I think opinions may vary here, but today's feeling like the coldest day of the year thus far in my city. The wind chill factor took things down to -24 degrees Celsius! Had wanted to get my hair cut at the local barber but when I got to the place, it still hadn't opened and one poor guy was waiting in his car for the salon to open up. Wasn't going to wait and even the walk over to the convenience store to pick up the paper was an arduous odyssey.
At this point, still several weeks away from spring, I wouldn't blame folks for wanting to take the season off and make like bears going into hibernation. Instead, I'll be content to listen to heartwarming tunes like "Season Off" by Miyuki Kosaka（香坂みゆき）. A track from her September 1985 album "Fairway", it feels like a summer breeze with the melody and arrangement by the late singer-songwriter Kazuhito Murata（村田和人）, and it does have that laidback Murata merrily-we-roll-along jauntiness along with, I suspect, his voice as the background chorus and his guitar in the instrumental bridge. Kazuko Kobayashi（小林和子）was responsible for the lyrics. Nice to have a bit of summer back again.
Miyuki Kosaka's music sometimes blurs the lines for me because there are times that I think maybe she moved from idol pop into city pop or some other genre, but it seems people tend to think of her as an Aidoru and an actress. That is not to say that an Aidoru can't perform city pop or that one person can't move from genre to genre.
ReplyDeleteHello, Brian. I've been reading up on Japanese music recently and the author there has mentioned that the walls among at least some of the genres if not most of them are very permeable, so mixing should be expected. Yep, aidoru have tackled City Pop arrangements in the past such as Momoko Kikuchi.
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