Perhaps the post-Holiday blues are now finally starting to kick in since everyone is definitely heading to work and school. Doesn't help that we have a freezing rain warning for my neck of the woods.
Earlier today, Joana wrote about Yufu Terashima's（寺嶋由芙）"Kimi ni Toropitaina"（君にトロピタイナ）, a tribute to some 80s Eurobeat, the sort of music that I used to listen on remixes and on the dance floor back in university. We got talking about Terashima's old group BiS, and how some of the former members have each branched out into their own genres: Terashima = 80s, Pour Lui = rock and then Tentenko = technopop.
Then I realized that it's been a while since I wrote about Tentenko's（テンテンコ）self-titled album from last year (2018). One other "Tentenko" track that I didn't talk about in that article is "Kiken na Highway" (Dangerous Highway) which was a 2017 single for her. Keeping to that technopop esthetic, Tentenko provided the words while T. Kosugi and Sung Y Park took care of the music which incorporates a bit of that 60s biker gang/detective show music as the singer goes about taking off on that potentially perilous yet exhilarating ride away from home and probably a humdrum lifestyle. I do like that saxophone and lowdown car-drive beat showing some of that possible menace while the synths keep things nice and spacey. Nice touch with the claps, too.
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