Yuri Kunizane -- Midori no Express（緑のエクスプレス）

 

A few years ago, I introduced another one of those obscure aidoru from the 1980s, Yuri Kunizane（国実百合）, and her 6th single "Kitto..."（きっと...）from 1989.

Well, this is a track from her second album "The Seasons"（シーズンズ）from March 1989, "Midori no Express" (Green Express), and composed once more by Tetsuji Hayashi（林哲司）, it has that rollicking melody that could be called Eurobeat aidoru. It's music that I used to hear a fair bit from aidoru of that time period going into the 1990s on various variety shows when the teenyboppers showed up. Shun Taguchi（田口俊）came up with the lyrics about a woman barely making it onto what I assume is a Bullet Train, and maybe specifically, the Joetsu Shinkansen going from Tokyo to Niigata since that super-express had the green stripes. I would know since I traveled on it once a month between the megalopolis and Gunma Prefecture where I lived at the time.

After calling it a career in the early 1990s, Kunizane got married and became a therapist although according to J-Wiki, she resumed her work in music in 2015.