Hiromi Go -- Kimi no Na wa Psycho（君の名はサイコ）

Your name is PSYCHO!

Yes, quite the line of romance to throw out on a first date...after which the next thing thrown will be a glass of that red wine.

And yet, that is the translation of a track from Hiromi Go's（郷ひろみ）"Hiromi-kyo no Hanzai"（比呂魅卿の犯罪）, his 21st album from April 1983. Judging from the titles of both the track and the album which translates as "Lord Hiromi's Crimes", and even the look of the cover, I take it that the folks behind the production of the album were going for something Halloween-y.

However, there is a nice feeling of urban contemporary with "Kimi no Na wa Psycho". Although I could hear the synths and a slight echo with Go's voice, I don't think it's so much a technopop tune than it is something in the City Pop genre. But no need for me to fret too much over that since it is Ryuichi Sakamoto（坂本龍一）who concocted and arranged the music (in fact, he was the sound producer for the entire album), and he's had plenty of experience in both genres. Shigesato Itoi（糸井重里）wrote the lyrics about a woman that Lord Hiromi may be simultaneously infatuated with and afraid of. The music is cool and the story might be just as cool...although as cool as a knife going between your ribs.