[Autumn Love Songs] A selection of love songs that portray a bittersweet longing
As summer ends, autumn has a way of making us feel a little sentimental.
The slowly dropping temperatures, the season’s distinctive air, and the beautiful foliage…
In times like these, love songs really hit home, don’t they?
In this article, we’ll introduce plenty of love songs perfect for autumn!
By the way, don’t you feel like a lot of autumn love songs are about heartbreak?
A summer romance ends, and its lingering afterglow remains… Maybe autumn is just that kind of season.
But the end of one romance also means the beginning of a new one!
Listen to autumn love songs and enjoy a wonderful autumn romance.
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[Autumn Love Songs] A selection of romantic tracks portraying bittersweet feelings of love (91–100)
foreignerKUBOTA Saki
Featuring vocals that rise like smoke to the heavens, both the lyrical world and the melody are uniquely distinctive.
It brilliantly portrays a cool, confident woman in the lyrics, and it’s a song that could only be expressed through Saki Kubota’s exceptionally high level of vocal ability.
Her singing is so good it’s truly astonishing.
My loverGorin Mayumi
Mayumi Itsuwa’s “Koibito yo,” which begins with a stately, classical-music-like introduction, was released in 1980.
It was her 18th single.
It reached No.
1 on the Oricon chart and became her biggest hit and signature song among her singles.
Gondola on a Moonlit NightHorikawa Sanae
Sanae Horikawa’s debut single “Tsukiyo no Gondola,” released in 1991.
It exudes the quintessential vibe of idol songs from that era, and its lyrics about a young girl’s innocent first love bring a sweet, tangy feeling to the surface.
It makes you think, “Did I have a time like that too…?” and leaves you with a gentle ache of nostalgia.
Please give it a listen.
TSUKIAmuro Namie
Namie Amuro, a singer who enjoyed phenomenal popularity in the 1990s to the point of becoming a social phenomenon and is remembered as one of the divas of the Heisei era.
Her 41st single, “TSUKI,” used as the theme song for the film “I Just Wanna Hug You,” also garnered attention for its dreamlike music video filmed in Iceland.
The lyrics tell a story of gazing up at the moon while thinking of a beloved person you’ve parted from, stirring up a sentimental mood.
With its transparent, lucid vocals and a melody tinged with wistfulness, it’s a poignant yet beautiful number that resonates in the heart.
cosmos (flower)Yamaguchi Momoe
A super-famous song written and composed by Masashi Sada.
It’s a work that everyone recognizes as a classic for autumn.
A scene of a daughter soon to be married and her mother sitting on the engawa, watching cosmos flowers sway in the autumn breeze.
You could call it one of Japan’s quintessential pastoral images.
The song was released in 1977.