Well, so far, I have just the one Miyuki Hara（原みゆき）article and that was for her 1989 "Yude Tamago to Boku"（ゆでたまごと僕）from her album "Rin"（凛...Dignified）, and I gave it the thumbnail of a Sunset Grill breakfast plate. So, I thought, why not do the same here and place an omurice from Japan at the top?
I must admit that I had a little bit of a tough time categorizing this lovely tune which begins Hara's 1988 album "la noon". Hara was responsible for both words and music, and "Koishikute" (Missing You) has this shiny technopop sheen throughout but ultimately I also heard that familiar City Pop groove pulsating underneath that synthesized tissue, so I ended up categorizing it as both City Pop and technopop. Apparently, I hadn't been all that enthused about Hara's vocals on "Yude Tamago to Boku" but they seem fine on this particular song, and hearing them, I felt that there was something in there to remind me of Akiko Yano（矢野顕子）and Taeko Ohnuki（大貫妙子）."Koishikute" involves the young lass missing lots of things and it made me feel like I was missing those certain musical elements of the 1980s.
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