Hi-Fi Set -- Platonic Shimasho（プラトニックしましょ）

 

Hope you are having a good weekend out there. Over here in the Greater Toronto Area, we may be getting our first major snowfall this season tomorrow with about an inch of the white stuff coming down.

As soon as I heard the music, I figured that this Hi-Fi Set（ハイ・ファイ・セット）song was probably from the 1980s, and sure enough, "Platonic Shimasho", whose official English title is "Platonic Loving", was the vocal group's 25th single from May 1988 as well as the opening track from their 16th album "Eyebrow" from March of that year.

It's a pretty happy shuffle which can be considered to be on the borderline between the sophisti-pop of Bubble Era Japan and straight pop and was composed by Masamichi Sugi（杉真理）with Hiroshi Shinkawa's（新川博）arrangement. The lyrics by Shun Taguchi（田口俊）have one-half of a couple suggesting that, y'know, maybe things were better between the two of them when they were buddies rather than lovers. Perhaps it's time to dial things back down romantically. The song certainly sounds like it could have been a theme song for a trendy drama about that very subject.