Charisma.com -- Like It

 

Well, we did get our White Christmas, one of the few blessings here during this COVID-influenced Holiday. I was able to have a nice conversation with a couple of friends that I hadn't seen for several months via Skype this morning in which we talked about our different situations and how we've been keeping the virus at bay all this year. So it was pretty ironic and concerning a few hours later that I got the email from our condo's management company to announce that our superintendent and his wife have to self-isolate due to exposure. Our building will be getting that deep cleaning and our family is even more stringent about ensuring safety without our walls, so I'm not too worried, but the final week of 2020 may be a little antsy.

Launching today's round of "Kayo Kyoku Plus" on the final Sunday of the year, we've got Charisma.com with another catchy rap and stomping beat via their "Like It", a track from their March 2017 album "not not me". Written and composed by MC Itsuka with further composition collaboration by KO-ney, I think Itsuka and her partner back then, DJ Gonchi, just have a way to put together an addictive hip-pop tune just from listening to some of their works such as "Otsubone Rock"（お局ロック）that I wrote about back in September.

In the video for "Like It", the ladies are joined on their Momotaro-like quest by TEMPURA KIDZ, who had also shown up on "Mummy Killer" (ミイラキラー), the first time that "Kayo Kyoku Plus" heard about them and Charisma.com, thanks to Marcos V.'s article back in 2014, dance artist Koutei Sennin and his crew, and Pako and Tom (?). Got a nice little memory tour of Sugamo and Odaiba in Tokyo, too. As for the album, "not not me" peaked at No. 55 on Oricon.

You can have a further look at Koutei Sennin and his dance with fellow artist Poppin John.