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)





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