Wow! I'm not sure if they still make this but it sure brings back memories. Pop rocks were quite the thing when I was in elementary and junior high school. Put a handful of these in your mouth and they would set off those tiny explosions.
I was reminded of the old candy when I first took notice of Hakushi Hasegawa's（長谷川白紙）"Kuchi no Hanabi" which directly translates into "Mouth Fireworks" but whose official English title is "Mouth Flash". A couple of years ago, I brought the singer-songwriter onto the blog with a couple of his works, the toy-heavy "Doku"（毒）and then the jazzier "Kusaki"（草木）. In both cases, there is a form of freewheeling avant-gardism in his songs and music videos.
Almost a half-year ago, Hasegawa put out "Kuchi no Hanabi" and this time, perhaps there's a bit of Okinawan in the beat or at least something subtropically tribal with some heavy percussion being thrown about. It's all melodic cacophony and I'll leave the website Songtell to provide the analysis of the lyrics. The video is entertaining with some roughly hewn anime characters, a visually creepy family and a dynamic dancer to interpret things.
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