Let's welcome back KKP AI representative aidoru Kayo Grace Kyoku to "Kayo Kyoku Plus" for the first time in 2024! Looks like she's had her Holidays and is now all rested up.
This might be the first entry for aidoru Mamiko Tayama（田山真美子）but she already has representation here on the blog because she was also a member of the aidoru trio Rakutenshi（楽天使）which itself was a cog in the big group Nanatsuboshi（ななつ星）. I provided a few articles on Nanatsuboshi for the Xmas holidays including their "Juu-ni-gatsu no Tokubetsu na Yoru"（12月の特別な夜）.
Born in Iwate Prefecture, Tayama got her beginnings in show business as a child actor in 1986 but then broke into her aidoru career in 1989 with "Seishun no Evergreen"（青春のEVERGREEN...Youthful Evergreen）. Her discography isn't too extensive; she put out five singles and two original albums including her second album "Uta Shosetsu ~ Cynalyric"（詩小説（シナリリック）...Poetry Novel） from February 1991. One of the tracks is "Hajimete no Asagaeri" (First Time Going Home in the Morning) which has a darn catchy and cheerful hook by Jun Sato（佐藤準）and there's something about the arrangement which has me thinking of some PSY-S tunes. The other thing about the melody is that the chorus also reminds me of Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke".
I couldn't find Keiko Aso's（麻生圭子）lyrics online but the title hints at that giddiness and embarrassment from heading home from the boyfriend's place for the first time. Maybe I'm just being naïve but I'm a little surprised that an aidoru tune actually covers this. The first time I actually came across the term of "asagaeri" was through Dreams Come True's "Ureshihazukashi Asagaeri" (うれしはずかし朝帰り) which had been released a couple of years earlier.
はじめての朝帰り is really catchy! Although, most Parents may not want to hear their teenage daughters coming in the early morning singing such a tune.
ReplyDeleteNo, I dare say that a lot of parents probably wouldn't want their kids under 18 to emulate the lyrics here (or even 25).
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