Well, we're in the homestretch now at seven day's worth of sleeps before Christmas. I was playing around with the Bing AI to see if I could get some lovely Christmas Town images (Unionville would be our local one in the Greater Toronto Area), and I could get at least a couple of them. This one seems to have that pleasant mixture of contemporary and old-fashioned with a café at the corner.
I was also searching around to see if there were any aidoru Xmas tunes within the last fifty years or so, and I got lucky with AKB48's "Totteoki Christmas" (Special Christmas). I say lucky because the video is set in one of those happy and shiny Christmas Towns. To be honest, I half-expected a KFC to pop up in one corner but then we'd have copyright issues and the like, wouldn't we?
Anyways, "Totteoki Christmas" was a track on all of the iterations of AKB48's 29th single, "Eien Pressure"（永遠プレッシャー...Eternal Pressure） from December 2012. Of course, written by Yasushi Akimoto（秋元康）and composed this time by Kazunori Watanabe（渡辺和紀）, the song is a typically jingle bell-happy tune about a young lady wanting to spend that romantic Yuletide with her boyfriend. For all those veteran AKB48 fans out there, watching the music video above should bring plenty of nostalgic feelings with a lot of AKB48 members from those days showing up in appropriate Christmas garb. And isn't it nice to hear a Japanese Christmas tune that isn't all about heartbreak?
"Eien Pressure" was another No. 1 hit for the group and despite it being released in December, it quickly became the 5th-ranked single for 2012. If I'm not mistaken, I've only had one other AKB48 Xmas song up on the blog, and that would be the earlier "Anata to Christmas Eve"（あなたとクリスマスイブ）.
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