The mastermind of Pizzicato Five, Yasuharu Konishi, does, and seems to think that the world would be a better place if dance music were sillier. It is clearly intended as an antithesis of all the self-important music that inundates us. The latest album is our response to the dreary music that's becoming the mainstream on the dance music scene nowadays.
Dance music is supposed to come on when people are dancing, drinking and living it up.
Pizzicato Five are Konishi and songstress Maki Nomiya, whose courageous fashion statements accentuate her sensuous voice. Made In The U.S.A., Pizzicato's first album released in the United States, sold 200,000 copies. That album is a collection drawn from the duo's domestic releases. Konishi says the U.S. release of Happy End of the World is the same as the Japanese release. He said the local label is keen on English-language recordings by the duo.