I wrote about 80s aidoru Hiromi Miyano（宮野比呂美）last summer when I introduced the B-side to her debut single "Yokohama Gigolo"（横浜ジゴロ）, "Ame no Suspicion"（雨のサスピション）from July 1985. As I mentioned there, her recording career was brief, only lasting two singles.
Once again, I bring you another B-side from her 1986 2nd single,"Ao no Toki"（蒼の時刻...Blue Time）, "Hitorigoto Serenade" (Soliloquy Serenade). In comparison to the synthpop of "Ame no Suspicion", this B-side possesses more of the spicy and dramatic Latin flavour provided by Keiichi Oku（奥慶一）while Arisu Sato（佐藤ありす）is behind the lyrics. Also, I think Miyano here has given her delivery more of a flowing girlish wave, kinda like along the lines of Wink or an early-in-her-career higher-pitched Akina Nakamori（中森明菜）, although Oku's melody brings to mind some of Akemi Ishii's（石井明美）material at the time. Come to think of it, compared to the heavily made-up visage that was on the cover of her first single, Miyano looks more natural here.
In the near future, I will have to get onto those A-sides for Miyano. 😀 Maybe she wasn't the strongest singer but the B-sides, especially "Hitorigoto Serenade", haven't been too bad for me. I'm not really certain whether this would constitute a City Pop-tinged aidoru tune, but with that Latin in there, I think it could merit some feeling of the metropolis.
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