OK, first off...Iyo Matsumoto's（松本伊代）"Shyness Boy" has nothing to do with Anri's（杏里） "Shyness Boy". The latter is one of my very favourite City Pop songs created by Toshiki Kadomatsu（角松敏生）for her December 1983 "Timely!!" album. Meanwhile, the former is not one of my favourite Matsumoto songs since it rather chaotically stumbles out of the gate although it does settle down quickly into something that perhaps an early-career Akina Nakamori（中森明菜）would tackle.
Actually, "Shyness Boy" is Matsumoto's 12th single from September 1984 and it was written and composed by Ami Ozaki（尾崎亜美）. The arrangement by Shingo Kobayashi（小林信吾）is rather weird with its mix of instruments coming out everywhere from the woodwork to get their words in and then this introspective 80s guitar plucking away from a moody American pop song of that decade. Ozaki's lyrics, however, have some firmer hold as a young lady is absolutely grinding her teeth to a powder in frustration while she's waiting for her male buddy to finally confess his love for her. Still, she loves him deeply enough that she will continue to bide her time.
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