As much as I compare Yellow Magic Orchestra with Germany's Kraftwerk, I see the band POLYSICS as being alongside Devo. Weird and quirky and fun and more musically rock than pop, I think that the band members for the former got their orange jumpsuit idea from the latter.
Strong Machine 2, aka Mao Murakami(村上真魚), had already come up with a dance for the entire song, so the powers-that-be were generous enough to create a video featuring just her titled as the Strong Machine 2 version.
"I My Me Mine" was also used as the theme song for "Takeyama Sensei?"(竹山先生?), a TV Tokyo variety show starring Cunning Takeyama(カンニング竹山)who I saw as being one of the "angrier" tarento out there. The above has Takeyama actually learning some dancing from Strong Machine 2 and her father, Strong Machine 1, who just happens to be a priest at Myouon-ji Temple(妙音寺)in Gunma Prefecture.
"Now is the Time!" peaked at No. 27 on Oricon.
Now in her early 20s, Strong Machine 2 is still dancing away with her Dad.
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