At some point this fall, Make Believe Melodies turned ten. I’d known this decade milestone was looming — mainly because 2019 also marked my tenth anniversary of moving to Japan to work in the countryside teaching English to bored teenagers “for a year or two, tops” — and toyed around with ways to celebrate. Then life happened…
The duo of Brinq and Misatsun delivered a late-year gem with “Kiss Me,” a sparkling dance-pop number channeling late ’80s idol numbers that managed to be catchy enough to avoid any potential nostalgia pitfalls. “Touch Me [Straight Run]” serves as the follow up, and delivers a slightly more understated, still pretty twinkling bit of pop….
A whole bunch of trends collide together via Haretokidoki’s “Kiss Me,” and this post could be nothing but a connect-the-dots affair. You’ve got the unit itself, which finds producer Brinq working with a woman named Misatsun, in a style not far removed from recent examples like Applekid and Cheap Cream. Then factor in the duo’s…