Mrs. GREEN APPLE -- Good Day

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Good day? Here? Meteorologically, no. It's rather dreary outside and in the next few hours, the temperature will plummet like Wile E. Coyote after foolishly running off a cliff.

However, we have here for Hump Day, Mrs. GREEN APPLE's big hit from September 2025, "Good Day". Written and composed by vocalist Motoki Ohmori（大森元貴）, it's a sunny side of fun and happiness that has a touch of that early 1970s Motown soul-funk and pop. Quite the day-glo colour scheme in the music video as well; I swear that the boys were going for that United Colours of Benetton pimp feeling. 

I know that actors do pop up in music videos anywhere around the world but I was still curious as to why Haruka Ayase（綾瀬はるか）, Minami Hamabe（浜辺美波）and Ryohei Suzuki（鈴木亮平）showed up in this video to represent different worlds. Well, it turns out that "Good Day" was supposed to become the theme song for the Kirin Good Ale commercial which features all three plus Ohmori.

"Good Day" was also performed on last year's Kohaku Utagassen on NHK with Mrs. Green Apple showing up as the second-last performer of the night. For reasons that I mentioned in my summary on the New Year's Eve special, I thought that "Good Day" should have been the one to finish off the festivities. It was fun and everyone could get to sing along. The song reached No. 3 on the Oricon Digital Singles chart.