Welcome to another Urban Contemporary Friday on "Kayo Kyoku Plus". I would have started earlier but I had to watch the finale for Season 3 of "Star Trek: Picard". Not a dry eye in the house.😉
Anyways, why don't we start off with some sunny and summery Margaritaville-type music such as singer-songwriter Yosui Inoue's（井上陽水）"Feminist"? A track from his September 1979 7th album "Sneaker Dancer"（スニーカーダンサー）, I should also add that there is some disco in there, too. Either way, it comes off as a travel-friendly City Pop that was written and composed by Inoue with Katsu Hoshi（星勝）providing the arrangement.
Looking at those lyrics, it sounds like Inoue is singing from the point of view of a footloose and fancy-free lady who's not much for feminists but does like her pianists. She likes to keep things simple and fun. Maybe that was indeed the atmosphere back in the late 1970s going into the early 1980s. As for the album itself, "Sneaker Dancer" hit No. 3 on Oricon.
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