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Saturday, March 7, 2026

Original Love -- Wild Humanity(ワイルド・ヒューマニティー)

 

Although I know that cool-as-all-heck singer-songwriter Takao Tajima(田島貴男), aka Original Love, has continued to kick around up to the present day, I've usually covered his stuff from the good ol' days...namely the 1990s, for his discography including "Asahi no Ataru Michi"(朝日のあたる道). I did feature his "Zeroset"(ゼロセット)which was a much more recent single although that was still back in 2019.

Well, Tajima is still kicking butt thankfully, and he's got something to say about the whole AI thing. Last month, he released his latest digital single "Wild Humanity" which gets him to exhort to the fans to step aside from the artificial intelligence and the hyper-fast pace of life, and once again embrace that titular wild humanity. 

In fact, the video has him looking all fashionably iconoclastic and ecstatic about handling all those musical instruments and old-style tech (in areas including tree-filled areas called parks) and those old-style genres such as boogie and jazz. It's ironic that one of the more noticeable instruments happens to be a synthesizer (an analog one?), so maybe his message is not to totally abandon the AI/hi-tech but share the benefits of them and wild humanity together.

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