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lead=yes is the ninth single by Japanese musician hide, the second to bear the hide with Spread Beaver name, released on May 13, 1998, eleven days after his death. It debuted at number 1 on the Oricon Singles Chart and was the 11th best-selling single of the year, being certified Million by the RIAJ. It was also named "Song of the Year" at the 13th Japan Gold Disc Awards.
On November 22, 2006, the "Pink Spider" single was re-released. On December 8, 2010, it was re-released again as part of the third releases in "The Devolution Project", which was a release of hide's original eleven singles on picture disc vinyl.
Music journalist Showgun Fuyu called "Pink Spider" the ultimate example of the musical concept of "catchy without being pop". He described it as a heavy rock song that utilizes down-tuning and a heavy intro riff, and incorporates elements of industrial rock and groove metal. As such, he wrote that without the catchiness of the "Pinku supaidā, ikitai nā" chorus, it never would have become a million-selling hit.
In 2011, a jukebox musical based on and featuring hide's music was created, it was named Pink Spider after the song. It ran from March 8 to the 27 at the Tokyo Globe Theater and was then brought to Fukuoka, Kobe, Nagoya, Niigata, Sendai, and Sapporo in April.
Nu metal band Rize covered this song and released it as their single "Pink Spider" in 2006. Rize performed their version live at the hide memorial summit on May 3, 2008, and the following day X Japan covered it live with Sugizo and Shinya Yamada of Luna Sea.
It was also covered by heidi. on the compilation Crush! -90's V-Rock Best Hit Cover Songs-, which was released on January 26, 2011, and features current visual kei bands covering songs from bands that were important to the '90s visual kei movement.
defspiral covered it for their 2011 maxi-single "Reply -Tribute to hide-", which also included the band's interpretations of three other hide songs. hide had signed the members' previous band, Transtic Nerve, to his label Lemoned Plant shortly before his death in 1998.
Flow was covered the song during their special fanclub limited live 26ers NaNaNa Night in 2012.
Koda Kumi, one of the best-selling Japanese artists of all-time, included a cover on her 2013 album Color the Cover. Her recording of the song debuted on J-Wave on January 24. The music video is an adaptation of the manga series Buffalo Gonin Musume. Early in her career, Koda performed at the hide museum in 2002. Her version was included on the hide tribute album Tribute VI -Female Spirits-, which was released on December 18, 2013.
The track was covered by Sadie for the Tribute II -Visual Spirits- tribute album and by Kiryu for Tribute III -Visual Spirits-, both albums were released on July 3, 2013.
For Tribute VII -Rock Spirits-, released on December 18, 2013, Spread Beaver members Joe, INA and Chirolyn teamed up with Pata and Shame to record a new version of the song under the name The Pink Spiders.
Luna Sea covered "Pink Spider" at the first day of their rock festival, Lunatic Fest on June 27, 2015. Their guitarist Inoran later included a cover on his August 2015 solo album Beautiful Now.
Miyavi covered the song for the June 6, 2018 Tribute Impulse album.
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