was released on November 24, 2004. The title is いえないコトバ. It is pronounced 'Ienai Kotoba' and can be translated as 'The Words I Can't Say'. There is no c/w.
This single was released a week after her previous single. The song is a ballad and has the distinction of being Aiko's third-longest recording (5:32). The song was featured as the ending song of the anime 'Samurai Gun'.
The PV puts Aiko at the end of a once-promising relationship with a guy who wears a flannel shirt. We only see the guy from behind; Aiko stares up at him from a park bench at a gorgeous seaside location. He turns and walks away from her. She goes back to her hotel room, where the party people from 'Fantasy' live it up in the next room. Lonely, pouty Aiko gets upset and bangs on the wall (a shot stolen from the previous PV) as if to say, 'hey, some of us are trying to break up with our boyfriends here!'.
She calls 'flannel man' with her cell-phone and he says 'it's over', and she sheds some acting tears as she hangs up the phone. Look, flannel man, it's your loss.
Aiko slumps down in her hotel room which is HUGE by Japan standards, and it probably cost 100,000 yen for one night, so I hope flannel man's paying. Cut to him and he's on a dock, closing his phone, so now he'll probably help Nacchan write a song or something. He walks away and crosses paths with a familiar-looking girl wearing a pink overcoat, tied at the waist, carrying a stack of gifts so tall that she can barely see where she's going.
The guy can't even leave the video without seeing his old girlfriend... wait, wasn't she just on the phone a second ago? Nope, this 'new' Aiko is the third character in the video set, who will be maxing out every credit card she can find in the next PV.
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Kayo Aiko's Third single...
was released on November 17, 2004. The title is 'Fantasy'. There is no c/w.
This single was the first of four singles she released in four consecutive weeks. The covers for all four singles feature a red rope that winds from left to right, and when the covers are placed side-by-side, the rope continues from one cover to the next.
Similarly, the PV's for all four songs are intertwined with vignettes of four different stories, centered around a large hotel.
In the first video, for Fantasy, Aiko plays a club girl who goes out with a gang of friends, male and female. They have a toast with flute-glasses at a table (but Aiko was 18 when this was filmed, so presume these drinks are non-alcoholic). They toss a balloon around their hotel suite and blow off 'champagne-popper' noisemakers. They participate in a giant dance sequence which features what I've always referred to as the 'oh my god, I stuck my hand in the fryer!' dance. See the PV and you'll know what I mean.
This Aiko character is cool, she's happy, and she's out having a good time. But apparently the ruckus that's coming from her hotel suite is bothering another guest. Another Aiko character bangs on the common wall and is trying to say, 'keep it down over there!' We'll find out what that's all about in the next PV.
Fantasy was featured as the ending theme for the TV Tokyo show GAME JOCKEY. I don't know what this show is about, so help me, if you can.
The song itself is a bit of a departure from Aiko's usual style (if she has one), the longest song she's ever recorded (5:38), and even if it wasn't intentional, it's an homage to Avex's early days, awash in Eurobeat.
The original version was recorded by Virginelle, and I've already pointed out where to find the song, but you can find it here. Besides the Eurobeat and the melody of the song, it's very different from the original, much more modern. Aiko starts the song with a run-through of the English-language chorus:
Carry on too many times for love / I only played as ever with your heart
I don't know, it's like a Fantasy / You're only mine, oh what a melody.
This single was the first of four singles she released in four consecutive weeks. The covers for all four singles feature a red rope that winds from left to right, and when the covers are placed side-by-side, the rope continues from one cover to the next.
Similarly, the PV's for all four songs are intertwined with vignettes of four different stories, centered around a large hotel.
In the first video, for Fantasy, Aiko plays a club girl who goes out with a gang of friends, male and female. They have a toast with flute-glasses at a table (but Aiko was 18 when this was filmed, so presume these drinks are non-alcoholic). They toss a balloon around their hotel suite and blow off 'champagne-popper' noisemakers. They participate in a giant dance sequence which features what I've always referred to as the 'oh my god, I stuck my hand in the fryer!' dance. See the PV and you'll know what I mean.
This Aiko character is cool, she's happy, and she's out having a good time. But apparently the ruckus that's coming from her hotel suite is bothering another guest. Another Aiko character bangs on the common wall and is trying to say, 'keep it down over there!' We'll find out what that's all about in the next PV.
Fantasy was featured as the ending theme for the TV Tokyo show GAME JOCKEY. I don't know what this show is about, so help me, if you can.
The song itself is a bit of a departure from Aiko's usual style (if she has one), the longest song she's ever recorded (5:38), and even if it wasn't intentional, it's an homage to Avex's early days, awash in Eurobeat.
The original version was recorded by Virginelle, and I've already pointed out where to find the song, but you can find it here. Besides the Eurobeat and the melody of the song, it's very different from the original, much more modern. Aiko starts the song with a run-through of the English-language chorus:
Carry on too many times for love / I only played as ever with your heart
I don't know, it's like a Fantasy / You're only mine, oh what a melody.
The PV is best in full-quality (buy the Aiko Kayohaku DVD!), where the rainbowed lens flares can show up in perfect focus, and you can see all the sparkle in Aiko's eyes. I'd take her to any club she wanted to go to, but over here she'd get a little turned off by all the bump-n'-grind that goes on at our clubs. So, it's back to the hotel room...
Aiko introducing her releases + TV ads
Here's Aiko, cute as always, introducing her then-new singles and albums:
SCORE!!!
Marking a record seven posts in one month, meanwhile providing some Aiko information. I finally figured out something that's been bugging the crap out of me since the first time I heard this song (almost three years ago).
New 'New Year's resolution': acquire all the Capsule music ever made. This stuff is catchy as hell!
At the start of 'Fantasy', Aiko sings something I presumed was English, because I never knew what she said. Looking back at my data, I noticed that the song was originally done by Virginelle. Lo and behold, the first couplets in Aiko's version of 'Fantasy' are from the chorus of the original song. Listen to it here.
Aiko sings (are you ready for this?):
"Carry on too many times for love / I only played as ever with your heart
I don't know, it's like a fantasy / You're only mine, oh what a melody"
Listen to Aiko again, and that's exactly what she's saying. This is the most English she's ever sung on record. I know, it doesn't make a lot of sense, and I know, it's hard to understand Aiko when she sings in 'Engrish'. But I finally figured out what she's singing! And now you can sing along, too.
Then, a few minutes later I discovered this little tidbit. Aiko sits in a cafe during the Aishite ne Motto video, and this same place is the setting for a Capsule video. Capsule was produced by the same guy who produces Perfume, and also did 'cosmic cosmetics'. Observe:
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