Well, it is a Monday so I gather that a lot of folks out there are brooding about going into another work week. Then again, this is a holiday week for most of North America with my country celebrating Canada Day tomorrow and then the United States partying up the 4th of July in a few days.
Anyways, the setting in this song has none of that. In fact, I'd say that there is a lot of moroseness in a Japanese bar somewhere when it comes to husky-voiced Mina Aoe's（青江三奈）14th single "Anata ni Naita" (I Cried for You). Released in March 1969, once again it's one of those songs that I can't really distinguish between an enka and Mood Kayo. I've always known Aoe as a Mood Kayo expert and the subject matter of heartbreak and loneliness is perfect for a song of that genre but at the same time, the rhythm of that melody also sounds quite traditionally enka. In any case, the songwriters here are lyricist Teruko Takiguichi（滝口暉子）and composer Toshio Miyagawa（宮川としを）.
According to recordcity.jp 「あなたに泣いた」 is classified as :
ReplyDeleteジャンル:演歌/歌謡曲 / Electronic and スタイル :バラード, 歌謡曲. So in the end it looks we can have our cake and eat it too!
I'm not sure how it got classified into electronic unless someone made their own cover of it through synths.
DeleteYeah, the electronic genre being applied to this song or to the rest of the album doesn't make sense. Anywhere is the page I was looking at: https://www.recordcity.jp/ja/catalog/35183
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