Not quite sure whether this song is a mix of Ian Thomas/Santana's "Hold On" and Hiroko Yakushimaru's（薬師丸博子）"Sailor Fuku to Kikanjuu"（セーラー服と機関銃）.
As for the latter song, the songwriters were Etsuko Kisugi（来生えつこ）and her brother singer/composer Takao Kisugi（来生たかお）, and not surprisingly, those two were the same people behind Maiko Ito's（伊藤麻衣子）"Motto Shinjitsu" (More Truth). Just as with Yakushimaru's famous entry, "Motto Shinjitsu" has that intriguing combination of gentility and drama, a characteristic of the siblings' work, and I think it's been the thing that has elevated a number of aidoru songs, although I'm not sure how this one did on the charts.
With arrangement by Tatsushi Umegaki（梅垣達志）, Ito's 11th single from August 1985 is about a woman's insistence to her significant other that she wants an honest love, not burdened by the supposedly fake tropes of TV-based romance. Honesty is the best policy...or the name of a Billy Joel classic.
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