Arguably, the late singer-songwriter Lily's（りりィ）most famous song is her 1974 "Watashi ga Naiteimasu"（わたしが泣いています）, and so I've usually treated her as a 1970s folk singer. However, as has happened to many singers in Japan during that decade, she also did some wholesale genre-crossing.
She does some fine honky-tonk rock here with "Good-By City", a track from her 1983 album "Say". In fact, I was a bit surprised by how she sounded because the song reminded me more of Linda Ronstadt's material back in the previous decade It's some good-time rock n' roll which was written by Lily and composed by Hiro Tsunoda（つのだ☆ひろ）, a person with a most gregarious personality who I usually associate with R&B. As for that album cover with those glossy lips, I frankly assumed with that design, the album was titled "Sexy" from the handwriting.
This song is too cool be about crying!
ReplyDeleteMaybe just a few tears in gratitude, perhaps?
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