Well, the Winter Solstice arrived at around 10 am here yesterday morning, so we had the shortest day of the year. The good news of course is that now the days are going to get progressively longer until June. Even better is that Christmas is now in the homestretch. I've basically completed this year's Xmas shopping. Just a couple of more items and I'll be done.
80s aidoru Yoko Minamino（南野陽子）was pretty ambitious when she put out an album which was not only her first one with a Christmas theme but also one that was a concept creation. Titled "Snowflakes", it was released in December 1988 and each track covered the following things: dreams, hope, tears, sadness, joy, loneliness and love. Mind you, there are eight tracks so a couple of them shared one of those concepts.
I'm pretty confident in my guess that the penultimate track on "Snowflakes" takes care of the "joy" theme. "Lift no Shita de Aimashou" (Let's Meet Under the Lift) was written by Chinfa Kan（康珍化）, composed by Minoru Komorita（小森田実）and arranged by Mitsuo Hagita（萩田光男）and neatly covers the two things that occupy a lot of young Japanese minds during this special time of year: Christmas and skiing. There's probably nothing better than enjoying the Holidays while shushing down the slopes at resorts such as Naeba. And yup, this song is just perfect for Nanno's effervescently skippy vocal stylings. The album itself reached No. 2 on Oricon.
I wonder iYoko Minamino always wore those winter clothes when performing this song? If so I would imagine she would be hot with all the studio lights beaming down on her.
ReplyDeleteHello, Brian. Yep, I would imagine that she would be mandated to wear the coat whenever she sang the song in front of the cameras. Not an easy life being an aidoru.
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