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Supposedly, we're in the final day of what has been a short heat wave here in Toronto. The public swimming pools are now open, but on the first day of the tropical temperatures and humidity, several of them weren't, much to panting people's chagrin due to sudden staffing issues which got the mayor in some hot water. But things are much more copacetic now.
About a month ago, I introduced a duo by the name of Sonic Coaster Pop which put forth their brand of technopop for a few years between 1999 and 2002. However, maybe that time frame is mistaken since they also put out an album in 2004 titled "Super Miracle Circuit".
In any case, one track from this album is "Summer in the Pool". My first article on SoCoPo dealt with their "Usagi-chan Dancin'!"（ウサギチャンダンシン!）which brought together their technopop, some Shibuya-kei and maybe even some Precure theme excitement. "Summer in the Pool" is more attenuated in that it sounds like a very pure and crystalline synth number, something that one would hear in a video game. The pool water would be pink and the sky would be orange.
I am not going to lie. I had to look up "copacetic” as this is the first time I run across the word. Anyway, 「Summer in the Pool」does have some of the excitement a Precure theme might have, but a Precure theme would usually aim to be more immediately singable with the lyrics being much clearer and more articulate.
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