Serani Poji -- Smiley wo Sagashite（スマイリーを探して）

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The final Tuesday of the month and it's possible or probable that folks are already getting weary of the work week. I hear you and will try to alleviate the situation here as best as I can.

Commenter Brian Mitchell once professed his love for the whimsical in Japanese pop songs. They can often be on anything under the sun whether it be a beloved bowl of steaming ramen or a bear that can't stand medical checkups. I'd go along with that.

And we have another lovely prime example here thanks to Serani Poji（セラニポージ）and her "Smiley wo Sagashite" (Finding Smiley or Where's Smiley?) from her 2002 album "one-room survival" which shares space with "Pipo Pipo"（ぴぽぴぽ）, the basis of my second article on the whispery singer-songwriter all the way back in 2018. Compared to the French pop/Shibuya-kei of "Pipo Pipo", Poji's delivery is less breathy and the arrangement takes things into a more Bacharach direction as the singer gives out her story of trying to find her imaginary smiley face friend although it seems like she's enjoying the search just as much as her re-discovery. It's a happy-go-lucky upbeat tune that could put a bit more of a skip into any commuter's step to and from work.