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なかなか飽きない曲って何？と聞かれたとしてすぐに心に浮かぶ曲の一つが，東京事変,2007年発売の「キラーチューン」です。USBのフォルダーに入れた曲をランダムで聞く時にも，これがかかるといまだにワクワクします。この曲のMVももう何回観たか知れません。作曲はキーボードの伊澤一葉さんで，作詞は椎名林檎さんです。この曲のデモを聴いた林檎の口をついて出た言葉が「この曲はキラーチューンだ」というエピソードをよく目にしますが，心から納得です。こんなにキャッチーで親しみやすいメロディーの曲を作れるなんて本当にすごいと思います。
If I was asked by someone “What song do you think is that you can’t get enough of?”, I’d say “It’s ‘Killer Tune’.”, Killer Tune was released in 2007 and sung by Tokyo Jihen. I’d still become excited even now when I happen to hear this song played. I don’t know how many times I watched the MV of it, It was composed by Ichiyo Izawa, the keyboardist of the band, and the lyrics were written by Ringo Sheena. I often see the episode that Ringo involuntarily said “This is a Killer Tune!” when she listened to the demo tape for the first time, and I agree with her from the bottom of my heart. I think it is really great to be able to make such a song with catchy melody that makes listeners so happy.
東京事変は，ハードな曲も多いけど，「群青日和」や「閃光少女」，「女の子は誰でも」そして「２１世紀宇宙の子」など，めちゃくちゃキャッチーな曲が多数ありますよね。本当に素晴らしいバンドで，解散したのが残念でなりません。先日，林檎の「百鬼夜行」ツアーのDVDを見ましたが，事変の曲も取り上げていて，しかも，浮雲さんや初期のキーボードのヒイズミマサユ機さんまで参加していて，今でもつながりがあることがわかって喜びました。
Tokyo Jihen had so many hard rock tunes but also had many catchy songs like “Gunjyo Biyori”, ”Senkou Shojyo”, “Onnanoko wa Daredemo”,”21seiki Utyuu no Ko” and so on. I think this band was so good and am really sorry about their split-up. I watched a DVD of the Ringo's concert tour titled “Hyakki Yako”the other day, when I was glad to see a couple of Jihen’s songs were selected, plus some members like Ukigumo who was the guitarist and Masayuki Hiizumi who was the former Keyboardist joined the tour.
