Source: YouTube/Foorin, Oricon News, My Game News Flash So feel free to watch “Pakrika” on YouTube or stream it to your heart’s content on your favorite service.

However, as is the case with the original “Paprika,” Yonezu will donate all of his royalties from the song to the Japan Sport Council’s Sports Promotion Fund which enhances and expands the number of sports practiced by young people in Japan. With all these iterations of the same song, the more cynical among us might think that it’s just a cash grab. “I wonder if Kenshi Yonezu would make a self-cover the English version just like the original :0”Ī Yonezu English version might actually be in the cards if this video is any indication. If you listen carefully the last time the chorus is sung, you can hear an older man’s voice join in which, if I were a betting man, I’d say belongs to Yonezu himself. i sing this japan little but when i watch i can finally teach my friends and i know” “Im 8 years old my dad want me to learn japanese. “Wow! What a wonderful message! Let’s celebrate and grow together!” “I don’t know why, but this song reminds me of the good old days…” “The lyrics are in English but it feels like a direct translation.” “It’s cute when the kimono children come in the background.” Only a couple days since it hit YouTube, the English “Paprika” has already netted about 200,000 views and glowing reviews both from Japan and overseas. Paprika would get continuous airplay among Japanese public broadcaster NHK’s regular kid’s line-up as the performers, a team of varying-age kids known as Foorin, vigorously danced their way through an eclectic array of moves both professionally and cleverly just sloppily enough to encourage kids at home to dance along.Ībout a year and a half later, the official video racked up about 145 million views on YouTube, 265,892 of which I’m pretty sure are from my kids alone. It also spawned a self-cover by the song’s original writer and composer Yonezu with a more mature flavor, which netted an additional 59 million views in the span of only a few months. However, little did we know the song would infect our kids with an earworm the likes of which hadn’t been seen since Piko Taro. Back in the summer of 2018, a song was released by Japanese musician Kenshi Yonezu, who was already enjoying a string of hits at the time. This song, titled “Pakrika,” was performed by a group of peppy kids as a representative song of the upcoming Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo.

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