6,710 views
Among the "Takada Mizue Numbers," there is a group of works that could be called "Yokohama Songs," and I have arbitrarily positioned this as the "Takada Mizue Yokohama Trilogy," centering on "Sad Lonely Girl," along with her next work "China Lights" and the previous year's "Honmoku Rainy Night." "Tears of Jitterbug," which has "Motomachi (Yokohama)" in the lyrics, and "Love's Imagination," which features "Hill with a View of the Harbor," could also be considered part of the "Yokohama Songs." Yokohama, a sophisticated metropolis that also has an aspect of being a port town facing the sea, seems to be a good match for Takada Mizue, who grew into a beautiful woman but never lost her simplicity. There is a video of Mizue singing and dancing to "Sad Lonely Girl" with her long skirt fluttering in the wind, and I think that "Sad Lonely Girl" should be reevaluated more actively as an idol pop song that allows you to enjoy the cute and "adult sexy" vocals and performance of "Takada Mizue". This song (for some reason I have no idea (^^;)) has been treated very unfairly in that I have hardly heard any reviews of it as a song in real time. In fact, I have seen young listeners who don't know "Takada Mizue" review it as a "cool song" on the Internet. The evaluation of those young listeners is correct. As real-time fans, we should follow the attitude of these young listeners and not consider any of the annoying circumstances (I don't know the details) that prevent this song from being properly evaluated, and should listen to it with a fresh mind as an excellent and "cool" Mizue number (*^^*)