![]() ![]() Who Wrote Miki Matsubara’s Mayonaka 真夜中のドア No Doa Stay With Me? Musicians, such as Haromi Hosono and his band Happy End, who I looked at in my last Songs In Translation Video, and, even more characteristically, Sugar Babe, symbolised the start of the change in Japan.īy the time Miki Matsubara released the song in 1979, aged 19 and a year out of high school, the City Pop genre was just starting to launch into full flight. The new music was all about personal fortune and misfortune, the world be damned. This music formed a soft rebellion against the more heart on your sleeve, socio-political movement-orientated folk and raucous rock that had taken hold in the mid 60s. Loosely tied up into an amorphous subgenre mirror ball called “City Pop”, people started seeking out this music deeply influenced by American AOR, Adult and Album Orientated Rock, depending on who you believe, which favored sophisticated, jazz and funk inflected grooves with a smooth, upbeat vibe. This was the music of the late economic bubble era 80’s Japan, one part of what had, rather uninspiringly been given the moniker of “New music”. Of course, the song is placed in a larger wave of ironic nostalgia that has been rippling across the globe ever since Japanese and Western DJ’s started spinning the so called – Rare Grooves in the 90s. Miki Matsubara & The Rise of Japanese City Pop ![]() Hey, it was the year of the plague, so you can forgive the greater online diaspora for frothing for a little razzle dazzle. It also has a perfectly twinkling Matsubara eye film clip if you watch one of the most prominent selections doing the rounds on Tik Tok. It’s got layers of muted horns, shimmering keys and extended harmony inflected strings. Mayonaka occupies a late 70s, early 80s style jazz fusion, America-meets-rising-sun world, with a combo locking into a funky groove, in consummate session muso fashion. ![]() Whatever the providence, some of the appeal must have come from the cheesy, yet undeniably soaring, melody, performance and arrangement. Perhaps it was the infamous hand of god, guided by the then only recently deceased maradona. Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: 【Rainych】 Mayonaka no Door / STAY WITH ME – Miki Matsubara | Official Music Video ()įlawlessly sung in Japanese by an Indonesian with almost no ability to speak a word of Japanese, the song perhaps represents a new watermark in the globalization of culture.īut who can really say why these things take off? I like to see it as an act of nature, or divinity, or divine nature, like a cyclone or an earth tremor, or a large wave. In an unprecedented year, it was an unexpected cover of the song by Indonesian-Muslim artist Rainych that set the spark of the viral fire that spread to social media, by uploading a cover of the song to Youtube on the 29th of October 2020. The song started doing the rounds on Tic Toc in the dying months of the annus mirabilis of 2020. Matsubara Miki’s Mayonaka No Doa – Stay With Me, meaning “Midnight Door – Stay With Me”, is one such piece of shimmering flotsam to have surfaced on the digital tide. In this way, curios that have been previously looked over, passed on, loved in parallel worlds or inhabited worlds partially loved, somehow find new life. The internet has a strange habit of regurgitating cultural artifacts up from the bubbling & voluminous ooze of human history. Take my mind off how I get so damn lonelyĪnd over on repeat Why Did Miki Matsubara’s Stay With Me Blow Up In 2020? I need something to help me fill this hole inside I always knew when you were right there with me I remember way back when how you would treat These words, how many times must I repeat? I was knocking on your door and crying with the seasons changing Till the dark night turns into morning light ![]() Reflecting in the shop window, right there I saw I thought, isn’t that just like you dear? Stay with me… Stay With Me English LyricsĪ coffee stain that I’m sure I’d seen before Japanese Lyrics, Songs In Translation Stay With Me Japanese Lyrics Subscribe: RSS | More Approx Japanese level Tokyo to Matsumoto City and Matsumoto Castle.Demon Slayer Cosplay Costume Gallery 2020.How To Choose The Best Hanten Jacket or Chanchanko.Best Japanese Christmas Decorations and Ornaments of 2020.Kotatsu Blanket and Kotatsu Futon 2021 Guide.Japanese Language Learning Resources 2021.Graded Japanese Reading & Listening Practice. ![]()
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