Dang! This song really gets funky considering that it has nothing to do with the cops or any street-level shenanigans in Shinjuku. "Hana no Joshikou Kazoe Uta" (Flower Girls' High School Counting Song) is the first single for late-70s aidoru Chieko Tani（谷ちえ子）which was released in June 1977. It's all about a teenaged girl who's grumbling in envy about specific classmates and then entire grades getting to enjoy the metropolitan life out there while she herself has to be the good girl stuck in the library. With that funky melody by Taiji Nakamura（中村泰士）which was then massaged by arranger Shunichi Makaino（馬飼野俊一）, I'd probably think that the heroine was also thinking about hitting the mean streets herself. Shinichi Ishihara（石原信一）took care of the lyrics.
Tani, whose real name is Chieko Sasaya（笹谷智恵子）, hails from Hokkaido and made her appearance on the NTV audition show "Star wa Tanjo!"（スター誕生!）. Including "Hana no Joshikou Kazoe Uta", she released four singles and one album up to the middle of 1978. She basically retired after that, but in 2012, when she held a reunion concert, she started up her singing career again with four more singles up to 2020. The singer also has experience in Japanese dance and min'yo, and her favourite singers are Shinichi Mori（森進一）, Sayuri Ishikawa（石川さゆり）and Tanya Tucker.
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