#254 Love on the Toei Shinjuku Line

(#251) Yotsuya-sanchome / Beat Takeshi & Takeshi Gundan Connection via "Tokyo place names" in the title -> (#252) Love on the Toei Shinjuku Line / Midorikawa Shobo

■ Introduction — What is the "Melody Line" (project)? ――――――

Well, to put it simply,
it's a project where we introduce our favorite songs.
(That's a bit too simple of an explanation (・_・)💦)

And, since just introducing them is a bit uninspired (lol), we thought, why not connect them to a song someone else has already written about using some kind of hook like "○○ connection" (￣∀￣)🎵

The image is like,
at a karaoke session with a few people,
when someone sings King Gnu's "SPECIALZ",

then I'll sing "Flight Boat" by the same King Gnu (≧▽≦)
(👆Same artist connection)

In that case, next I'll sing Isao Sasaki's "Galaxy Express 999" ^m^ ← You're quite old-school
(👆Connection via "vehicle" in the song title)

Whoa, then I'll go next with L'Arc~en~Ciel's "ROUTE 666"――
(👆Connection via "number" in the song title)

――that's the kind of spontaneous karaoke vibe we're trying to recreate in our note articles (*´꒳`*)

For more details, click here👇👇👇

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The source song for this connection is hinawahina's article

"Yotsuya-sanchome / Beat Takeshi & Takeshi Gundan"

is the one.

〽The rain at the Yotsuya street corner, my woman is crying
The tangled street corner, my head is going crazy

The rapid-fire delivery of these phrases is snappy,
and it gets a bit addictive the more you listen to it (*´▽｀*)

Takeshi-san's voice, simply rocking out, is so young (≧▽≦)🎵

Also, the source song for this track was my own
"Marunouchi Sadistic / Ringo Sheena"
,
and since "Yotsuya-sanchome" is actually a station name on the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line🎵(≧▽≦)🎵
I think it's a beautiful connection that goes beyond just a "Tokyo place name in the title" link~🎉＼(^o^)／🎉

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So with that in mind,
here is the connecting song I've prepared――

"Love on the Toei Shinjuku Line / Midorikawa Shobo"

The connection is, "Tokyo place name in the title"

Hehe (≧▽≦)🎵

I tried transferring from the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line to the Toei Shinjuku Line^m^

Furthermore, the "Tokyo Tour" is still going strong (≧▽≦) So, here we go🎵

#247 Roppongi Rain / Nao Ko
#248 Aoyama Rainy Night / SLAPSTICK with Fuyumi Shiraishi
#249 Daikanyama Refrain / Yuzu
#250 Kabukicho no Ousama / Tokyo Purin
#251 Ikebukuro no Yoru / Mina Aoe
#252 Marunouchi Sadistic / Ringo Sheena
#253 Yotsuya-sanchome / Beat Takeshi & Takeshi Gundan

And for this time,

#254 Love on the Toei Shinjuku Line / Midorikawa Shobo

With this, we've reached an 8-song combo (⌒～⌒)♪

That is "Love on the Toei Shinjuku Line." It is a track from the 8th album, "
Otsukaresama desu," by the unique singer-songwriter known to those in the know, Midorikawa Shobo.

It's a song about a slightly intriguing, pretend crush, sung with a pop-style |melody| (￣∀￣)🎵

The situation of falling in love with someone you happen to see on your commute to work or school is quite common, but generally, it doesn't actually lead to anything (￣～￣)💦💦

In this song, too, the girl he's interested in encounters a scene where she's crying in despair—whether she had her heart broken or was dumped in the second verse—but then,
I thought he would finally get closer to her in the third verse—
but then, the girl he's interested in ends up with bleached hair and heavy makeup, looking all rough (・_・)💦

In the end, the protagonist is just a bystander from start to finish^m^
His love, lasting less than 15 minutes from Kikukawa to Ichigaya, ends with him "doing nothing"^m^

〽What's wrong? What's wrong? Hey you! What's the matter!?

—That's actually what I want to say to you (￣∀￣)
Whether your love is realized or broken, just do something already!! That's what I want to say (≧▽≦)

Well then, the "Melody Line" main line is currently carrying out a "Tokyo Tour" featuring "Tokyo place names in the titles," but I wonder how far this tour will go (￣∀￣)

—This has been Matsudaira, the (dangerous guy) who just quietly steals glances at her.