Crimson (Akina Nakamori album)

Crimson is the tenth studio album by Japanese singer Akina Nakamori. It was released on 24 December 1986 under the Warner Pioneer label. The album includes the original version of Eki.

It was her first album to work with mostly female songwriters such as Mariya Takeuchi and Akiko Kobayashi who primarily composed of this album.

Four months after the release of Fushigi which was subtly experimental and eccentric, Nakamori returned to a conventional sound except with the experimentation of Mick Jagger Ni Hohoemio that was experimented with sound effects such as typewriting, stirring and playing an cassette tape, also Nakamori sings in a quieter, whispering tone as usually she vocalized herself with the use of falsetto.

Crimson was considered by critics it as a essential city pop album and becoming her most commercially successful album at that time. Oh No Oh Yes was becoming viral a few decades later, due to the rise of vaporwave genre and V of BTS has streamed this song during a live streamed event which Jungkook recommended, it became Nakamori one of most well known songs even before.