Welcome to January 30th 2023! I'm happy to say that we have reached Kayo Kyoku Plus' 11th birthday today. Yup, eleven years ago today, the blog got started with Jun Horie's（堀江淳）"Memory Glass"（メモリーグラス）and since then, all of us have been through 9,391 articles (some of which are in dormant status due to no more videos for them). Supposedly, the traditional gift for people celebrating their 11th anniversary is steel with the popular gift being cutlery. I'll have to see whether I can fit in a new kayo with that theme later on today.
To commemorate the anniversary, I was looking about to find something with the theme of ELEVEN. I have to admit that it took a while but last night, I finally discovered that J-Pop's favourite group of mystery dentists turned into a successful band, GReeeeN, had the perfect song. Of course, that would be their "11", a track from their 8th original album "Ure D"（うれD）, released in April 2018. About as quirky and goofy as the founder of this blog, "11" has the band happily bouncing around within a melody of spacey technopop beeps and hip-pop bounces and exhortations as their lyrics encourage listeners to seek out new opportunities; after all, according to them, there are eleven dimensions out there. Why not take full advantage of them?
As for the unusual title, according to Natalie.mu via J-Wiki, "Ure D" refers to no longer being able to travel through happiness...or something like that. But the Japanese text goes like this: 「うれしいを通りこしてもはやうれD」If anyone can come up with a much better translation, let me know please. In any case, "Ure D" got as high as No. 3 on Oricon.
おめでTOH on eleven years!
ReplyDeleteThanks kindly, Saburo! Hope we can go on for a few more years at least.
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