We're already on April 30th as of this writing, and the tax filing deadline is here in Canada. Also on the COVID front locally...well, nope...not great numbers with over 3800 new cases today but the vaccinations are still plowing ahead and the government is beginning to consider possible re-openings, rightly or wrongly. Just to remind folks, I did get my first shot of Astra-Zeneca almost a couple of weeks ago and aside from some achiness in the first couple of days, I've been OK.
I've been saving this one up for publishing today since it's titled "Go-gatsu ni Naru made" (By May) and we are indeed hitting May 1st in less than 24 hours. Singer-songwriter Yasuha（泰葉）is behind this one but this time around, it's not a City Pop tune like her most famous creation, "Fly-Day Chinatown" (フライディ・チャイナタウン) from 1981. In fact, this is a very bouncy pop number composed by her, written by Toyohisa Araki（荒木とよひさ）and arranged by Akira Inoue（井上鑑）for her March 1983 4th album, "Reserved".
Possibly, Matthew Wilder's "Break My Stride" may have gotten into the ears and brains of many a Japanese pop composer, and the underlying rhythm by Yasuha has that resemblance to Wilder's magnum opus. However, "Break My Stride" wasn't released until August 1983 so there goes that theory although I think Pazz's "Minority" may be one of those songs. In any case, that happy keyboard bouncing also reminds me of the theme from "Thomas The Tank Engine".
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