Naoko Kawai -- Aoi Shisen（青い視線）

 

I put this particular celebratory birthday photo of Naoko Kawai（河合奈保子）up and then checked when her birthday was. Well, as it turns out, I'm still about a couple of months away from the big 62 for one of the 1980s' most representative aidoru.

Anyways, as I've always said on KKP, never forget about those B-sides. And for Kawai today, I've checked out the B-side for her 2nd single "Young Boy"（ヤング・ボーイ）released in August 1980. "Aoi Shisen" (Blue Gaze) is a slightly less dramatic song than its A-side, but it's still a spirited number that has hints of disco and summer-side fun...kinda like a lot of other aidoru tunes from those days. Written by Akira Ito（伊藤アキラ）and composed/arranged by Makoto Kawaguchi（川口真）, those Naoko-chan vocals soar like crazy and I do like it when the synthesizer warps from one headphone to another a couple of times. 

As is the case with "Young Boy", "Aoi Shisen" deals with some innocent romantic sturm und drang. A boy and a girl who have feelings for each other are still literally and figuratively distanced from each other at some beach locale...neither willing to make that forward move and even having problems trying to initiate even the most furtive eye contact. Talk about hard to get! 😳 I think they both need Orange Mimosas to take the edge off.