Wotako -- Daite (GET A CLUE)（抱いて）

 

The first time I heard "Daite (GET A CLUE)" (Hold Me), I figured that it must have been something from the late 1980s thanks to that specific type of funk done in a New Jack Swing style. Well, I was slightly off there; the song was a part of Wotako's（詩子）second of three albums "Yes" from June 1991. 

Wotako reminds me of a couple of other female R&B singers from around the same time, GWINKO and Cindy. I gather that all three of them were embracing their Janet Jackson. Regardless, "Daite" is a snazzy affair with the beat and the sharp horns blasting away. It's too bad that I couldn't nail down who was behind the songwriting. The J-Wiki article for Wotako only lists in "Yes" that several big names were involved in the words and music such as Shiro Sagisu（鷺巣詩郎）, Shun Taguchi（田口俊）and Masamichi Sugi（杉真理）.

From her mid-teens, Wotako, whose real name is supposedly Utako Kida（木田詩子）according to Mojim, began to learn jazz dancing and then set up an amateur girls' band before debuting with her solo single "Runner" in 1988. In addition to those three albums, she released a total of eight singles up to 1992.