Nice to have aidoru group Negicco back in the KKP saddle again after a few years away. I think the last article I posted about them regarded their "Gozen Rei-ji no Sympathy"（午前0時のシンパシー）from 2020. That has some nice City Pop twist there and my impression has been that the group has enjoyed dabbling into the urban contemporary genres now and then.
I'm going a bit further back in their discography to bring out their single "Anata to Pop With You" (Popping With You) which made its debut in June 2012. I first found about this one when I was perusing kinuzure's "Tamaranaku, AOR Kayo"（たまらなく、AOR歌謡...Irresistibly, AOR Pop） blog. I don't really think that this particular song is in the Neo-City Pop or J-AOR vein despite the presence of some synth brass but it's still an upbeat and fun song for summer. There seems to be a faint reminder of what was going on with Eurobeat back in the 1980s.
Wasn't quite sure about the presence of a "white" Negicco and a "blue" Negicco in the music video. I'd assumed that it was about the good and evil dichotomy with Negicco the White looking rather forlorn while Negicco the Blue were ready to party down. However, the Blue happily won over the White. "Anata to Pop With You", which was written and composed/arranged by singer-songwriter connie, peaked at No. 41 on Oricon. It's also a track on the group's July 2013 album "Melody Palette".
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