is the debut single of the J-pop

J-pop

, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...

 singer Aya Matsuura

Aya Matsuura

is a Japanese pop singer from Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.-2000–2009: Hello! Project:Aya auditioned in 2000 for the fourth Morning Musume & Heike Michiyo Protegee Audition and was selected along with Sheki-Dol to become a part of what was later known as Hello! Project. It is a common...

, a Hello! Project

Hello! Project

is the umbrella name for all female idol Japanese pop recording artists collective that are under contract with the Up-Front Group. The "mothership" group of Hello! Project is the super-group Morning Musume. Hello! Project's current leader is Risa Niigaki, the leader of Morning Musume...

 solo artist, who started her career with this song, while she was about 15. It was released on April 11, 2001 under the Zetima

Zetima

is a Japanese record label owned by Up-Front Works, a Japanese entertainment management company. The label is handled by Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Outside Japan the label is most famous for releasing music by several participants in Hello! Project, the most famous...

 label and reached place 10 in the Oricon charts and charted for six weeks, selling 72,070 copies.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Tsunku

Tsunku

, better known professionally as , is a prolific Japanese record producer, songwriter, and vocalist.He is best known for having two major roles in the Japanese music landscape: first as the lead singer of the popular rock group Sharam Q, and now as the producer, primary composer, lyricist and main...

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3. "Dokki Doki! Love Mail" (Instrumental)

Music video

In the music video Matsuura Aya is shown singing in different places:

• dancing before a colorful painting
• standing and sitting on a small flying earth
• walking and dancing between small model skyscrapers (she later puts flowers on them)
• watching excited as flying ice creams pass
• jumping around in a room full of balloons
• being with two small versions of herself, one as angel, on as devil, who later turn into an army of devils and angels
• she with a dozen clones of her on small spaceships
• she giving her paper work to a robot (played by herself), who is shown doing the work for her
• on several TV screens all over big cities

External links

• Dokki Doki! Love Mail entry on the Up-Front Works official website
• ThePPN: Dokki Doki! Love Mail