Showing posts with label tentenko. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Tentenko - Good Bye Good Girl Lyrics Translation v.2



I live in an apartment facing Yamate street
Five minute's walk from Yoyogi Hachiman station
This year'll be my third as an office lady

My ceiling's concrete
And my bed's made of plywood
In this room stained with red
I've left a clue

According to her neighbors
Good girl, she's a good girl
But every week
She's out all night on Fridays

Good bye, lalala SAYONARA
To my diary filled up with dreams
Where'd she go off to?
Nobody knows
The points and lines connect

Good bye, lalala SAYONARA
To those pink-colored earrings
Just one had fallen to the ground
That was my only blind spot

In Uguisudani in the Taito ward
At Moto Mishima shrine
A number of people came forth
They said she was there every Friday night

Wearing heels with a red dress
No matter how you looked at it, I was a whore
I was hiding a secret
In those pink-colored earrings

According to her classmates
Good girl, she was a good girl
But unbeknownst to them all
There was a side of her she was keeping secret

Good bye, lalala SAYONARA
To my diary filled up with dreams
Where'd she go off to?
Nobody knows
The points and lines connect

Good bye, lalala SAYONARA
To those pink-colored earrings
Just one had fallen to the ground
That was my only blind spot

According to her parents
Good girl, she was a good girl
But from time to time
She'd stare off in the distance

Good bye, lalala SAYONARA
To my diary filled up with dreams
Where'd she go off to?
Nobody knows
The points and lines connect

Good bye, lalala SAYONARA
To those pink-colored earrings
Just one had fallen to the ground
That was my only blind spot

This song is one I consider really important to me and as I've continued in my Japanese studies I've become really dissatisfied with what I attempted to translate in the past. I'm not anywhere near fluent, but I'd at least like to remedy some of the problems that were present in my old translation. I've deleted the old one, additionally. I'm not sure anyone looks here, but if you are then I hope you can find some meaning in this. Thanks!

Read about the inspiration behind the song's lyrics here!

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Tentenko - Good bye, Good girl


 I fairly recently acquired a copy of Tentenko's debut solo single, "Good bye, Good girl." Tentenko, previously a member of the popular "anti-idol" group BiS (Brand-new idol Society), began a crowdfunding campaign in October of 2014 with the goal of releasing a solo CD featuring music she had composed and performed on her own. The campaign raised over one million yen in a day (approximately nine thousand US dollars at the exchange rate at that time.)

Good bye, Good girl is an 80s-stylized song featuring a music video filmed entirely with a VHS camera. It's almost impossible to tell that this was filmed recently, the only things giving it away are small slip-ups in the background such as someone holding a smartphone.

 
The EP was released on January 14th, 2015 in two types, aptly named type 1 and type 2. Its highest position on Oricon's sales-tracking charts was #32.

Type 1 Cover Art

Type 2 Cover Art
Type 1 features a remix of the title track by Pellycolo, whereas type 2 features a remix of the B-side featured on both types, Hot Pants, by Seki from NATURE DANGER GANG.

If you are interested in buying this single, please check out the links below.
Type 1 (CDJapan)
Type 2 (CDJapan)