What's The Story?
Fujiya & Miyagi are an English group that started as a duo, but are now a quartet. They play minimalist, catchy pop rock. The track is from their largest commercial success, Lightbulbs.
Who's To Blame?
Two sweet friends whose names are neither Fujiya nor Miyagi.
Why ♥ It?
Vanilla, strawberry, knickerbocker glory.
Part of me would like to leave the post at that to do justice to the awesome minimalist style of the tune, but I like to talk (type?) so nevermind that. The song kicks in with a voice intro repeating the above for a few seconds, and then kicks into the main track: a constant, single bass note & about the simplest drum beat possible. They play with this format, adding bits of guitar & keys as the song progresses, but the spine of the track is one note, one beat and a stream of consciousness lyrical style that's more thought out than it first appears.
The lyrics themselves aren't minimalist at all, North American swine such as myself will find themselves Googling to figure out who in the hell Lena Zavaroni is, and what she has to do with anything.
Plain and simple, everything about this song is mindvirus, and I'm down with that.
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