I remember that one statement by one of the Southern All Stars（サザンオールスターズ）. I forgot who it was...maybe it was leader Keisuke Kuwata（桑田佳祐）himself who once declared that if a song didn't have any sex in it, it really wasn't a song. Or at the very least, it wasn't an SAS song.
Well, then, I have an SAS song for you. To be specific, this is their 17th single from March 1983, "Body Special II", a raunchy rock n' roller that was written and composed by Kuwata with some additional arranging assistance from Ichiro Nitta（新田一郎）. Considering the lyrics of hot and heavy stuff going on, any purchaser of the original single would probably have wondered whether there were any existential lip or tongue marks on the cover. Even the cover itself didn't hide any signs of lasciviousness: the photo is of a well-endowed topless woman. According to a 2020 issue of "Shuukan Bunshun"（週刊文春）via J-Wiki, Kuwata now even admits that the cover was perhaps a step too far. Still with any probable torches and pitchforks thrown from the nation's PTAs aside, "Body Special II" was another hit for the band as it scored a No. 10 ranking and an eventual No. 37 ranking for 1983.
Keisuke Kuwata kind of comes off as being a little bit wild and risky sometimes maybe.
ReplyDeleteYeah, NHK certainly thought so for a long time.
DeleteIf SAS were promoting in America around this time, Tipper Gore would have made sure they were on her "list," hahaha.
ReplyDeleteHeh heh...I'm sure a lot of folks would have had him on their lists.
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