CANDY TUNE -- Bai Bai Fight!（倍倍FIGHT!）

 

As is the case with many people, I appreciate a swig of ice-cold orange juice in the morning, just before I plow into breakfast. That tang of citric acid is part of what I need (along with the cup of coffee) to rev myself up from too little sleep. 

Now, let's go back to the morning of December 31st 2025. Because of the 14-hour time difference between Toronto and Tokyo, the Kohaku Utagassen that started broadcasting at 7:30 pm JST was shown live here in my humble abode at 5:30 am EST. Of course, since the Japanese TV service Jme is a streaming service, I couldn't save the show into storage. Sure, the New Year's Eve special was also being shown at later times and dates up to January 3rd but I just had to see it live. Not exactly in the most alert or happiest of moods, I set everything up and the Kohaku began as scheduled. Then I saw this performance:

If I'm not mistaken, the aidoru group CANDY TUNE started the ball rolling for the 2025 edition and, boy did it wake me up...or maybe the better expression is that it blew me awake! All that cheerfulness and high-pitched voicing had a much more excessive effect on me than anything that orange juice could provide. The group only came into being in 2023 but around a year later in April 2024, they released their digital single "Bai Bai Fight!" (Double Double Fight!) as this dempagumi march of hyperspeed energy and happiness but for some reason, the ladies didn't get their invitation to the Kohaku until over a year later.

Couldn't quite sink down into my armchair to doze off after that and I actually held off on writing anything about this pure adrenaline of a song. But then, a few weeks ago when I was watching an excerpt on the national broadcaster's "Asaichi"（あさイチ）morning information program that dealt with the comedic duo Sandwich Man traveling to various hospitals to cheer up and talk with patients, I saw one conversation they had with one young man. Several months earlier, he had suffered a major stroke which left his left side paralyzed. To be sure, those were tough times but he stated that he stuck with the difficult rehabilitation regimen while listening to "Bai Bai Fight!" as an aural tonic to keep him putting up the fight, and he made it through perfectly. The power of music, eh? I found my hook to bring it onto the blog.

"Bai Bai Fight!" was written and composed by Tamaya 2060%（玉屋2060%）. May this energize you up!