Akina Diva with Lavender Version
My private video dedication to Akina's new release of 'DIVA'
It's been a long time waiting for the beat. Words like 'dance-beat' and 'disco-music' are too shallow to cover the meaning. Akina is very talented in driving our mood--especially the mood deep down inside our hearts.
If being hurt, she said 'don't hurt';
if love withdraws, she declares;
if someone getting near, she shows not only her name, but her love for music.
Now who is she? She is inside us!
Akina represents a strong smelt of assertiveness---almost delineated herself from the traditional positioning of 'woman' in Japan!
But she never displays herself as alienated from 'love'---actually she cries for 'love'---softly, kindly and explicitly.
The new music with songs 'DIVA', 'X-Lady', 'Reverse', 'Heartbreak' and 'With' are very powerful in every sense. Her charm will never end. Remind you the lyrics in the songs, they tell some stories or meaning. Akina sings the songs, with lyrics telling some actions. But they are very recurrent, very recurrent in a way that you feel some heart-pain.
Just like the line "play back, go back, play back ---stop!" Very recurrent meaning embedded in her songs. I just remember the same feeling when I was watching the movie 'The reader". In the final, Kate Winslet played her cassett recorder again and again to learn the words---in fact she was learning to read the long losing 'love'!
I used to listen to Akina's songs, in fact, I am reading her.......




















































