Track Focus: Saori Atsumi, “Mou Sukoshi”

Representing Japan in the popular girl with a guitar category, folk-rocker and bokukko Saori Atsumi penned my favorite J-Pop love song, Mou Sukoshi (”A Little More”). A delicate, sweet but strangely haunting melody, the lyrics tread that delicate balance between teenaged crush and deepening adult relationship.

Apparently this song sincerely moved a lot of people; somewhere in the Youtube thread, there’s a strangely touching comment by a certain gentleman that the song “embodies the purity of love before the complications of sexuality.” How true. Although we should remind ourselves that sexuality is nothing to be ashamed of

Saori Atsumi on Wikipedia