Flush in the Curls

Flush in the Curls is a mid tempo city pop track that portrays an afternoon of mingled hope and unease before going to meet someone in a relationship that has yet to take shape.
A mirror by the window on a Saturday, hot rollers warming from a plugged in cord, a single pin holding a curl, the time counted until it cools, and one loosened curl that slips and falls create a restless scene where the question of whether the curl will hold hangs unanswered.

Performed by the fictional AI singer Akemi, the song captures the emotions of adulthood that call the joy of meeting nothing more than killing time, even as the hands have been moving since morning.
Inspired by the late 1970s to early 1980s Japanese new music and city pop, the track reimagines that era lyrical subtlety through images of a weekend afternoon, quiet time before a mirror, and the lift of heading down into the city.

When the pin comes out at the moment it has cooled, one curl comes undone and falls, and she does not fix it even as she sees it in the mirror.
Without ever saying that she curled her hair, she walks down the slope with the loosened arc left as it is and quietly stands beside the one who waits, drawing lines in the margins.
Produced by nanayon music.