Well, seeing that I have just done a Miho Morikawa（森川美穂）song today, I felt that I should also provide another article on Miho Nakayama（中山美穂）since the last time she popped up on "Kayo Kyoku Plus" was June last year. But this isn't one of the danceable Toshiki Kadomatsu（角松敏生）hits by her.
Still, Miporin's 9th single "Hade!!!" (Flashy!!!) from March 1987 is plenty vibrant and happy late 80s aidoru music to match the title and three exclamation points. According to the J-Wiki article on the song, this was the final song of many songs that the combination of lyricist Takashi Matsumoto and composer Kyohei Tsutsumi（松本隆・筒美京平）provided for her. Motoki Funayama（船山基紀）arranged "Hade!!!" as that speeding sports car holding a young lady and her secret beau who has an excess of personality among other things.
One other piece of trivia that I found from the J-Wiki article is that when Nakayama and her staff made the announcement about "Hade!!!", they did so at a shopping mall somewhere in Chiba Prefecture which attracted about 10,000 fans. I can only hope that the various establishments there reaped up all the yen. The song went up to No. 2 on the charts and ended up as the 24th-ranked single for 1987.
The video below doesn't start with footage from that shopping mall mayhem but it's actually the first episode of the TBS comedy-drama "Mama wa Aidoru"（ママはアイドル...Mama is an Idol） starring Miporin herself. It's strangely meta in that her character's name is actually Miho Nakayama, a popular aidoru, but in-universe, it's a stage name for Yumi Nonomura（野々村裕美）who gets married to a widower with three kids. Perhaps much hilarity ensues.
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