Happy New Year, everyone! (^^)! There are many videos and audio materials on YouTube about "I am Piano", Takada Mizue's biggest hit song (I have uploaded it too (;^ω^)). After being rejected from the Red and White Song Battle the previous year, she was considering retiring if this song had not become a hit, so she approached this song with her back against the wall. She lost her beloved grandfather around the time of the release of this song, and after singing it with tears in her eyes, she got a big hit and returned to the Red and White Song Battle. The divine beauty of her singing of "I am Piano" at the Red and White Song Battle. It seems that such dramatic episodes have been talked about on the Internet. There are also various opinions flying around about the unique collaboration of "Kuwata Keisuke x Takada Mizue". So, there is no room for me to say anything know-it-all about this song in my poor video, and it would be presumptuous of me to say so, so to be honest, I have been hesitant to upload this song until now. And one more thing, I have a slightly twisted feeling about this song, and it is true that in the back of my mind, I felt like I was an evil smuggler saying, "'I am the Piano' is fine, but actually, you know, there are even better Mizue songs." I may have said this before, but as a fan, I have a feeling of "Mizue is mine" (at least in real time), and from that perspective, I think I felt a little lonely, or a little distance in my heart, because this smash hit song that sold 500,000 copies had left the hands of a twisted otaku like me and become a genuine Showa standard number. So, I had always thought that I would only be able to upload this song on special days like New Year's, not on ordinary days. After going through all of this, I decided to upload "I am the Piano" this time, and when I listened to this song carefully for the first time in a while to make a video (slideshow), I once again felt, "What is this, it's a divine song!" I felt like the thrill I felt when I first heard this song in real time was brought back to life. Mizue Takada's vocals are lovely, sad, and sexy. There is a subtle eroticism in the world of the song. It is one of the "rain songs" as in the phrase "Billy Joel on a rainy night". There is also a phrase that makes you feel the "rebirth of the soul" with "It's painful but I won't show my tears". And since Mizue Takada's songs since 1980 have been based on the "I'm the piano" line, there is no doubt that this is a "divine song" that is packed with the essence of Mizue Takada's songs. Technically, it is a very difficult song, as she herself later reminisced, "It's a song that goes up and down the key repeatedly, and it's difficult to handle the high notes," but Mizue Takada's singing is a wonderful mix of stability in the mid-low range and transparency in the high range, and I am amazed at the potential of Mizue Takada, a singer who can sing to such a high level, even though she was only 20 years old at the time. If Takada Mizue had not sung this song "I am the Piano", I think (without exaggeration) that at least the world around me would have been completely different from what it is now. In that sense, I decided to upload this at the beginning of the new year with the hope that "I am the Piano" and "Takada Mizue" will continue to exist in the world around me as they have until now (;^ω^)