Orange Lounge -- Love is Orange

 

At this point, I think I can honestly say that when it comes to fruits as part of Japanese band names, orange wins out easily. On "Kayo Kyoku Plus" at least, we have the Mixture Rock band Orange Range, the jazzy orange pekoe and the aidoru group Orange Sisters, and it's no wonder. There's nothing like orange juice to wake folks up with that citric tang!🟠

I don't do any sort of gaming but I have heard of Beatmania in which a player plies their ability as a DJ. Of course, there are plenty of songs to compete upon, and the 2002 "Beatmania IIDX 8th Style" included this one number called "Love is Orange" which is this fairly peppy James Bond-friendly jazz number sung in French (the genre is given as Hard Chanson). The newest orange addition to KKP was responsible for this distinct tune and they are known as Orange Lounge consisting of Konami game music composer Tomosuke Funaki（舟木智介）and vocalist Shizue Tokui.

A few years in 2005, Funaki released an album titled "Marble" (under one of his noms de guerre, TOMOSUKE) and from it, a slightly more languid version of "Love is Orange" was included. It still has some elements of that Bond jazz in there but I consider it more as a techno 60s French pop ditty. From the lovely French delivery of Tokui, one would think that the song is about a breezy footloose-and-fancy-free walk down Les Champs-Elysees in Paris, but the lyrics actually depict some nasty romantic breakup.