Naoko Kawai -- Kuchibiru no Privacy（唇のプライバシー）

 

I remember when I wrote up Naoko Kawai's（河合奈保子）1980 "Ohkina Mori no Chiisana O-uchi"（大きな森の小さなお家）on Sunday May 31st 2015. I reported that the day before, the Humidex had hit a steamy 35 degrees Celsius but that Sunday showed a massive plummet in temperature down to a single-digit 9 degrees. Well, guess what? Yesterday, we had a -29-degree C wind chill factor but today's high will be a relatively tropical +3 degrees. 

And yep, here is another Naoko Kawai single. Her 18th go is "Kuchibiru no Privacy" (Privacy of the Lips) is another one of those weirdly-titled aidoru tunes that perhaps are still plentiful even today. It was released in August 1984, and it's a fairly rat-a-tat speedy song punctuated with an electric guitar about the drama that ensues following a sudden kiss a young lady experiences.

Masao Urino（売野雅勇）took care of the lyrics with Kyohei Tsutsumi（筒美京平）behind the melody and Shiro Sagisu（鷺巣詩郎）handling the arrangement. It hit No. 4 on the Oricon weeklies and ended up as the 76th-ranked single of the year while winning a number of awards including a Gold Prize at the Japan Record Awards. Kawai also got her invitation to the NHK Kohaku Utagassen for her fourth consecutive appearance at the end of 1984 to perform "Kuchibiru no Privacy".