out, cuz back then no one with power in western music realized the power of Asian pop culture, no one really cared to put Asian talents on the table. The material world was asleep cuz they didn’t see the money-benefits. ‘Kanpai’ means cheers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; the joyful vibe translates perfectly throughout the song. The braggy-docious, rap-y bridge part in the song is what I wish for, it’s not my reality yet. Last year was dark for me, and for everyone. But now it is time to regroup and restart, this song wakes me up in the morning, it reminds me that I came to this earth with a mission. I aspire to inspire and benefit other people’s lives. I do that through my art.
Earlier this year, Gao released the tracks ‘She Abunai’ (with Mura Masa and Bülow), ‘Legend’ (with Alice Glass), and ‘Underrated Popstar’.
