P-Model - "Sophisticated" Lyrics
I can't find the lyrics for P-Model's "Sophisticated" (which happen to be in English), so I am going to write down what I hear. (Corrections are always welcome.) This song is awesome, both for it's extremely socially critical content and the GLORIOUS little electronic blips and squeaks and clicks, which are particularly awesome when you listen to this song with headphones.
P-Model - "Sophisticated"
Sophisticated, the supermarket
Sophisticated, the apartment
Sophisticated, the fried chicken*
Sophisticated, the make-up hanging up
Sophisticated, the speaking thinking
Sophisticated, the masturbation
Sophisticated, the Japanese girls
Sophisticated, the Japanese boys
Sophisticated television image
Sophisticated, the school boys' deaths**
Sophisticated, the music play
Sophisticated, the foreign language song
(repeat all)
Translation Notes:
* Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan was established in 1970 and (after a floundering start in Nagoya) eventually opened its first Tokyo store in 1971 in Aoyama. The official KFC Japan legend is that at this very store, a foreigner in Japan came by one day and said, "I can't find turkey in Japan, so I think I'll use KFC's chicken at my Christmas dinner instead." In 1974, KFC Japan started having an annual campaign of selling chicken for Christmas, which caught on to the point that many Japanese continue to associate fried chicken with Christmas, to the bemusement of many Westerners. The KFC boom is just another example of the extreme westernization sweeping through Japan at the time.
** The Japan Police Agency apparently started collecting data on the number of student suicides in 1978, which oddly fits with the timing of this song. Don't know if there was an uptick in student suicides or something, though.
This entry was originally posted at http://phonon-belt.dreamwidth.org/12451.html.
P-Model - "Sophisticated"
Sophisticated, the supermarket
Sophisticated, the apartment
Sophisticated, the fried chicken*
Sophisticated, the make-up hanging up
Sophisticated, the speaking thinking
Sophisticated, the masturbation
Sophisticated, the Japanese girls
Sophisticated, the Japanese boys
Sophisticated television image
Sophisticated, the school boys' deaths**
Sophisticated, the music play
Sophisticated, the foreign language song
(repeat all)
Translation Notes:
* Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan was established in 1970 and (after a floundering start in Nagoya) eventually opened its first Tokyo store in 1971 in Aoyama. The official KFC Japan legend is that at this very store, a foreigner in Japan came by one day and said, "I can't find turkey in Japan, so I think I'll use KFC's chicken at my Christmas dinner instead." In 1974, KFC Japan started having an annual campaign of selling chicken for Christmas, which caught on to the point that many Japanese continue to associate fried chicken with Christmas, to the bemusement of many Westerners. The KFC boom is just another example of the extreme westernization sweeping through Japan at the time.
** The Japan Police Agency apparently started collecting data on the number of student suicides in 1978, which oddly fits with the timing of this song. Don't know if there was an uptick in student suicides or something, though.
This entry was originally posted at http://phonon-belt.dreamwidth.org/12451.html.