Easter is coming along the way so I figured that it was time for a rabbit song once more. So we've got Kayo Grace cuddling the bunnies.
Perhaps I can give the moral of the story right from the beginning: be careful of what you ask for. Back in early February, I noted that singer-songwriter Minoru Komorita（小森田実）was finally getting his own byline on a KKP article after just getting his deserved songwriting bona fides in Labels all these years, and then a few weeks ago, he popped up again as the lead singer for the 80s band Alpha. And today, he's back here again with his own third byline...you might say that he's multiplying like bunnies.
Strangely enough, that is the title of a perky little tune that he composed: "Bunny, Bunny" (2020) under a slightly altered form of his name...Minoru Comorita. The lyrics were written by Hiroshi Yamada who may just be the same fellow who had come up with the words for Mineko Nishikawa's（西川峰子）February 1977 "Guitar Nagashite Konbanwa"（ギター流して今晩わ）, a song that I featured on "Kayo Kyoku Plus" last night. Mind you, the name is a common one in Japan and I could only find the romaji form of the name under the YouTube video so he could also be a totally different Hiroshi Yamada.
Anyways, the music is a happy-go-lucky techno funk-boogie tune as Comorita sings seemingly in the style of Yasuyuki Okamura（岡村靖幸）. I have to admit though that I never thought that I would ever hear a nihilistic party tune with rabbits as the theme animal; the guy whose parents have left his mortal coil is now nonchalantly and hedonistically heading into the abyss...and singing the praises of Tokyo as well, so I gather that "Bunny, Bunny" can also be considered as a go-touchi song. Especially with that music video, I can say that all involved in the production could have sipped a bit of that absinthe of malice.
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