Another post praising Japanese music. There will be more coming later. I found Sheena Ringo and Hikaru Utada from Sheena Ringo’s latest video. It was their duet on Sheena Ringo’s upcoming album. You can expect that album to be on my favorite albums of 2019 list. However I can’t get enough of their older duet from Hikaru Utada’s album.
I love everything about this video. Song is good. If I listened more of this kind of music it might not stand out so much as it does now. Video fits perfectly to smooth jazzy song. At least if you don’t understand the lyric. Which is the case with me. This whole thing gives me 60’s optimistic science fiction feeling. Someone should make a movie or tv-series heavily inspired by this music video. If there already something giving similar feeling I really want to see it.
It could be mix of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Barbarella with more optimism and less sexual content. I am science fiction fan but I don’t remember seeing anything like that. Or have I? There is a movie called Space Station 76 which tried to be something like that. Maybe it wasn’t as optimistic as I want.