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Friday, June 20, 2025

Mami Koyama -- Furui Handbag(古いハンドバッグ)

 


Never thought I would see the day that a song about an old handbag would get such the funky City Pop treatment, but as commenter Brian Mitchell has told me, the Japanese will write a song on virtually anything. I can certainly believe it.

Case in point is indeed "Furui Handbag" (Old Handbag) which was a track on singer and seiyuu Mami Koyama's(小山茉美)1985 album "Vivid". Sharing space with "Distance no Manatsu"(ディスタンスの真夏), the two songs also share the same composer Etsuko Yamakawa(山川恵津子), and my personal SOP has been that whenever I notice a new song that has Yamakawa's fingerprints on it, I investigate it! Sure enough, "Furui Handbag" has the urban funk and stylings of what would become the Bubble Era City Pop a year or so early. Goro Matsui(松井五郎)took care of the lyrics here and I can imagine that a young woman has had plenty of adventures with that handbag all throughout the town.

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