Timmy84 said:

You are just fascinated by this song, aren't you Timmy!!

shorttrini said:

Fuck yeah!

I noticed the singer has Japanese features. She must be mixed. Cool.

I've always loved this one as well as the follow-up "I'll Try Something New". I love the sound of the instrument being played in the two songs. It reminds me of the days of dining in the Chinese restaurants back when they were dark and candle-lit, had that type of music playing in the background, and seemed romantic. Nowadays, they are brightly lit with buffets and television sets playing BET.

I've always loved all things oriental from food to decor. Hell, parts of my house looks like you just stepped into China or Japan.

vainandy said:

I love houses that have Chinese/Japanese like literature on the walls. I got a little Japanese decoration on the side of my wall near my door.

You mean like the little symbols they use when they write? I've got a huge screen with those behind my couch. Then I've got about three vases with the same symbols and a rug with those symbols under a glass and stone coffee table. Not to mention the four black panels on the wall with the pale faced geisha girls and another screen with rice paper and an uplight behind it shining through. And I almost forget the two porcelan figures of geisha girls I gave my mother years ago but still haven't reclaimed them after her death. Oh, and the dragon I need to go get too. Hell, I've got a regular little Chinatown going on here.

vainandy said:

Yeah the symbols, lol

I don't know what the hell the symbols are saying. For all I know, they might be cuss words. All I know is they look good.
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vainandy said:

That's the beauty of the language, you can never tell what it means, lol.

I remember seeing this when it aired for I loved Solid Gold.

blackguitaristz said:

I remember when VH-1 reaired it I was like "that was some wild shit". In a GOOD way of course.

Timmy84 said:

A Taste Of Honey are BADASS!!!!!

send me a picture of those japanese characters if you want

i will tell you what they mean.....unless u do not want to know

my step brother got a japanese tattoo on his leg and the literal translation of it is "japanese word"

i remember the day i learned that Slick Rick had used Sukiyaki verses in his song LaDiDaDi

and now i live in the town that had the first Sukiyaki restaurant in the world

but the crap is nasty if you ask me

This song has such a great, 'sincere' feel to it, I have it on a mix cd in one of my books. Now I'll have to dig it up and give it a spin.

This and 'Boogie' are the only songs I know from them, are any other singles worth checking out?

Timmy84 said:

I love it, also.!! Love the lyrics.

Timmy84 said:

I just watched this, for the first time since it aired 20 year ago. You know something Timmy, that left a lump in my throat!! Let some of these "chicken headed" so-called artist try to sing, let alone re-write a song like that!! Damn!! This is going back into my ipod's "heavy rotation", playlist.

shorttrini said:

@ "chicken-headed" so called artists, I feel you tho... Janice Marie Johnson practically wrote her own version of what she thought the song was trying to portray. Even the original translation of Kyu Sakamoto's version was indecipherable, lol

Timmy84 said:

I once saw an episode of Casey Kasem's, "America's Top Ten", and I could have sworn that I heard Casey saying, that this song was based on an old Japanese folk song, about a man who was in love with a girl. Her father did not agree with the relationship and he had him locked up. He sings this song, while in jail. Janice got wind of it and re-wrote the song, based on that tale. Maybe I was dreaming, but I could have sworn I saw it.

shorttrini said:

No you're right. I think when Janice was told what the original song meant, she said "it can be interpreted differently" so in her case, she made the song about a bad relationship.