World Order -- Boy Meets Girl

 

Welcome to the last few days of February. The temperature roller coaster has been continuing here in Toronto so we had a wind chill factor of -23 C on Saturday but by this coming Thursday, we may be up to +14 C. Whatever the meteorological case may be, our winter will likely end up as one of the warmest that we've had.

It's been a few years since I posted anything up for the song-and-dance group World Order starring former MMA athlete Genki Sudo（須藤元気）. I do remember when I first found out about them via their December 2014 song "Have A Nice Day" and more importantly, their performance as besuited automatons enjoying a disjointed stroll through areas such as Shibuya.

Now, I've gone even further back. In fact, I've dipped into their very first album "World Order" from July 2010 and realized that Sudo and the gang did a cover of trf's "Boy Meets Girl". I don't think that it eclipses the 1994 original by the techno song and dance group that Tetsuya Komuro（小室哲哉）built but it's still nice to hear the cover version and watch the guys doing their distinctive choreography while picking up some women during an evening encounter. Plus, you get to see a bit of what salaried workers in Japan do after they punch out of work. "World Order" managed to reach No. 82 on Oricon.

Ahhh...happy to find my favourite remix of "Boy Meets Girl". Man, was this a popular song back in the day!