Looking up the information for this particular song and singer GWINKO, I've realized that the lass was just a few days shy of 15 when her second album "Teenage Beat" was released in June 1988. And she was already singing and kick-stepping it up a notch.
Probably a lot of City Pop and J-R&B fans had been wondering if there were ever a duet between a couple of singers within the genre, and sure enough, there was something close to it. GWINKO and Cindy got together to do the first and title track from the album although it's been listed that Cindy was more on backup chorus rather than an equal partner. "Teenage Beat" was written by Akane Tsukinose（月の瀬 茜）and composed by Masatoshi Nishimura（西村麻聡）. As for the type of R&B, I'm not quite sure...would it be funk or a milder form of New Jack Swing? There is something rather Janet Jackson about it.
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