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21 december 2019

Japanese women fantasizing about big, robust Santa Claus

 

 

One of my favorite Japanese Christmas songs is Koibito ga Santa Claus, which means ‘my boyfriend is Santa Claus’. It’s originally a track from Matsutoya Yumi’s delightful 1980 winter album Surf & Snow (check it out on Spotify) and it has been covered many times since.

Here is a rock pop version by girl band Scandal, and this one is an instrumental version by a Chinese-style orchestra called the 12 Girls Band. This is a live performance by famous pop singer Oku Hanako en this live performance is by the master (mistress?) herself, Matsutoya Yumi. I love it!

For this Show & Tell I picked the above stylish jazz version by Matsuura Aya, originally a successful J-pop singer. I like the North Sea Jazz-like atmosphere. I don’t know who the pianist is, but there’s clearly good chemistry there, look at him having fun.

Santa Claus, in this song, is a big robust guy from a ‘city of snow’, who enters the singer’s town like a whirlwind and comes to her house to take her away. I’ll bet many Japanese women fantasize about being freed from their dull existence as a house slave this way. (PB)

Christmas, Japan, Music
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