Today's playlist, the fifth in the series, features "THREE1989," a group comprised of three members born in 1989.Since I was born in 1991, we're roughly the same generation, so I feel a strong connection to what you're saying.
I've been consciously reading novels lately, and there's a line in one of Ryu Murakami's works where he's talking to a woman and says, "Music evokes images in your mind, for example, an oldie from 10 years ago. That time—" and that line has strangely stuck in my mind.
Images evoked by music.
From there, memories come to mind, and memories I don't want to remember. Relatively recent unpleasant experiences are vividly recalled as images, but it's strange how, after a considerable amount of time has passed and unpleasant memories are archived within oneself, the perception of them as "unpleasant" fades, and they become like pieces of paper that are no longer read.
Those of us born in 1989 and I, born in 1991, are in our early 30s. We've navigated the turbulent school life of the Heisei era, feeling that classroom collapse like what we saw in the drama "The Queen's Classroom" wasn't all that unusual, and I think we're the generation that styled our hair spiky with wax during high school.
The intro to "Asian Funky Ramen" reminds me of the jingle from Countdown TV, which I often watched late at night back when terrestrial television switched to digital broadcasting and analog TVs disappeared, and it also brings back memories of the early 2000s when I commuted to school on crowded Seibu Ikebukuro Line trains.
Now that I'm an adult, living in my favorite city, and have bought my favorite car, I find myself on the southbound Shibuya Line of the Metropolitan Expressway. With the start of the Reiwa era, the area around Shibuya Station has transformed into something like a different city, and as I listen to "Mona Lisa's Tears," images of the Ginza Line running at a height almost equal to the Metropolitan Expressway come to mind, and when I close my eyes, they are projected onto my entire body.
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