I've been a fan of Japanese popular music for 40 years, and have managed to collect a lot of material during that time. So I decided I wanted to talk about Showa Era music with like-minded fans. My particular era is the 70s and 80s (thus the "kayo kyoku"). The plus part includes a number of songs and artists from the last 30 years and also the early kayo. So, let's talk about New Music, aidoru, City Pop and enka.
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I would like to give credit where credit is due. Videos are from YouTube and other sources such as NicoNico while Oricon rankings and other information are translated from the Japanese Wikipedia unless noted.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Yu Hayami/Meiko Nakahara -- Passion
I saw Yu Hayami（早見優） performing her 14th single, "Passion" on the Kohaku Utagassen. Unlike her sunny, bippity-boppity breakthrough hit, "Natsu Iro no Nancy"（夏色のナンシー） from a few years back, Hayami went for a more disco-Anri sound with this song, written and composed by Meiko Nakahara（中原めいこ）. And on that year's Kohaku, she even eschewed the cute aidoru clothes for something that reminded me more of what Janet Jackson would wear a few years later for "Rhythm Nation".
The song was released in August 1985 but wouldn't end up in the Top 100 of the 1985 Oricon charts.
Here is Nakahara's own take on the song.
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