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Monday, May 24, 2021

GREAT3 -- Ai no Kankei(愛の関係)

 

Man, do I like the above video for GREAT3's "Ai no Kankei" (The Connection of Love). It's all so stylish especially with the three members Akito Katayose(片寄明人), Kenichi Shirane(白根賢一)and jan dressed in black all huddled around the microphone (kinda too bad that the video seems to cut off some forty seconds before the end, though).

I also like the songwriting by lyricist Katayose and composer Shirane for the title track of their 9th studio album from March 2014. Of course, there is the habit-forming funk but I also enjoy the way that the guys skip through those lyrics. Never thought I would ever hear any act trip the light fantastic in such a sexy way delivering the first two lines of the hiragana syllabary. Even the lyrics as they are set up on "Uta-Net" reflect the skippy delivery. As for the album "Ai no Kankei", that reached No. 66 on Oricon.

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