Platinum 900 -- Let's Boogie The Night

 

What was that famous lyric from that Prince hit? "So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999".

Maybe that's the point behind Platinum 900's "Let's Boogie The Night", a track from the 1990s City Pop band's final to date album "Free (at last)" released in that seminal year of 1999. KKP contributor HRLE92, aka Island Fantasia on YouTube, was the first writer to talk about this underrated Tokyo band, consisting of vocalist Naoko Sakata (坂田直子), guitarist and bassist Kazuhiko Nishimura (西村一彦), and keyboardist Hiroshi Iihoshi (飯星裕史), and he's the one behind the primer for Platinum 900 so you ought to take a gander at his Christmas Day 2020 article.

But getting back to "Let's Boogie The Night", HRLE92 did give his own opinions on this nostalgic Platinum 900 look at disco but I also wanted to put in my two cents as well since I've been enjoying the track. As he stated, the song feels like one last dance with that special someone on the lighted tiles in the club, but if I can add some more context, perhaps that dance is taking place in the milieu of a reunion. Yep, that's right. Perhaps it's a 20th-anniversary reunion of those late 70s high schoolers, now grown up and perhaps grown out, and some of those former couples have gotten together for one more fling...on the floor, that is. The boogie that Sakata, Nishimura and Iihoshi are putting out isn't quite as frenetic which is perfect for the alumni now but all that disco flavour is still in there to bring back the good memories. Just one more for the road.