Earlier this year, I got to find out about singer-songwriter Anna Takeuchi（竹内アンナ）who I've seen on a couple of programs including an episode of "Uta Con"（うたコン）, and then via YouTube. It was such that I devoted an article to her 2022 album "TICKETS".
I think that this particular song by Takeuchi was something that I found on kinuzure's "Tamaranaku, AOR Kayo"（たまらなく、AOR歌謡...Irresistably, AOR Kayo） website devoted to City Pop and all of those light n' mellow AOR tunes (I also discovered kroi's "Atami" there, too, last month). "Ride on Weekend" hails from the singer's first album "Matousic" from March 2020. Today is J-Urban Contemporary Friday on KKP, and although ultimately, I felt that "Ride on Weekend" was a pop song instead of a City Pop or AOR number, it still has some good groove in its arrangement. Lyrically, it's all about joyfully getting together with that significant other on those precious days off and simply doing the usual weekend stuff.
"Ride on Weekend" was used as the theme song for the dramedy "Arimura Kasumi no Satsukyu"（有村架純の撮休...Kasumi Arimura's Shooting Days Off） on the satellite TV station WOWOW which had its time in Spring 2020. It had an interesting concept, kinda like the late actor/comedian Garry Shandling's "It's Garry Shandling's Show" in the late 1980s; actress Arimura played herself on her days off from a set during filming of some show or movie and finds herself in a number of situations every week with other actors playing folks like her boyfriend and mother.
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