I barely remember her since I was only a toddler at the time, but Twiggy is a British model and actress who set cameras and the fashion world ablaze in the 1960s thanks to that thin appearance, short hair and large doe eyes. Happy to hear that she's still around at the age of 75.
So, it's not a surprise at all that a Pizzicato Five song used her name twice for the title. "Twiggy, Twiggy" is a track on the band's September 1991 5th album, "Josei Joui Jidai"（女性上位時代...This Year's Girl）, and it's definitely an up-and-at-'em Shibuya-kei tune with timpani and dance-luring rhythms (including a barrage of orchestra hits) along with the Divine Ms. Maki Nomiya（野宮真貴） singing sweetly in our ears. The big surprise though is that it wasn't Yasuharu Konishi（小西康陽） behind words and music for "Twiggy, Twiggy" (although he was behind them for most of the other tracks); it was actually 1970s City Pop chanteuse Nanako Sato（佐藤奈々子）taking care of those.
I'll be honest...the music video with Nomiya and perhaps Konishi and other member Keitaro Takanami（高浪慶太郎）had me so mesmerized as I was about to write this article that when my screen suddenly went all crazy eights necessitating me to shut down and reboot my computer, I had assumed that it was all part of the P5 "Twiggy, Twiggy" experience. Well, no it wasn't. And I took a good look at the security protocols. I'm hoping that what happened was just one of those glitches of an aging unit. But yeah, it's quite the song.
Whenever I think of Twiggy, I think of her reference in Namie Amuro's song, "New Look." Which speaking of, the song got a new revival recently because the girl group Misamo did a cover of it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reminding me of that song. I hadn't heard it in years. I'm surprised that the music video has stayed up on YouTube for so long, considering that I was accustomed to seeing Amuro videos get taken down like wallpaper.
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