Omanko

"Omanko" is a song written by Sky Ferreira. The song appears as track six on Ferreira's debut album, Night Time, My Time.

Background
The song titled was revealed by Ferreira via a Facebook post on September 4, 2013. On October 8, 2013, Ferreira posted a preview of the song on her Instagram.

The song's title is a Japanese noun to describe the woman’s primary sexual organ, an unmentionable word in Japanese media and public dialogue.

In an interview with Pitchfork, Ferreira talked about the song: ""Justin [Raisen] and I were messing around, and we were like, ‘We like Suicide, let’s do a Suicide song for fun.’ Then we were like, ‘Wait, it’s actually kind of good.’ So we put it on the record.""

Music video
On December 19th, 2014, a video was posted on the official DIIV YouTube account with a description that read "Happy Holidays from Cole and Sky". The video consisted of "silly homemade videos of Ferreira spliced with footage of her onstage performances" in a lo-fi quality. The video was later taken off of YouTube by a copyright claim from Universal Music Group. It has since been re-uploaded on the internet by fans.

Live performances
The song was performed numerous times on Ferreira's Night Time, My Time tour in 2013.

Trivia

 * The song was omitted from the Japanse version of the album, most likely due to the meaning and social implications of the word omanko.

Credits

 * Written By: Justin Raisen, Sky Ferreira & Ariel Rechtshaid
 * Assistant Recording Engineer: Jeremiah Raisen
 * Vocals: Jeremiah Raisen & Sky Ferreira
 * Programmer: Chris Kasych
 * Bass: Justin Raisen
 * Additional Vocals: Justin Raisen
 * Keyboards: Justin Raisen
 * Engineer: Justin Raisen
 * Mixer: Justin Raisen
 * Editor: Nick Rowe
 * Assistant Mixer: Mark Santangelo
 * Co-Producer: Justin Raisen
 * Recorded At: White Bronco Studios, Highland Park, CA
 * Release Date: October 29, 2013