My Hump Day this week has been a little more eventful than usual. I was heading to check up on the snail mail when I encountered one of my elderly neighbors after he had apparently fallen down the short stairs and couldn't quite get up on his own. He was OK...just a little rattled but I got him back home to his wife.
Anyways, let's start the Wednesday edition of KKP off with something nice and jaunty from singer-songwriter Mai Yamane（山根麻衣）. This was her August 1982 5th single "Kibun wa Fairness" (I Feel Fairness) which slots in somewhere in between her earlier City Pop material such as "City Drive" from 1980 and then her rock music including her contributions to the anime "Cowboy Be-Bop". Written by Ririko Shimano（島野凛々子）and composed by Junichi Tagiri（田切純一）, it's a cordial pop/rock song about a woman who was heads-over-heels over some guy named J.B. (James Bond?) Before we get too metaphysical about the title, the song was used as a jingle for a Shiseido brand named Fairness.
Maybe it is time for a new genre like J-rock-fashion music? or City fashion pop?
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