City Pop Series ①
We have prepared two couples who are running on the royal road of city pop. It was
"Kaze no Corridor" Written by Tatsuro Yamashita, composed by Tatsuro Yamashita, song Tatsuro Yamashita 1985
"Yume no Tsuduki" Lyrics Mariya Takeuchi, Composition Mariya Takeuchi, Song Mariya Takeuchi 1987
Tatsuro Yamashita's new album "SOFTLY" for the first time in 11 years was just released on June 22, and that's why I chose Japanese city pop in the 1980s.
Overseas, Japan's 80's city pop is now in the limelight and is becoming popular. One of the reasons is that Mariya Takeuchi's "Plastic Love" suddenly became a popular video overseas on RU-vid, which attracted attention to Japanese city pop and supported it. It seems that it is not the age of yesteryear, but the younger generation who was not born in that era.
One theory is that Japanese anime is now popular all over the world, and younger generations from Anison's songs traced the origin of Japan music and ended up in the old city pop. I think there are other factors as well.
Anyway, it can be said that the fact that the pop music of the last Showa era in Japan in the 1980s attracted the world's attention was an unexpected turnaround.
It is a song of a couple who should be called the royal road.
"Kaze no Corridor" was tie-up with Honda at that time and was appointed as an automobile commercial called "Quint Integra". For Honda cars in the 1980s, coupled with the success effect in F1, car models such as City Civic Integra Prelude are popular with young people, and fashionable city pop is appointed for CM music, Tatsuro Yamashita's music Was also appointed.
"Yume no Tsuduki" is one of Mariya Takeuchi's songs, which was on track after she got married and concentrated on songwriting activities as a singer-songwriter. It's a song that seems to have been made with a three-legged race, and her husband Tatsuro Yamashita is included in the backing chorus.
The speaker of Sansui S-700Di, which had been sleeping for many years, was revived and air-recorded.
Speaker: SANSUI S-700Di (product around 1988)
Main unit: SANSUI SMC-300BT (Product around 2019: Vacuum tube hybrid amplifier)
Recorder: SONY UX560F
3 окт 2024
