Music artist The Japanese House debuts new single “:)”, which is about falling in love with someone in a long distance relationship. She shares her story about the song to give her audience an insight about how falling in love can be through various forms. According to an interview with BBC Radio 6 Music, The Japanese House states that her living situation with her fiance was long distance, “…She lived in Detroit, and I was living in London. But I was essentially just falling in love with her, over the internet. And I wrote this song, I’d had no sleep because I’d been talking to her on the phone all night, and I was, kind of, living on her timezone hours, and I went into the session, and this song kind of poured out of me.” (BBC Radio 6 Music)

Consequence Sound notes that Bain ends off with “I was in some sort of frenzy. Turns out I did buy the plane tickets, now we’re engaged.” (Consequence Sound) Her overall tone with this song expresses her deep admiration of her engagement through the melody written in the chords of the song. The Japanese House continued to build off of their successful 2023 with a strong musical set with performances at Coachella on April 12th, 2024. This performance followed the release of their latest album in 2023. On top of it all, The Japanese House shows no signs of slowing down with a packed US tour.