Mia Masuda -- Mou Ichido（もう一度）

 

Last weekend, we were watching a variety show via Jme and it was focusing on the Little Korea of Tokyo, the Shin-Okubo area north of Shinjuku on the Yamanote Line. I've been there a few times myself, of course, to have good ol' hearty yakiniku but I had no idea that it's become quite a popular area for sweets. There were the Korean confections but it seems as if some of the establishments in Shin-Okubo have become quite enamored with some really tall parfaits. This also reminded me of the above photo that I've supplied. A couple of my friends went to Japan many years ago and perhaps this had been shot in Nara where they got a full load of tall parfaits.

Anyways, I have to say that's quite a fetching photo of aidoru Mia Masuda（増田未亜）on her 4th and final album "Boys & Girls" from April 1991. I would think that she's going out on some date back in the 1950s in the guy's Ford Thunderbird. One of the tracks from "Boys & Girls" is "Mou Ichido" (Once More) which is a pleasant mid-tempo tune created by composer Kanji Ishikawa（石川Kanji）and lyricist Arisu Sato（佐藤ありす）. 

There's actually nothing 50s or doo-wop at all in the arrangement for "Mou Ichido". It's just a contemporary aidoru song by Masuda with the usual 1990s keyboard instrumentation, but hey, we can still imagine Masuda and her beau sharing a malted or a tall parfait at the local diner.