is Perfume

Perfume (group)

Perfume is a Japanese all-girl trio from Hiroshima, Japan, consisting of Ayano Ōmoto, Yuka Kashino, and Ayaka Nishiwaki. They debuted locally in 2001 and made their transition to a major label in 2005, focusing more on electropop...

's second single from their second album Game and 10th overall. Appropriately, the song's bridge is polyrhythm

Polyrhythm

Polyrhythm is the simultaneous sounding of two or more independent rhythms.Polyrhythm in general is a nonspecific term for the simultaneous occurrence of two or more conflicting rhythms, of which cross-rhythm is a specific and definable subset.—Novotney Polyrhythms can be distinguished from...

ic, incorporating 5/8, 6/8 in the vocals, common time

Common Time

"Common Time" is a science fiction short story written by James Blish. It first appeared in the August 1953 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and has been reprinted several times: in the 1959 short-story collection Galactic Cluster; in The Testament of Andros ; in The Penguin Science Fiction...

 (4/4) and 3/2 in the drums. Tokuma Japan Communications originally requested for the bridge of the song to be removed for its atypical nature; a concession was reached by including a radio edit known as the "Extra Short Edit" on the single, which removes the bridge while the vocoded backing vocal on the near-end of the song (at 3:02) is half-distorted. The song was used for the Kankyō Recycle Campaign by NHK

NHK

NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....

. The single has 2 editions: a CD only version and CD+DVD version. The only difference between the CD and CD+DVD version is that the CD+DVD version has the music video of Polyrhythm.

Polyrhythm appears in Konami

Konami

is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...

's Dance Dance Revolution

Dance Dance Revolution

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, pop'n music

Pop'n Music

, commonly abbreviated as Pop'n, PM or PNM, is a music video game in the Bemani series made by the Konami Corporation. This game is known for its bright colors, upbeat songs, and cartoon character graphics...

, covered by Pink Lemonade, and Namco

Namco

is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two companies' game production assets were spun off into Namco Bandai Games on March 31, 2006. Namco Ltd. was re-established to continue domestic operation of...

's Taiko no Tatsujin

Taiko no Tatsujin

is a series of rhythm games created by Namco. The series has seen releases for the arcade, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Wii, iOS, Advanced Pico Beena, and mobile phones....

. Former Megadeth

Megadeth

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 guitarist Marty Friedman also released his own version of the song on his album Tokyo Jukebox

Tokyo Jukebox

Tokyo Jukebox is a studio album by the American guitarist Marty Friedman. The album is a collection of his cover of 11 J-pop songs and 1 J-Rock song, produced and arranged by Marty Friedman himself. The songs were chosen in part by the readers of Nikkei Entertainment! and in part by Marty Friedman...

. The song appeared in the film and soundtrack for the Pixar

Pixar

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 film Cars 2

Cars 2

Cars 2 is a 2011 American computer-animated action film produced by Pixar, and it is the sequel to the 2006 film, Cars. In the film, race car Lightning McQueen and tow truck Mater head to Japan and Europe to compete in the World Grand Prix, but Mater becomes sidetracked with international espionage...

.The director of Cars 2, John Lasseter was happy to see the girls there and said "The moment I listened to Polyrhythm, I loved it as it was like falling in love."

CD

2. "Seventh Heaven"
3. "Polyrhythm: Extra Short Edit"
4. "Polyrhythm: Original Instrumental"
5. "Seventh Heaven: Original Instrumental"

External links

• Polyrhythm on the Tokuma Japan Communications Official Site