フィッシュ‐ファイト!

When I stayed in Japan back in 2001, as the spring rolled on and the cherry blossoms did their thing, a curious bit of music appeared on Japanese television.  A bit of background, the J-Pop music scene consists of a lot of group bands, either boys or girls.  This one band, called Yaen, was formed as a joke.  This is what we could tell, at least.  In April 2001, we saw a bit of variety show that had about 8 guys on stage, performing a song called "Fish Fight!" They danced a silly coreography -- poorly. They pulled extremely silly faces in their close-ups. They -- and this is la piece de resistance -- wore giant, plastic FISH HEADS on their heads as they sang and "danced." After the song, they were interviewed, as is custom.  It seemed like half of them (at least) were tanked out of their mind.  Not only were they not speaking properly, but they were falling over each other.  In short, hilarity.  We scoured the internet whilst in Japan, attempting to find a video of these guys performing their silly song. Alas, our search was in vain. Until now!  I decided to get into it again, and I found the official music video.  It may be grainy, but it is still there.  A four year search (off and on) is over with a silly music video. This may not be making any sense right now, sorry, I am watching House, and it's hard to type while paying this much attention to the program.  I am looking for a place to put it on the internet, but I don't have anywhere to host a 10mb file.

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