After all of these decades of seeing Tom Cruise as the world's most amazing counterintelligence agent doing all that daring stuff such as hanging off a plane or flying a helicopter into a mountain (I was almost convinced that he was going to have a fight with a villain on the International Space Station in the last couple of "Mission: Impossible" movies), my earliest memories of him still evoke that iconic dance in "Risky Business" back in the 1980s. At the time, little did I know that this fellow was going to become the No. 1 box office guy.
Well, I was reminded of Cruise cruising on that smooth wooden floor when I watched the video for Kirinji's（キリンジ）"Room Dancer" which came out as a digital single on Halloween 2025. No rock n' roll here, though. It's a young lass who's tripping the light fantastic in her apartment but then takes it out on the road as far as Antarctica, and it's all to the familiar smooth and refined Kirinji beat (perked up with some Motown feeling). They're all joined by singer-songwriter Tomomi Oda（小田朋美）who made her first appearance on KKP through a more Gundam route. Both Takaki Horigome（堀込高樹）and Oda worked on words and music.
Initially, when I took a gander at the video, I'd thought that it was Wild Child SUZUKA from the song and dance group Atarashii Gakko no Leaders（新しい学校のリーダーズ）who was dancing all about. However, as it turns out, the young lady here is Miki Ayane who is a model and a staffer at a vintage store in Harajuku. "Room Dancer" can also be found on Kirinji's latest album "Town Beat" which came out in January this year.
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