tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501670448657416824.post8510856042016542215..comments2024-03-29T01:59:32.065-04:00Comments on Kayo Kyoku Plus: Rie Sugimoto -- Yasuragi no Yubiwa (やすらぎのゆびわ)J-Canuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09551828383307840403noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501670448657416824.post-35590452330178500682016-08-26T19:46:59.131-04:002016-08-26T19:46:59.131-04:00Hi, Marcos.
Yeah, I cannot really see short bobbed...Hi, Marcos.<br />Yeah, I cannot really see short bobbed hair and frilly dresses coming back in for aidoru, no matter how nostalgic the Japanese are. Perhaps teen stars of the near future may go along the lines of how the Jackson 5 started...a bit more soul.J-Canuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09551828383307840403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501670448657416824.post-60169973413227940752016-08-25T22:49:55.447-04:002016-08-25T22:49:55.447-04:00Well, I don't think the underground status was...Well, I don't think the underground status was a problem to Sugimoto and her fans. She existed as a niche artist singing rearranged vocal versions of video game music, so there wasn't much for her to do in the mainstream circle.<br /><br />As for her fans, maybe they were more game otakus than other thing, so the underground status of their aidoru was a positive thing. For them, she probably had this kind of "pure aura" the an artist loses when it becomes a true mainstream aidoru.<br /><br />Taking a look at her, she was obviously very anachronic, even for 1992's standards. However, our perception is different in comparison to the one of people living at the time. We have history on our side, so we know how things turned out at the end. By 1992, I think lots of people still looked at the frilly aidoru thing as a lucrative thing, even though it's obvious for us now that any aidoru with that aesthetic and sound - or whatever is related to the classical 80s aidoru - would not take off at all.Marcos V.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09531398685057099974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501670448657416824.post-75225869338199184942016-08-24T19:35:07.173-04:002016-08-24T19:35:07.173-04:00Hi, Marcos.
Thanks for "Yasuragi no Yubiwa&q...Hi, Marcos.<br /><br />Thanks for "Yasuragi no Yubiwa". Yep, Sugimoto's voice isn't exactly too hearty but somehow Taniyama's music makes it work. Like you, I'm a sucker for a good piano arrangement.<br /><br />I've come across singer-songwriter Taniyama in a couple of books and even did one article on one of her ballads. She seems to have been well represented by her many albums and singles and yet I have heard very little of them. I guess she must be one of those singers who are in those underwater nine-tenths of my iceberg of Japanese popular music.<br /><br />You mentioned about her underground status as an aidoru. I wonder what it must have been like for her and her fans, supposing that she may have been one of the very last of the aidoru (at least, back in those days)?J-Canuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09551828383307840403noreply@blogger.com