Keiko Maruyama -- Hatachi no Watashi（20才の私）

 

Seeing that we started today's Urban Contemporary segment with something light and mellow, it would seem appropriate to end things the same way as well. 

"Hatachi no Watashi" (Me at 20) sounds like just the tonic and since the middle part of my articles were all in the 80s with the first article being from the 90s, why not finish up with a song from the 70s? This particular tune was written, composed and performed by Keiko Maruyama（丸山圭子）, someone that I haven't covered for a little over a year, and it comes from her fourth album "My Point of View" which was released in December 1977. 

Feeling like a whimsical 1970s City Pop tune with a touch of bossa nova, a young lady who has just turned that significant age of 20 seems to have experienced a number of things already, some of them with her beau (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)😉. Twenty in Japan was indeed once the age for a teenage to become an adult and a part of working society through things like drinking, smoking and voting, but a few years ago, the legal age of adulthood was brought down to eighteen. Mind you, I have a feeling that a lot of teens were already experiencing some of those things way before the special age.