tofubeats feat. Takashi Fujii -- Disco no Kamisama（ディスコの神様）

 

I don't get to see actor/bon vivant Takashi Fujii（藤井隆）all that much anymore and when I have seen him recently, he's been tackling more serious roles. However, I still remember him in his early days when he was doing his manic dancing, yelling out "Hot! Hot!" and acting as one of the most flamboyant weirdos out there in Japanese entertainment, and that's saying a lot, if one knows who often populates the comedic region in the geinokai.

Once he got his feet firmly in place as a bona fide celebrity, Fujii created his persona of Matthew Minami who had his own show on TV Asahi in the early 2000s. He even got to exercise his music muscles into the early 2010s with his most famous tune being his debut single "Nandakanda" (ナンダカンダ) in 2000.

This particular single, though, isn't part of Fujii's discography. It's actually part of tofubeats' discography as the singer and DJ released "Disco no Kamisama" (Disco God) in April 2014. Seeing Fujii in the title, I could pick up on that slightly nasal voice immediately and it's good to see that he still has the flexible moves in him. I was fully expecting to see him in the music video dancing and prancing all over the disco floor but instead the video shows the atypical scenes out of the ordinary lives of four young women. That is, until he and tofubeats suddenly show up in a living room to perform their way to the end. Not particularly a standout song by tofubeats but it's good to see Fujii again.