Way back in the mid-nineties I had a friend who was majorly into Sakai Noriko, and one day he made me a mix cassette tape of all her “hits”, mostly taken from her various singles collections (in particular, her album Natural Best). I grew to love most of the songs, enough that he eventually dubbed a couple of her VHS video collections for me, and here’s where my real appreciation for Sakai Noriko began!
For the first time I was able to see the visuals accompanying these songs, and if I thought the songs were adorably cutesy in itself, it was multiplied a HUNDREDFOLD with the visuals of sweet Noriko bouncing along happily singing her songs, songs like Shiawase Nante Hoshikunaine and Diamond Blue, which I’d liked before, became HUGE favorites of mine when paired with the sights of Nori-P sailing on rental rowboats, playfully playing golf or cruising around town in a sports car…
But there was one song that made its mark on my heart above all else, and it was the video they used for the ending credits for Noriko's Video Collection 2 Video File 1988-89. In this collection, Noriko introduces each song sitting at a little café, giggling while relating “behind the scenes" stories for each clip, at the end of the show she appears in a magical field of sunflowers, and as the credits roll, she belts out the insanely HAPPY song “Sukushi Zutsu No Koi”, skipping through the plants and being just plain ADORABLE! More than ANY video in ANY of her collections, THIS was the clip I played over and OVER again, and it’s now firmly entrenched as my favorite Noriko Sakai PV of all time! To this day, whenever I hear this song, I can tell exactly when the credits start rolling, when she's jumping, when she's wandering through the plants, etc, Love it SO much!
PS: Holy Toledo, I just realized this video is TWENTY FIVE YEARS OLD!!!!
What. The. HELL!!!! Time sure flies when you’re having fun romping in a field of flowers…
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
