Always nice to welcome Junko Yagami（八神純子）back to KKP especially on a day of City Pop. As soon as I heard the first few bars of this particular song, I figured that this must have been one of the Nagoya singer-songwriter's 1990s creations, and it has turned out to be so.
"Ai no Honoo" (definition is right on the byline) was a coupling song to Yagami's 29th single, the very wordy "Tatoe Kanawanai Yume Demo Kore de Ii"（たとえ叶わない夢でもこれでいい...Even If It's a Dream That Won't Come True, That's Fine） which was released in July 1993. While Yagami took care of the music, Yuuho Iwasato（岩里祐穂）provided the lyrics. Just from the certain synthesizers involved and a bit of Latin mixed into the arrangement, it did feel like something from out of the 1990s. If a B-side can sound like this cool, I would love to hear the A-side.
In my opinion, the beat doesn't match the song, or something else is happening that I can't explain.
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