Miina Tominaga -- ’Cause A Woman

 

From YouTuber Cookie Crumpet, I give you the wonders of seiyuu Miina Tominaga（冨永みーな）as the villainous Majorina in "Smile PreCure" (2011-2012). When I posted my first article on the veteran voice thespian back in 2019, I did mention that I hadn't seen much of her work in anime and it was basically her time as the chief pain-in-the-neck for that group of PreCure warriors that got me to know her. 

Well, let's go back a few decades. Tominaga had already been in the anime business for about ten years but she was also putting out her own records whose songs from what I've heard so far have been in the urban contemporary field. She definitely doesn't sound like the cackling Majorina on the track "'Cause A Woman" from her July 1986 2nd album "a・ha! I'm 20".

Written by Ren Takayanagi（高柳恋）and composed by Yusuke Nakamura（中村裕介）, I was rather wondering whether "'Cause A Woman" would fall right into the City Pop groove or if it's an especially funky pop song of the mid-1980s. Any further speculation was finished when I reached the instrumental bridge and I declared, "Yeah, that's City Pop enough for me!". Still I kept the pop label in there, too. Nice and caramel groovy, it is.