Other hit songs include Summer Candles and Dolphin Ring, both of which became standard songs played at Japanese wedding and receptions. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Anri's albums were bestsellers. She is often cited as being one the first Japanese singers to fuse Britain and American music into j-pop. She has highly successful tours—one with attendance of almost 100,000—and toured Hawaii for the first time in 1987. She was given a boost by singing the closing theme for the 1998 Winter Olympics at Nagano. In 2002, she began collaborating with jazz fusion guitarist Lee Ritenour who produced her 2002 LP "Smooth Jam - Quiet Storm".
Shyness Boy
杏里 Lyrics
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かけてきたのは あなたの方からよ
いつも電話の声は
ありきたりな事ばかり 言ってるの
You are my shyness boy 待ってるのよ
誘いの言葉
もどかしさなら今日かぎりにしてほしい
夜のドライヴの後で
遅いから送るよなんて あんまりね
今日は朝までずっと
一緒にいられるようにしてあるの
You are my shyness boy じれったいの
あなたの愛は
タバコ持つ手もふるえてるわ
ダメな人!!
You are my shyness boy 待ってるのよ
きまり文句を
やさしすぎるあなたの瞳
そこが好き!!
You are my shyness boy 待ってるのよ
誘いの言葉
もどかしさなら今日かぎりにしてほしい
You are my shyness boy 待ってるのよ
きまり文句を
やさしすぎるあなたの瞳
そこが好き!!
The song "Shyness Boy" by Japanese singer 杏里, is a sweet and uplifting love song about a shy boy whom she has fallen in love with. In the first verse, 杏里 sings about how he had approached her at a summer party, breaking the ice and initiating conversation with her. She then acknowledges that although they talk frequently, his words during their phone conversations are all uninteresting and typical. However, despite this, she has strong feelings for him.
杏里 then goes on to describe how after a late-night drive, he insists on making sure she gets home safely, and for that night they can be together until the morning. She admits that his hesitant and awkward behavior can sometimes be frustrating, but at the same time, it's one of the things that she loves about him. Throughout the song, 杏里 repeats "You are my shyness boy," emphasizing that his shyness is a part of what makes him so endearing to her.
Overall, "Shyness Boy" is a joyful and heartfelt tribute to the beauty in shyness, and the vulnerability and tenderness it can evoke in someone's personality.
Line by Line Meaning
夏の Partyで声を
You approached me at a summer party.
かけてきたのは あなたの方からよ
You were the one who started the conversation.
いつも電話の声は
But on the phone,
ありきたりな事ばかり 言ってるの
You always say boring things.
You are my shyness boy 待ってるのよ
You are the boy I'm waiting for, my shy love.
誘いの言葉
But when you invite me out,
もどかしさなら今日かぎりにしてほしい
It's frustrating, so please do it just for today.
I'm falling love・・・!
I'm falling in love with you!
夜のドライヴの後で
After a night drive,
遅いから送るよなんて あんまりね
Saying 'I'll take you home because it's late' is not enough.
今日は朝までずっと
Tonight, I want to be with you until morning.
一緒にいられるようにしてあるの
I've planned to make it happen.
じれったいの
It's frustrating sometimes,
あなたの愛は
because your love,
タバコ持つ手もふるえてるわ
makes your hands shaking even when holding a cigarette.
ダメな人!!
You're so bad for my heart!
きまり文句を
But your rehearsed words,
やさしすぎるあなたの瞳
and your gentle eyes,
そこが好き!!
are what I love about you!
Writer(s): 角松 敏生, 角松 敏生
Contributed by Evelyn T. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@jeremiebornais400
Natsu no party de koe wo
Kakete kita no wa anata no
Hou kara yo
Itsumo denwa no koe wa
Arikitari na koto bakari itteru no
You are my shyness boy
Matteru no yo
Sasoi no kotoba
Modokashisa nara kyou
Kagiri ni Shite hoshii
I'm falling love!
Yoru no
Doraivu no ato de
Osoi kara okuru yo nante
Anmari ne
Kyou wa
Asa made zutto
Issho ni irareru you ni
Shite aru no
You are my shyness boy
jirettai no
Anata no ai wa
Tabako motsu te mo furueteru wa
Dame na hito!
You are my shyness boy
Matteru no yo
Kimari-monku wo
Yasashisugiru anata no hitomi
Soko ga suki!!
You are my shyness boy
Matteru no yo
Sasoi no kotoba
Modokashisa nara kyou
Kagiri ni Shite hoshii
I'm falling love!
You are my shyness boy
matteru no yo
Kimari-monku wo
Yasashisugiru anata no hitomi
Soko ga suki!!
@carpkachan8376
At the summer party,
I never forget you talked to me
Your voice on the phone always says only cliches
You are my shyness boy
I'm waiting for your temptation words
I hope today's the last day of my frustration
I'm falling in love!
After a night drive with you,
"It's getting late, so I'll drive you home" That's a bit much
I get ready to be able to stay with you until dawn
You are my shyness boy
I'm so frustrated by your love
Your hand you hold a cigarette are shaking
you're so useless!
You are my shyness boy
I'm waiting for your cliches
Too tender eyes of yours
That's what I love about you!
You are my shyness boy
I'm waiting for your temptation words
I hope today's the last day of my frustration
I'm falling in love!
You are my shyness boy
I'm waiting for your cliches
Too tender eyes of yours
That's what I love about you!
@starlightmishi
Natsu no PARTY de koe o
kake te ki ta no wa anata no hō kara yo
itsumo denwa no koe wa
ari ki tari na koto bakari itteru no
YOU ARE MY SHYNESS BOY matteru no yo
sasoi no kotoba
modokashi sa nara kyō kagiri ni shi te hoshii
I'M FALLING LOVE
yoru no DORAIBU no nochi de
osoi kara okuru yo nante anmari ne
kyō wa asa made zutto
issho ni irareru yō ni shi te aru no
YOU ARE MY SHYNESS BOY jirettai no
anata no ai wa
tabako motsu te mo furueteru wa
dame na hito !!
YOU ARE MY SHYNESS BOY matteru no yo
kimari monku o
yasashi sugiru anata no hitomi
soko ga suki !!
YOU ARE MY SHYNESS BOY matteru no yo
sasoi no kotoba
modokashi sa nara kyō kagiri ni shi te hoshii
YOU ARE MY SHYNESS BOY matteru no yo
kimari monku o
yasashi sugiru anata no hitomi
soko ga suki !!
@confuzionn4843
how did i end up here? well let me tell you...
it started one day in a highschool classroom learning spanish one. bored out of my mind given the task to use the computers to learn online spanish flashcards, but instead my classmate two seats over is playing a game online. I ask him what's he playing and it's quickly downhill from here. every moment on a computer i get in a class i don't care about, i am playing that game. that damned first person game. the time, the amount of hours if I could track how many is unreasonable, for no reason other than instinct and stupidity. my class right after lunch was just yearbook, and it was god awful boring. it honestly was the most useless class that anyone could have, however, it always had those computers, every day, day after day. my friends alex and yosef, seniors at the time, would play it with me until they got sick of it, and then i would continue. sometimes i went on spurs of other online games, but most of the time i spent with them, doing absolutely nothing else but play that game.
as summer starts, and i wave good bye to friends i am sure to never see again, despite all the good times i've have with them, i do nothing. sit and learn, and sometimes study. those two months of summer vacation fly, and after my own senior year starts. week one passes. and then week two. and then in week three, an assignment requires that we have our computers, and i get that itch, the eerie feeling that that i once had almost a year ago sitting in a classroom. i open my browser, type in the words, and all of a sudden i'm back exactly where i had started.
however, this time is different. i am a computer science student and a computer science nerd, and it shows. there lies a bug inside me to hack this game, i don't know how, and i don't know exactly why, but it comes to me. that feeling, that bug, it turns into an obsession. the idea that i know it's possible, but i don't know how yet. looking online i find a forum linked to a python script that says it can do it. scrolling through it seems that users that post have the option of having some kind of stamp, like a picture or link, and one of those stamps is this video, listening.
that's where i am today. on a computer, on a saturday, at night, trying to hack into a game that friends i will never talk to again, friends i had some of the most memorable time of my highschool life with, played. writing this is a nostalgia trip of a level i've never experienced. i sat here and almost cried. i had to stop. i will never be this young, or care free ever again in my life. nothing from this point on will be as good as the feeling of sitting in a class with friends, nothing better to do, and a computer game that means nothing.
no one will read this, and this might as well be a journal entry into my computer, but it is still worth writing. somehow, sitting alone, with no one here with me, in a slightly dimmed room has brought me some kind of nostalgia or happiness or something.
alex, and yosef. best of luck to the both of you. it makes no difference to you two, but you were probably the best friends i had in all of my highschool, however sad that may be. everything i've done, everything i've learned, and everything i've seen, has led me to some 1980s japanese song. this will be the most reminiscent song, of a a place i can't visit. a time i can't visit.
thank you.
@jeremiebornais400
Natsu no party de koe wo
Kakete kita no wa anata no
Hou kara yo
Itsumo denwa no koe wa
Arikitari na koto bakari itteru no
You are my shyness boy
Matteru no yo
Sasoi no kotoba
Modokashisa nara kyou
Kagiri ni Shite hoshii
I'm falling love!
Yoru no
Doraivu no ato de
Osoi kara okuru yo nante
Anmari ne
Kyou wa
Asa made zutto
Issho ni irareru you ni
Shite aru no
You are my shyness boy
jirettai no
Anata no ai wa
Tabako motsu te mo furueteru wa
Dame na hito!
You are my shyness boy
Matteru no yo
Kimari-monku wo
Yasashisugiru anata no hitomi
Soko ga suki!!
You are my shyness boy
Matteru no yo
Sasoi no kotoba
Modokashisa nara kyou
Kagiri ni Shite hoshii
I'm falling love!
You are my shyness boy
matteru no yo
Kimari-monku wo
Yasashisugiru anata no hitomi
Soko ga suki!!
@gabe5109
It sounds like she doesn't say "I'm falling in love." but she does.
@jeremiebornais400
Ga Be it sounds to me more like she's just saying "I'm falling love", probably due to transition error
@shampooman3091
thank you nikola tesla
@MrRIIISEN
arigatou gozaimasu my tomodachi!
@cherryocate5250
Jeremie Bornais thanks for the lyrics.. now I can do practice 😊
@carlospwk
PSA : Not all Japanese karaoke machines have this song. They have a ton of ANRI but this one is pretty obscure. So remember that before spending forever learning the lyrics only to not have the song in the machine lol
@CHOCOLATIONZ
I was also looking for Remember summer days and surprise in summer in karaoke machines too. Sadly they weren't in there
@carlospwk
Watson C. The ＳＴＲＵＧＧＬＥ is real 🌝
@user-hx3ek6ch9r
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