HINOI Team - STICKY TRICKY AND BANG (English subbed) video free download

[Note on the discs and another version of the MV (Para Para Version)]

This song is the title tune of their fourth single "STICKY TRICKY AND BANG" (March 2006). It is contained also in their album "Super Euro Party" (March 2006) and this MV is contained in "+Video Disc" versions of the single and the album (Note that the region code of them is 2 [Europe, Japan, etc.], not 1 [USA and Canada]). There is another version of the MV (Para Para Version) of this song and it is contained only in "+Video Disc" version of the single. (Para Para Version isn't contained in "+Video Disc" version of the album. Because the single is released at nearly same time as that of the album and it is virtually a single cut from the album. So, Avex needed to make it a premium content of the single.) This song is a cover version of original song sung by "STICKY TRICKY AND BANG" (the artists having same name as the tune) [Super Eurobeat Vol.157 (April 2005)].

The CDs (single "STICKY TRICKY AND BANG" and album "Super Euro Party") containing this song are available in Japan even now. If you live in the other country, you can buy them at REASONABLE prices through internet from "YesAsia". Search it. You can buy them also from Amazon, but the prices of imported CDs at Amazon are too high.

[Note on Korikky's words "It's superfluous by one"]

Korikky (Koriki Choshu) is a comedian and pro-wrestler (as I explained in the "more info" of "Night of Fire"). He is accustomed to count for a fall (counting 3). So he says "It (counting 4) is superfluous by one" [for counting a fall].

[Note on the pantomime by Rina and Korikky]

In the scene of Rina's choice of clothes Korikky advices Rina on her fashion and he doesn't agree with her easily. But when she takes a black shirt, he is pleased with it and recommends it to her, then Rina is surprised by his terrible fashion sense. Korikky recommends the black shirt, because it is his costume. The Kanji characters "小力" (Koriki) are printed on the shirt.

[About Para Para]

Para Para is a kind of dance which was originated in Japan in 1980's. It is performed mainly (rather exclusively) at discotheques. In other words, it is scarcely performed at other social events. In this sense Para Para is a special culture in Japanese DISCOTHEQUE. So, there is no formal teacher of it and it isn't taught in dance schools in Japan except very special case. The people who teach choreography of Para Para are employees of discotheques. Otherwise, people, who want to dance it, learn it by themeselves, watching videos.

The characteristics of Para Para are (1) big movements of arms with steps, (2) group dancing with same choreography uniformly, (3) using mainly Eurobeat music. The (1) is also the characteristic of many Japanese traditional dances. And (2) is common with "Bon Odori" (Bon Dance) which is performed in Bon Festival (13--16 July in old calendar or 13--16 August in modern calendar, during which spirits of ancestors return to each family or home and people welcome them), though Bon Odori has many differences from Para Para. So Para Para seems to reflect Japanese dance tradition somehow and at times some people say that Para Pars is a sort of Bon Odori in the modern times.

[Para Para and HINOI Team]

This song was the last one with which HINOI Team danced Para Para. All the members of HINOI Team are from "Caless Vocal and Dance School" in Osaka. But as I wrote above, Para Para isn't taught at dance schools in Japan and no one go to dance schools to learn Para Para. At "Caless" they practiced jazz dance and hip-hop dance but never danced Para Para. And junior high school students in Japan are prohibited going to discotheque. So, Para Para was not the roots of their dancing (all the Japanese understand this without saying but people in other countries often misunderstand it). Dancing Para Para was the policy decided by Avex (music label) and Vision Factory (management company). In the next single "Now and Forever" they left Para Para and performed a modern dance. I guess the members wanted this. It would be natural, because they had learned more standard and more difficult dances than Para Para at "Caless".

The Para Para choreography of this performance is different from that of ordinary Para Para. Ordinarily every Para Para dancer must not move from initial standing position. For if people move widely from initial positions in crowded discotheque, they must have bumps. But choreography of this performance demands to run forward and backward. This is impossible in discotheques. Another extraordinary element of its choreography is the putting together of the palms of two persons facing each other. This is a Japanese children's play named "Sessesse". Children play this, keeping time to the rhythm of songs.