Iyo Matsumoto -- TV no Kuni kara Kirakira（TVの国からキラキラ）

 

I know that Robert Altman's "The Player" was still a decade away from being released in theatres, but I couldn't help but think of this Hollywood movie satirizing Hollywood when I first listened to this single by aidoru Iyo Matsumoto（松本伊代）.

Her 3rd one, to be specific, "TV no Kuni kara Kirakira" (Gleaming from the Land of TV) was released in May 1982. It seems as if lyricist Shigesato Itoi（糸井重里）, composer Kyohei Tsutsumi（筒美京平）and arranger Shiro Sagisu（鷺巣詩郎）all decided to concoct a tongue-in-cheek aidoru tune about the whole fantastical mystique surrounding an 80s aidoru while having the lass herself wonder where the line between reality and illusion appears.

Iyo-chan certainly sells it with her puppy-dog happy nasal delivery and Sagisu's arrangement is just as peppy with all of the horns and strings bouncing about. The song fits what the teenybopper entertainers were all about during the Golden Age of the Aidoru: supremely kawaii, bouncy and flouncy. "TV no Kuni kara Kirakira" hit No. 15 on Oricon.