After having a rather large roast chicken dinner with all of the trimmings earlier tonight, my metabolism is having an inner war involving all that protein and carbs against the cup of strong coffee. Who will win? Stay tuned.
However, I will try to support the coffee side by writing up another article for KKP. Let's take things forward into time to the end of 2018 when funky aidoru group Dance for philosophy（フィロソフィーのダンス）released their 23rd digital single "Love Variation with Scoobie Do/Heuristic City" in December, and I'm looking at the lightly soulful "Heuristic City" here. Written by Sho Yamamoto（ヤマモトショウ）and composed by Gento Miyano（宮野弦士）, it looks like the video has the group going off on a fun road trip. Meanwhile the lyrics are more wistful and melancholy as a woman talks about the impending breakup between her and a guy.
I'm no computer scientist so when I saw that word "heuristic", I began thinking of all things circuit-like but tracking down the definition for the word, I came across the following from The Oxford Dictionary: 1. enabling someone to discover or learn something for themselves. 2. (computers) proceeding to a solution by trial and error or by rules that are only loosely defined. From these definitions, I can assume that the woman sees her surrounding city (maybe not the one that she's originally from) as the setting where she first learned the whole process of love, from falling in and falling out of it. The wisdom that she's learned is sad, precious and invaluable.
Great song. I know you have done a couple entries for the band, Ryokuoushoku Shakai but they released a new album last week called "pink blue" and they released a music video for the title track and I think it's up your alley. It kinda has an old-school feel to it.
ReplyDeleteToday's song has got a late 70's or very very early 80's feel to it.
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