#80s japanese idols

[eightiesfan]

[j-bubble]

Yu Hayami

[i-still-loving-u]

[nobbykun]

Artist - 松田聖子 (Matsuda, Seiko) Song - Rock’n Rouge Release Date - February 1984

Listen 🎶

https://rumble.com/v54fyr9-seiko-matsuda-rockn-rouge.html

My blog: Showa Music Library https://nobbykun.tumblr.com/

[anemoiawithatouchofobsession]

Here is a little playlist from a few months ago :

A cute little bubblegum/cutesy/ "i am in love with you" pop, from the Korean, Japanese and American 80s. Enjoy for all the feels!

[denim-bias]

[yousei-no-mori]

Japanese media findings #1 - Tadaima. by Akiko Yano (album)

I found this album while browsing subgenres of shibuya-kei and somehow stumbled upon the genre of techno kayou. I've never heard of it before until listening to this album and it seems to be thanks to the fact that it's practically a dead genre.

Techno kayou is a subgenre of kayoukyoku (showa era pop music) as well as idol kayou, which is basically the predecessor to J-pop.

Giving this album a listen filled me with inspiration as well as a feeling of melancholy. A reminder that this already small genre pretty much doesn't exist anymore and this, if not preserved, would go under eventually.

So I just wanted to spread the word of my finding and recommend/introduce this wonderfully surreal and upbeat album to at least a few of you people on here.

[karamelise]

Meiko Nakahara sings a cover of Chieri Ito's "Coconut no Kataomoi/Coconut Crush" (1982)

[ichigoaini]

Magazine pages from Yasuyuki Okamura’s debut

+ translations

“In 1987: a singer to look out for– Yasuyuki Okamura”

An ideal type of guy: It's safe to let a girl who says she wants a kind and artistic guy to fix her, after experiencing love about a hundred times. The type is a girl who appears cold at first but is actually a good person. It's better to deal with someone like that after becoming more mature. In 1987, a beautiful egotist stirs up the world.

More pages and manuscripts under the cut ~

Appearing larger on stage is an extremely important talent for musicians. Superstars like Mick Jagger, David Bowie, and Bruce Springsteen are all just a little over 170 centimeters, not particularly tall by Western standards. However, on stage, they appear larger than life. When we saw Okamura before us during this photo shoot, he seemed much smaller than the stage image, despite being 178 centimeters tall. Yet, on stage, Okamura appeared like a giant, almost 190 centimeters tall. His debut happened on the massive stage of the Budokan, where he showcased an unusual presence for a newcomer. What will happen when his confidence and popularity as an artist further develop?

Debut Q&A

Q1: what is the origin of your name? I don’t know

Q2: date and place of birth? August 14 1965, Kobe

Q3: height, weight? 178, 58

Q4: Family structure? father, mother, younger brother

Q5: what were you called as a child (nicknames)? Pink Panther or Yacchan

Q6: Hobbies or pastimes? Long phone calls

Q7: Favourite sport? Basketball

Q8: favourite food? Egg

Q9: food you don’t like? Salad that has fruit

Q10: favourite colour? purple and black

Q11: Blood type personality? Type B, cute guy, but narrow-minded

Q12: Average hours of sleep every night? about 4~6 hours

Q13: what do you wear when you sleep? nothing

Q14: average amount of money spent every month? not sure

Q15: what do you spend it on? also not sure

Q16: If you could buy anything, what would you buy? Love

Q17: the thing you want most in the world right now? Love

Q18: the most important thing to you currently? Love

Q19: do you have any weird habits? I don’t know what you mean…

Q20: are you superstitious? nope

Q21: what is attractive in a girl? when she says things like “I like you” I go crazy

Q22: what would an ideal date be? Disneyland

Q23: tell me, how do you pick up girls? I’ve never actually made a pass at a girl before.

Q24: when and where was your first kiss? I'm not going to tell you.

Q25: Were you shocked? maybe.

Q26: what do you say when you get rejected? “if you leave me, the meaning of my life disappears”

Q27: has love ever made you cry? maybe.

Q28: what would you do if you were born a woman? I don’t know

Q29: what do the women you like wear? anything sexy (in my opinion)

Q30: who do you admire? Seiko Matsuda and Jack Nicholson

Q31: who is your rival? Akina Nakamori

Q32: the saddest thing that happened after your debut? nothing!

Q33: the happiest thing? when I went to the record shop and my own song was playing

Q34: what would you be doing if not music? I don’t know

Q35: the first record you ever bought? Beautiful Sunday

Q36: if you could only bring one record to a deserted island, what would you take? My own.

Q37: most watched TV programmes? Sanma no Manma (a chat show)

Q38: a role (in TV or a film) you would like to play? the role of a person in love

Q39: a place you’d like to visit? a girl’s room

Q40: have you experienced a severe injury or illness? no

Q41: memories of childhood pranks? I was a stupid kid, so I never thought of ever doing that.

Q42: Somebody who you can’t forgive? somebody who’s phony.. Well, not really.

Q43: if you could leave only one thing in a time capsule? a video of myself

Q44: what will you be doing in 5 years time? I’d like to perform all around the world

Q45: if there were 3 minutes until the end of the world who would you call? a girl who loves me

Q46: Finally, anything you want to say? Listen to “OUT OF BLUE”

Yasuyuki Okamura’s debut at the Budokan: “I want people to take the title 'YELLOW' in their own way when they hear it”

With his debut between last year and this year, it is safe to say with no exaggeration that Yasuyuki Okamura is one of most promising newcomers in the music industry… The interest in his work was sparked by him providing songs for Misato Watanabe and Koji Kikkawa among others. His first stage appearance was at the Nippon Budokan, shortly after the release of his debut single “OUT OF BLUE” (EPIC Sony). Despite the unusual format of a guest appearance at the public radio event, it was a success from the outset. He acted like a “show-off” but had a kind of “star” glamour.

“A debut show at the Budokan is something you’ll never experience again, and it’s a very special experience. I’m interested in doing more shows, because many people lack showmanship: the spirit is the best sense of the word.”

Okamura’s long-awaited debut album “YELLOW”, released in March, had been in the works for 10 months. Apart from some assistance with lyrics and arrangements, the music is all his own, self produced. In fact, this was apparently the reason for the album’s delay in completion.

“I was originally going to have someone else to write the lyrics: but when I did, the words didn’t really suit me. And so I wrote my own, I worked very hard but I can’t just leave it to someone else. If you don’t sing what you think, or what you think about yourself, you won’t inspire any affection for the song itself.”

His songs are filled with a quiet anger. In the flood of modern information and world affairs it sounds like a cry of “I won’t be fooled.” The problems plaguing the Middle East and famine in Africa are all sung about on an everyday level, transmitted through the brown noise of TV. However, there is a strong sense that the message is not being said out loud, but rather it is internally understood. “I don’t mean to sound like another 60s douche, but I’m not sure what I can even do about it. So naturally I have to be a bystander… There are a hundred different ways to receive the news, if that is the case, then it’s not for me to tell them to do this or that, but rather to leave it to themselves to understand. The title of the LP is “YELLOW”, I want everyone who hears it to take it in any way they want, so that’s why I gave it this title. It’s vague but I think it comes across well, though.” For example, the track ‘Water Bed’ on the LP interpolates The Beatles’ ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ lyrics.

Yasuyuki Okamura will hold a one-man concert at Shibuya Public Hall on 22nd of April.

Images source: https://twitter.com/Limited_Night_/status/1241929114879025152

[cinemaobscura]

School in The Crosshairs | ねらわれた学園 (1981) dir. Obayashi Nobuhiko

[eightiesfan]

Sharp Twincam

[j-bubble]

Yu Hayami

[sepia-x]

– а как вы относитесь к j-pop?

очень интересно узнать ваше мнение на этот счет, лично мне не очень, но по большей части безразлично. из j-pop меня зацепила только atarashi gakkou, но только парочка песен

[nobbykun]

Artist - 早見優 (Hayami, Yu) Song - 誘惑光線･クラッ! (Yūwaku Kōsen Kura!) [Eng. "Temptation Beam, Dizzy!"] Release Date - March 1984

Listen 🎶

https://rumble.com/v4miubq-yu-hayami-yuwaku-kosen-kurat.html

My blog: Showa Music Library https://nobbykun.tumblr.com/

[anemoiawithatouchofobsession]

I hate the fact that college sucks the life out of me smh so here's a cute photo of moritaka chisato to

[citypopraccoon-blog]

This will be my little City Pop setup^^