And here I thought that Seiko Matsuda（松田聖子）got all her Xmas feelings out when she released her 1987 "Snow Garden". Well, apparently not.
At the very least, she did have one more Christmas song in the form of "Futari dake no Christmas" (A Christmas Just For Two) which was a track on her December 1989 album "Precious Moment". Seiko-chan herself came up with the lyrics (as she did for all of the tracks) with Minoru Komorita（小森田実） as the composer and Masaaki Omura（大村雅朗）as the arranger. Speaking about arrangement, "Futari dake no Christmas" has this solemn and hushed atmosphere but also seems to possess a child-like wonder about the Holidays as if a couple were getting married in an ancient church on Christmas Eve. As for "Precious Moment", it scored a No. 6 ranking on Oricon.
In 1987 Seiko would have been about 3 years into her first marriage with Masaki Kanda so maybe this song is about Seiko's and Masaki Christmas together or at least her ideal version of such?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to think that things were still good between Seiko and Masaki when this song was recorded.
DeleteHi, I've seen your blog before over the past weeks. I'm (slowly and badly) learning Japanese and listening to Japanese music has definitely turned in my #1 hobby. Especially from the 80s and 90s is what I've just been starstruck with. Seiko Matsuda is amazing and I love your knowledge and information you have amassed here. Thank you so much:)
DeleteHi there and thanks for your comments. Please continue to work hard on your Japanese...nope, it isn't easy, believe me, considering the seven years of Japanese language school and then four years of Japanese training at university, but once you hit Japan and smooth out that fluency, it'll all be worth it.
DeleteSeiko is one of my originals. She was just at the beginnings of her long successful career when I first got into Japanese music. It has also been worth it. 😊
Hey, Anonymous, looks like we share at least two favorite hobbies! Listening to Japanese music and acquiring Japanese! And, I echo J-Canuck’s comment that effort at Japanese is well worth it if you are doing live, work, or have any other time of relationships with the Japanese be that in your country or in Japan.
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