Ami Ozaki & Akira Okazawa -- Bad Boy, Bad Girl

 

I have to say that singer-songwriter Ami Ozaki（尾崎亜美）was about as imaginative as Yumi Matsutoya（松任谷由実）when it came to the design of her album covers. One example is the one for her August 1983 album "Miracle" which hit No. 20 on Oricon. I mean, can anyone psychoanalyze this one?\

"Bad Boy, Bad Girl" is one track on "Miracle" which is surprisingly steamy for a Japanese pop song of the 1980s. I have heard some Mood Kayo tunes at karaoke that can get rather liberal with the sex quotient (along with the soft porn videos to go along with them) but I think this might be one of the only times that I've heard something like this in a regular pop tune, although no one in American R&B or hip-hop will need to drop their jaws in awe here.

Ozaki was responsible for words, music and arrangement with "Bad Boy, Bad Girl" (as she was for all of the other tracks on "Miracle") and she does a duet here with jazz bassist Akira Okazawa（岡沢章）who's got some of Hiro Tsunoda（つのだ☆ひろ）vibes in his vocals. The melody has that somewhat woozy mixture of nocturnal pop and reggae rhythms thrumming throughout as if a lot of alcohol (and perhaps other stuff) were being imbibed in the storyline of the song. I guess whatever happened in this setting probably stayed in this setting.