I don't even know what to write here. Ridiculous bouncy electropop with horns and ridiculously bouncy vocals and ridiculously bouncy piano and jazzy influences and ridiculously upbeat melody. It's got that "cool because it's so over the top and ridiculous" feel? Seems like a characteristic of the genre though. Anyway, "Shibuya-kei (渋谷系) is a sub-genre of Japanese pop music which originated in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. It is best described as a mix between jazz, pop, and electropop." Yup. Oh and also according to Wikipedia the genre was influenced by French Yé-yé music, a style of pop music that emerged from France, Québec and Spain in the early 1960s. It’s amazing how in this age influences can come from everywhere in the world. While I’d hate to see the world’s music all move in the same universal direction, it’s still cool to see fusions of genres from all over, and the product is almost always at least unique and interesting, if not great. In this case it’s just unique and weird, your mileage may vary on whether it’s great or not.
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