Favorite J-Pop Singles : Matsuda Seiko / Sutekini Once Again

Seiko Matsuda "Sutekini Once Again"

Legendary Sony Records artist Seiko Matsuda has been recording and making music on the J-pop scene since 1982, so she was one of the few Japanese recording stars that even I’D heard of, but it wasn’t until the 1995 Kohaku Uta Gassen Red and White Songfest that I got to see her for the first time…and I gotta say, she hooked me right from the start!
 They started out Seiko’s segment with a short medley of a couple of her early 80’s hits, and though they were catchy enough, what really intrigued me was Seiko herself: She was so damn pretty and her OUITFIT! She was dressed in this cutesy little girl fairy dress and strapped to her back was a fuzzy Teddy Bear backpack! With white sneakers she performed with such playful gusto, jumping and stamping around, it was this image that made me say “I think I love Seiko Matsuda”!

  It helped that the song she was promoting was a really great song, a little ditty called “Sutekini Once Again”. My friend Dave had made a J-pop mix for me with a couple of her songs “Let’s Talk Again” and “Don’t You Wanna Dance” and so I was expecting her to do those songs, but I wasn’t disappointed at all with this one! A fun and cloying song, or at least, that what it SEEMS like since that’s how Seiko was BEHAVING anyway!!!

 PS, I remember talking to my friend Golden about Seiko and her performance at the Red  & White, and he laughed, saying, My Mom was watching it with me and when Seiko came out, she exclaimed, “WHO IS THIS OLD LADY WITH ALL THAT MAKE-UP ON PRETENDING TO BE 10 YEARS OLD!” LOLOLOL, I admit she might have a point, but MAN, this is JUST the kind of gal I LOVE! Seiko, You're the BEST!