In the last several weeks, I've been able to introduce singer-songwriter Maimi Tanaka（田中マイミ）and singer-actress Chie Kobayashi（小林千絵）onto KKP. Tanaka, as I've mentioned before, is famous for coming up with the Don Quixote jingle while Kobayashi is an Osaka celebrity who I debuted onto the blog with her folksy "Hotel Osaka"（ホテルOSAKA）. It's just too bad that my most recent article for Tanaka, the only video showing off her 1981 "Namida no Lonely Boy"（涙のロンリー・ボーイ）has been taken offline for the usual copyright reasons.
Still, I can show off a project that involved both Tanaka and Kobayashi. The latter's follow-up single to "Hotel Osaka" is "Kimagure My Love" (My Capricious Love) was released in July 1986 and it was written and composed by Tanaka. With arrangement by Shigeru Suzuki（鈴木茂）, this is a more lighthearted tune in comparison to the slightly heavier "Hotel Osaka"; in fact, I think it almost approaches an aidoru tone although Kobayashi was never treated as such.
I can't help but wonder if this song was in anyway inspired by the 1984 to 1987 Weekly Shōnen Jump manga きまぐれオレンジ☆ロード ?
ReplyDeleteYou know...knowing how much Japanese media and the corporate world love buzzwords, I wouldn't be surprised if "kimagure" was slapped onto a number of things in the mid-80s because of the manga and then the anime.
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