trf -- Do What You Want

 

Considering how much I (and much of the Japanese music lovers) got caught up in the wave of trf as part of the Komuro Steamroller in the 1990s, I think I've covered pretty much all of the big hits that the dance-pop group had to offer such as "Boy Meets Girl" and "EZ DO DANCE". I may have missed that first year of trf bloom by landing in Japan at the end of 1994, but there were still a few more years of the group hitting the big time.

So, it's the case where I'm looking for some of the songs by the group that I never got to hear. And speaking of "EZ DO DANCE", I did come across their coupling song here called "Do What You Want". It is quite different for a number of reasons: 1) YU-KI is not the main vocalist, leaving the vocals to the other two female members, Etsu and Chiharu (although they don't seem all that prominent behind the mike, 2) who I think the main vocalist is happens to be Suzi Kim who used to sing for the eclectic band 99.99, and 3) all those dance synths have mostly been left at home.

In fact, I think "Do What You Want', which was written and composed by Tetsuya Komuro（小室哲哉）with Kim also working on the lyrics, sounds more like a New Age music think piece with the title being emanated like a mantra for free love. Most likely, listeners would be sitting in a yoga position rather than dancing it up at the clubs. As I said, it's quite the different song by trf.