Welcome to another KKP weekend. It's a little chillier if also a little humid, so I'm more than happy to be typing this while the windows are open.
1980s aidoru Nami Shimada（島田奈美）hit her peak in terms of Oricon when she released her May 1987 single "Uchiki na Cupid"（内気なキューピッド）. It hit No. 7 and so did the follow-up single "Pastel Blue no Tameiki" (Pastel Blue Sighes) which came out a few months later in August. Written by Takashi Matsumoto（松本隆）, composed by Tetsuji Hayashi（林哲司）and arranged by Motoki Funayama（船山基紀）, it's a soaring aidoru tune with Shimada's high-toned vocals and it feels like it's describing a fantastical scene involving the lass herself. Couldn't ask anymore from songwriters when it comes to an aidoru song, and heck, she even looks like a chiffon cake in the video below.😁
That chiffon cake dress is a little bit over the top for 1987! But at least it is not a wedding dress. Nami Shimada has that girl next door in a middle or upper middle class neighborhood look, and usually her chic fashion style kind of expressed that. This song is cheery and Nami's smile does make one think this song is some how about her.
ReplyDeleteHello, Brian. Yeah, I was thinking it was close to the early 1980s for that dress, but I'm happy that it wasn't billowing out all over the stage.
Deletei'm a big fan of nami's! the songs she got were a little plain, but i always thought she had the charisma to make them more interesting than they were.
ReplyDeleteNever doubt the charisma! It can take an aidoru a long way. 👍
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