Dreams Come True -- go for it!

Dreams Come True -- go for it!

Gotta love that face of Miwa's. As you may be able to see from my photo above, I bought Dream Come True's 13th single at the bargain basement price of 100 yen at a CD rental shop which was trying to unload some of its wares. "go for it!" had come out in September 1993, so it was over a year before my arrival for my second stint as a working stiff in Japan. I think I got this copy some years afterward. If any of you Japanese pop fans are in the country and come across some tiny CD shop with the word SALE! or a flea market, make a beeline for that basket of discs and scrounge around. I'm sure you'll find something that you've always wanted.

"go for it!" is another fun-loving and joyful walk in Miwa Yoshida's（吉田美和） world. Written by Yoshida and composed by her and DCT leader Masato Nakamura（中村正人）, it's the band's telling of that old maxim "Opposites attract". She sings that despite all of the stuff that might keep a couple apart (and apparently, her significant other in the song might be from the U.K., considering the shout outs to Monty Python and Gerry Anderson), they will still go for that relationship and make it work.

(karaoke version)

The song was another No. 1 for the band, their 3rd of 6 consecutive No. 1s ranging from 1992 to late 1994. It was also the 16th-ranked song of the year, selling a little over a million copies. "go for it" also got onto DCT's 6th album, "Magic" released in December 1993, which ended up becoming the top album of 1994.