Miho Nakayama -- Keep Awake

 

Well, it looked like morning in Saitama but obviously from the timestamp in the lower-right hand corner, it was an afternoon in Saitama instead. A February morning, to be exact, so the trees weren't exactly filled with green leaves at that point. Still, it may have been pleasant to wake up to this sort of scene if you were sleeping on the pedestrian bridge.

I've found this 1990s Miho Nakayama（中山美穂）tune when she was out of the aidoru view and simply a full-fledged pop singer and thespian. "Keep Awake" is a track from her June 1993 album "Wagamama na Actress"（わがままな あくとれす...Selfish Actress）, and as written by Miporin herself with Julia behind the music, it's about a saucy morning-after situation when a bit of comforting by one party onto another the previous night metamorphosed into something more complicated and perhaps happier. Now what do they do? Cut to commercial.

Yup, I did get some of that 1990s City Pop vibe with some further assistance from the New Jack Swing beat in the arrangement. It's always interesting hearing how Miporin did beyond her time with Toshiki Kadomatsu（角松敏生）. As for "Wagamama na Actress", it peaked at No. 4 on Oricon.