Glimpse Of Us

Album

Smithereens

Label

Warner Music

Genre

Adult contemporary

Composer(s)

George Miller;Joel Castillo;Alexis Kesselman;Connor McDonough;Riley McDonough

Entered Chart

Jun 25, 2022

Peak Date

Jul 2, 2022

Released

10 June 2022

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Warner Music

Here, Joji sings about moving on with a new girlfriend after a breakup. He acknowledges she's helped ease his misery, but the singer still misses his former lover. When Joji looks into her eyes, he sees a "glimpse of" his ex. He hopes she feels the same way when she's with her new partner. Joji wrote "Glimpse Of Us" with the brothers Connor and Riley McDonough of the American pop-rock band Before You Exit, along with Joel Castillo and Idarose. Connor and Riley McDonough's other credits include "Someone's Someone" by Monsta X and "Save Room For Us" by Tinashe. Connor McDonough also produced the track. Joji released "Glimpse of Us" on June 10, 2022 as his first musical offering since his second studio album, Nectar. "Glimpse of Us" became Joji's first Top 10 single on the Hot 100 thanks in large part to its popularity on TikTok. Creators used the song as a soundtrack to boyfriend/girlfriend-themed videos. Dan Streit (Charli XCX's "Forever," Major Lazer's "Jump") directed the video. Shot on a Sony DCR-HC32 miniDV across multiple states and edited from approximately 15 hours of footage, it shows images of race cars, horses, police harassment, derelict living, and much more. "Joji had an idea for making a video that would be hand-held, shaky, where you're following a group of kids and there's lots of fast cutting and destruction," explained the director to Billboard. "He listed off some ideas, like maybe there'd be drifting and things on fire, it was pretty loose. We could do whatever we wanted as long as it fit that framework." Streit wanted all the images to feel totally real, not just a compilation of crazy scenes. "The emotion of the song and its lyrics deserved more of a narrative than just chaos and destruction set to the song," he said. "So I found a good, cheap camera that we could get a bunch of to send around to cool subjects. And so certain ones worked and others didn't, but the ideas evolved as we went along." "Glimpse Of Us" topped the singles chart in several countries, including Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines and Singapore. When it reached #1 in Australia, Joji became the second Japanese artist to have a chart-topping single there, following Kyu Sakamoto's "Sukiyaki" in 1963.

She'd take the world off my shoulders
If it was ever hard to move
She'd turn the rain to a rainbow
When I was living in the blue
Why then, if she is so perfect
Do I still wish that it was you?
Perfect don't mean that it's working
So what can I do? (Ooh)

When you're out of sight
In my mind

'Cause sometimes I look in her eyes
And that's where I find a glimpse of us
And I try to fall for her touch
But I'm thinking of the way it was
Said I'm fine and said I moved on
I'm only here passing time in her arms
Hoping I'll find
A glimpse of us

Tell me he savors your glory
Does he laugh the way I did?
Is this a part of your story?
One that I had never lived
Maybe one day you'll feel lonely
And in his eyes, you'll get a glimpse
Maybe you'll start slipping slowly
And find me again

When you're out of sight
In my mind

'Cause sometimes I look in her eyes
And that's where I find a glimpse of us
And I try to fall for her touch
But I'm thinking of the way it was
Said I'm fine and said I moved on
I'm only here passing time in her arms
Hoping I'll find
A glimpse of us

Ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh

'Cause sometimes I look in her eyes
And that's where I find a glimpse of us
And I try to fall for her touch
But I'm thinking of the way it was
Said I'm fine and said I moved on
I'm only here passing time in her arms
Hoping I'll find
A glimpse of us
Writer/s: Alexis