Mar 20, 2020
It was the scene in Richard Ayoade’s film The Double that made me realize how much this song means to me. Jesse Eisenberg’s character is on a tenuous first date, money goes in the jukebox, the music starts up, and I'm in tears. As a half-Japanese kid in the 90′s, this song crushed at family karaoke. But I was in Indiana far away from my Okinawan family. Confused about my roots.
So anyway, it was an honor to mash this 60′s J-pop classic with the indie rock I grew up on. Hope you enjoy!