Futurism was an early 20th-century Italian avant-garde artistic and social movement that championed dynamism, speed, technology, and the modern world, while vehemently rejecting tradition and the past. Launched by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti with his 1909 Manifesto of Futurism, the movement celebrated machines like cars and airplanes, the energy of the industrial city, and violence, with its influence seen in visual arts, poetry, and music. Key artists included Umberto Boccioni and Giacomo Balla.
The above is what I got when I threw the term "futurism" into the Google search engine. I've always been interested in what the future may bring in terms of architecture and lifestyle but reading the above, I think that my naïve and optimistic thoughts about what life might be like several hundred years later aren't quite the same as what the futurists in many European countries might have surmised a century ago. For one thing, I do like some of the past and traditional elements to be retained.
Anyways, before we end up heading into a university library together, let's take a look at singer-songwriter Yuki Matsuura's（松浦有希）"Taiyo no Futurizm" (Futurizm of the Sun). First getting exposed to listeners' ears as a track on her 3rd album "Stella Bambina" from August 1997, it hits the nostalgic parts of my brain because of the 1990s dance-pop arrangement that has some little hints of City Pop groove. The rock part surges in near the end for this song that was written and composed by Matsuura. Sharing space on the album is Matsuura's "Watashirashiku"（私らしく）.
Can't say that I have ever heard of Yuki Matsuura! Her music or at least this song sounds more early 90's to me than something from 1997. I am not sure why? Maybe it is because this song has a very light feel to and reminds me of Hiroko Kasahara style whatever her style was?
ReplyDeleteMy anime buddy once told me that anison often reflected the music as it was half a decade or a full decade before its actual release date. Not sure why that was either.
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