Yudai Suzuki -- Something Never Change

 

Probably one of the bigger surprises that I have received while working on "Kayo Kyoku Plus" for nearly thirteen years is the fact that Studio Ghibli's musical maestro Joe Hisaishi（久石譲）once had his own City Pop phase. Almost three years ago, I was somewhat flabbergasted at the composer with a full head of hair and sunglasses making like any street player on the roads and avenues of Tokyo as he sang "Night City" in the late 1980s.

Well, he didn't stop with himself when it came to the urban contemporary during those razzle-dazzle days and nights of the Bubble Era. Hisaishi also arranged City Pop singer Yudai Suzuki's（鈴木雄大）11th single from October 1987, "Something Never Change". Written and composed by the singer, it's another strutting and funky number on the streets of Japan's largest city, and just imagine Totoro and his minions in sunglasses and attitude shuffling down Chuo Dori as if there were no tomorrow.