Last month, I introduced brief-careered 80s aidoru Chiaki Ogami（尾上千昌）and one of her singles "Tokimeki Highway"（ときめきハイウェイ）from July 1983 which is so typically 1980s aidoru-tastic that it makes my memories shiver like an ice cream headache on certain head muscles (haven't felt one of those in a long time).
Ogami and her songwriters, lyricist Ikki Matsumoto（松本一起）and composer/arranger Koji Makaino（馬飼野康二）, were at it again for the B-side, "Glass Shojo" (Glass Girl). This song is a bit more fleet-footed thanks to those thrilling strings and the wailing electric guitar but it's still very much an aidoru tune of its time (especially with that off-tune plaintive delivery in the chorus), and I actually prefer it to the A-side.
I really love those 1980s-era album covers! Listening to this song didn't give me a headache, but it did remind me of that one of themes or catchwords of the early 80s was 'shojo'! Anyway some how Her singing style also makes me feel somewhat nostalgic.
ReplyDeleteYeah, those covers are very nostalgic especially with the iconography used.
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