Cross My Palm

Cross My Palm is the second studio album to be recorded in the United States, five years after her debut album Prologue (Jomaku) and the first studio album to be produced by western musicians and writers as David Batteau, Tony Humecke, Roger Daltrey, Julia Downes and Sandy Stewart.{{cite web|title=CRUISE (中森明菜 ) ワーナーミュージック・ジャパン - Warner Music Japan|url=http://www.wmg.jp/artist/akina/WPCL000010292.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430100956/http://www.wmg.jp/artist/akina/WPCL000010292.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 April 2009|publisher=Warner Music Japan}}{{cite web|title=中森明菜 Cross My Palm|url=https://artist.cdjournal.com/d/cross-my-palm/4113120062|website=CDJournel}}

Nakamori's inspiration for the album came from American films such as Top Gun and Footloose.{{cite journal |journal=Oricon Weekly |title=Oricon Weekly 3rd August Week 1987|author=Tooru Fujii|date=24 August 1987 |volume=411 |issue=33 |page=11}}

"Modern Woman" is a cover of "Femmes d'aujourd'hui" by French singer Jeanne Mas and the title track is a cover of the song by British writer Chris Morris.

"The Look That Kills" is an English-language self-cover of her 1987 No. 1 hit "Blonde". The single was released two months before the album's release. While the melody line resembles to the original, she performs it in the higher key tune than original, arrangement is slightly renewed and is sixteen seconds shorter.{{Cite AV media notes|title=Complete Single Collection: First Ten years (Akina Nakamori)|date=10 June 2009|author=堤昌司|publisher=Warner Music Japan|page=24|id=WPCL-10681/84}}

"Modern Woman" was used by Pioneer Corporation in a commercial to promote the Private CD770D mini component stereo system.

Four months after the release of album, a companion music video album was released on 21 December 1987. The video album features Nakamori as a musician who aims to go professional. It was filmed in New York City between 13 and 24 April 1987.{{cite web|title=中森明菜 Cross My Palm DVD|url=https://artist.cdjournal.com/d/cross-my-palm/4206040720|website=CDJournal}} "No More" includes a new remixed intro not found in the album version.While the original version is 3:15 in length, the video version is 4:00 The video received an award at the AVA Digital Content Grand Prix in 1987.

The companion photo book {{nihongo4|Akina Nakamori Visual Book Cross My Palm|中森明菜写真集 VISUAL BOOK Cross My Palm|Nakamori Akina shashin-shū Bijuaru Bukku Kurosu Mai Pāmu}} was released on 24 December 1987.{{cite book |last1=柴田 |first1=敬三 |title=中森明菜写真集 VISUAL BOOK Cross My Palm |date=1987 |publisher=Hontoki |location=New York |isbn=4-938568-03-9}}

On Fuji TV's music show Yoru no Hit Studio, Nakamori performed "Soft Touch" in Paris in 1989. She performed "The Look That Kills" on the 25 December 1987 episode of TV Asahi's Music Station.{{cite web|title=Artist Line-up 1987.12.25. Nakamori Akina. The Look That Kills |url=https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/music/contents/m_lineup/0059/index.html |website=Music Station Official Website |publisher=TV Asahi}}

Some tracks were performed in her live shows as well: During the live tour for A Hundred Days in 1987 she performed "Soft Touch", "Political Moves", and "The Look That Kills".{{cite web|title=中森明菜/ライヴ・イン'87～ア・ハンドレッド・デイズ|url=https://artist.cdjournal.com/d/-/2193100020|website=cdjournal.com}} She performed "Cross My Palm", "My Position", "Soft Touch", "The Look That Kills" and "No More" in the 1991 special live show "Yume".{{cite web|title=中森明菜/～夢～'91・アキナ・ナカモリ・スペシャル・ライヴ|url=https://artist.cdjournal.com/d/-/2193004073|website=CDJournal}}

Cross My Palm hit No. 1 on Oricon's weekly albums chart and sold 347,700 copies. The album remained at number 19 on Oricon's yearly albums chart in 1987.{{cite book |title=Oricon Album Chart Book Complete Edition 1970-2005 |date=25 April 2006 |publisher=オリコン・マーケティング・プロモーション |isbn=4871310779 |pages=3, 455–457, 883}}

The album was released in the United States in 1989 under Atlantic Records; however, it sold poorly in the country, peaking at No. 90 on the Billboard 200.{{cite news |url=https://www.avclub.com/america-will-love-heintje-11-failed-english-language-c-1798244077 |title=America will love Heintje: 11 failed English-language crossovers |first1=Mike |last1=Vago |first2=Ignatiy |last2=Vishnevetsky |first3=Molly |last3=Eichel |newspaper=The A.V. Club |date=1 February 2016 |access-date=26 October 2020}}{{Cite book|author=Record Certification Council|title=Music CD official official guidebook（下） - Chapter CD Journal |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AoFgIowII48C&dq=%E4%B8%AD%E6%A3%AE%E6%98%8E%E8%8F%9C&pg=PA135|accessdate=2012-03-15|date=2007-05-31|publisher=Ongaku Shubbansha|isbn=978-4861710308|page=135|chapter=Akina Nakamori}}

{{track listing

| total_length = 46:46

| title1 = Cross My Palm

| lyrics1 = {{hlist|Barrie Corbett|John De Plesses}}

| music1 = Chris Morris

| length1 = 3:42

| title2 = Political Moves

| lyrics2 = {{hlist|Julia Downes|Roger Bruno|Ellen Schwartz}}

| music2 = {{hlist|Downer|Bruno|Schwartz}}

| length2 = 4:27

| title3 = Slave for Love

| lyrics3 = {{hlist|David Batteau|Don Freeman}}

| music3 = {{hlist|Batteau|Freeman}}

| length3 = 3:54

| title4 = Easy Rider

| lyrics4 = {{hlist|Batteau|Danny Sembello|Gardner Cole}}

| music4 = {{hlist|Batteau|Sembello|Cole}}

| length4 = 4:13

| title5 = Modern Woman

| lyrics5 = Jeanne Mas

| music5 = {{hlist|Romano Musumarra|Roberto Zaneli}}

| length5 = 4:12

| title6 = The Look that kills

| lyrics6 = {{hlist|Biddu|Winston Sela}}

| music6 = {{hlist|Biddu|Sela}}

| length6 = 3:38

| title7 = Soft Touch

| lyrics7 = {{hlist|Steve Skaith|Steve Jeffries}}

| music7 = {{hlist|Skaith|Jeffries}}

| length7 = 3:34

| title8 = My Position

| lyrics8 = {{hlist|Humecke|Batteau|Robin Lane}}

| music8 = {{hlist|Humecke|Batteau|Lane}}

| length8 = 3:37

| title9 = The Touch of Heartache

| lyrics9 = {{hlist|Jill Colucci|Bruno|Schwartz}}

| music9 = {{hlist|Colucci|Bruno|Schwartz}}

| length9 = 4:13

| title10 = House of Love

| lyrics10 = Sandy Steward

| music10 = Steward

| length10 = 4:51

| title11 = No More

| lyrics11 = {{hlist|Skaith|Jeffries}}

| music11 = {{hlist|Skaith|Jeffries}}

| length11 = 3:10

| title12 = He's Just in Love with the Beat

| lyrics12 = {{hlist|Roy Freeland|Bruno|Schwartz}}

| music12 = {{hlist|Freeland|Bruno|Schwartz}}

| length12 = 3:15

}}

{{track listing

| headline = 2023 remaster reissue

| total_length = 79:00

| title13 = Cross My Palm

| note13 = movie Cross My Palm version

| lyrics13 = {{hlist|Barrie Corbett|John De Plesses}}

| music13 = Chris Morris

| length13 = 3:27

| title14 = The Touch of Heartache

| note14 = movie Cross My Palm version

| lyrics14 = {{hlist|Jill Colucci|Bruno|Schwartz}}

| music14 = {{hlist|Colucci|Bruno|Schwartz}}

| length14 = 4:07

| title15 = Easy Rider

| note15 = movie Cross My Palm version

| lyrics15 = {{hlist|Batteau|Danny Sembello|Gardner Cole}}

| music15 = {{hlist|Batteau|Sembello|Cole}}

| length15 = 4:19

| title16 = House of Love

| note16 = movie Cross My Palm version

| lyrics16 = Sandy Steward

| music16 = Steward

| length16 = 4:30

| title17 = Political Moves

| note17 = movie Cross My Palm version

| lyrics17 = {{hlist|Julia Downes|Roger Bruno|Ellen Schwartz}}

| music17 = {{hlist|Downer|Bruno|Schwartz}}

| length17 = 4:16

| title18 = The Look that kills

| note18 = movie Cross My Palm version

| lyrics18 = {{hlist|Biddu|Winston Sela}}

| music18 = {{hlist|Biddu|Sela}}

| length18 = 3:35

| title19 = Soft Touch

| note19 = movie Cross My Palm version

| lyrics19 = {{hlist|Steve Skaith|Steve Jeffries}}

| music19 = {{hlist|Skaith|Jeffries}}

| length19 = 4:33

| title20 = No More

| note20 = movie Cross My Palm version

| lyrics20 = {{hlist|Skaith|Jeffries}}

| music20 = {{hlist|Skaith|Jeffries}}

| length20 = 3:58

}}

Notes:

• "Modern Woman" is titled as "Modern Woman (Femme d'aujourd'hui)" in the album liner notes.

Notes:

• 2006 re-release includes 24-bit digitally remastered sound source
• 2012 and 2014 re-release includes subtitles in the tracks "2012 remaster"
• 2023 re-release includes lacquer remaster which includes subtitles in the tracks "2023 lacquer remaster" along with original karaoke version of the tracks

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