Welcome to the final week of November 2024. Hope you are doing well wherever you are. It's cool and cloudy out there and it looks like we may be getting the first signs of flurries for this season, as terrifying as that may sound to a lot of my fellow Torontonians. Anyways, as a minor-key segue to this first song of this business week on KKP, I do have to say that writer and director J. J. Abrams really had a fetish for his lens flares and one of the more egregious examples was with his take on "Star Trek" in 2009. I got the feeling that the special effects budget was higher than it should have been because of them.
Now, with "Sayonara Mr. J. J.", which is a track on Yumi Takigawa's（多岐川裕美）"Sayo"（小夜） from 1979, this obviously has nothing to do with the lens flare-happy Abrams who was all of thirteen probably when the album was released. Nope, this Mr. J.J. is merely a love 'em-and-leave 'em cad whose latest victim and lover has quietly, firmly and even playfully shut the door on any more shenanigans with the guy.
Written by Machiko Ryu（竜真知子）and composed by bassist Tsugutoshi Goto（後藤次利）, "Sayonara Mr. J.J." is more into the straight pop rather than the City Pop of "Gozen Rei-ji no Koibito"（午前０時の恋人） which was not only the last Takigawa song that I posted but the track mate for "Sayonara Mr. J.J.". Still, the arrangement is pretty refined although I think the beat is a little too fast for it to be considered Fashion Music and the overall upbeat feeling is that the lady involved is more in "no harm, no foul" mode rather than being crushed and heartbroken.
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