I know that there have been many types of aidoru out there over the decades such as baradoru（バラドル...variety show aidoru）, underground aidoru and mamadoru（ママドル...aidoru who have become mothers）. Of course, there have been sexy aidoru which I had observed to have been more of a 1990s phenomenon with voluptuous groups such as C.C. Girls.
Apparently though there was a sexy aidoru from the late 1980s by the name of Shiho Sakamoto（坂本志穂）or as she was known in the geinokai, SHIHO (I'm just using her full name to distinguish her from some of the other Shihos in Labels). Born in Miyazaki Prefecture in 1968, she made her debut in front of the mike with "Gypsy Queen" in 1988 although this is a different song from the Akina Nakamori（中森明菜）hit from about a year earlier.
Her third single "Girigiri Yuuwaku"（ぎりぎり・誘惑...Last Minute Temptation） was released in April 1989 but the song that I'm focusing here is the coupling tune "Secret Dancer". Written by Yumi Morita（森田由美）and composed by Ken Sato（佐藤健）, it's quite the punchy dance-pop song (with those 80s orchestra hits) with some nice brass, and yep, I do get those disco dance-in-Roppongi vibes. "Girigiri Yuuwaku" may have been her highest-ranking single, reaching No. 92 on Oricon while selling four thousand copies.
According to her J-Wiki profile, SHIHO probably got the sexy aidoru label from appearing in discos all over the country while wearing a prominent thong during the 1990s. Up to 1994, she released 11 singles and 6 albums.
I like the music arrangement and instrument selection is this one.
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