Happy Monday! The last time I wrote about contemporary aidoru and singer-songwriter Emiri Kanou（加納エミリ）was just a little over a year ago when I encountered her nifty collaboration with New Wave dandy Makoto Francis Ori（小里誠）, "Sabakaru Emiri"（裁かるゝエミリ）from 2023. However, it still feels as if an eternity has gone by since that last one.
Well, I've decided to start this KKP business week with another Kanou song, but this one goes back all the way to her beginnings in the late 2010s. In fact, this is the opening track from her debut album "GREENPOP", which was released in November 2019. "Koi se yo Otome" (Fall In Love, Maiden) is fully in love with 80s synthpop and the music video makes sure everyone knows that this is no coincidence. That intro even reminds me a tad of Madonna's "Borderline". Kanou took care of both words and music.
This is a great song (and album). A very talented singer/songwriter who sadly doesn't seem to have produced much subsequent work, as far as I know.
ReplyDeleteHello, Robert. Outside of her collaboration with Francis, Kanou's work seems to stop at around 2020. She did get married to an actor by the name of Kuu Ijima in 2024.
DeleteThe track with Francis was SO good too. I listened to that one countless times.
DeleteYeah, that was catchy as all heck, wasn't it?
DeleteI love the 1980ish style of this, and the album cover is cool as Emiri Kanou seems to be as photogenic as she is talented.
ReplyDeleteHello, Brian. Yes, it's rather nostalgic, isn't it?
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