My dog loves this song.

My dachshund is very finicky when it comes to eating his food. He's not so bad that I have to hand feed him each bite of kibble, but typically I have to do some sort of activity around him to motivate him to eat. This can be relatively simple, typically I have to kick a ball around on the floor near him, occasionally letting him grab it and take it over to his food bowl, where I reclaim it and kick it around some more as he eats.

Sometimes that does not work and I have to introduce variants of this behavior: sometimes I have to pick up the ball and bounce it off the floor and catch it repeatedly; sometimes I have to play wall-soccer with the ball; and other times, I have to play music. That's where this song comes in.

I discovered this song thanks to TikTok, which seems to be the theme of this week as the last three songs I've posted have been TikTok discoveries. Since I don't have a commute anymore, the ball-kicking-or-bouncing periods of the morning and evening have become prime "listen to new music" times for me. This is how I discovered that my dog loves this song.

Now, maybe it's just the result of "it's always in the last place you look", but I feel I've seen solid evidence that this song gets my dog excited enough to eat his food fairly reliably, when no amount of ball kicking or bouncing has enticed him.

And who could blame him? This song fucking rules. It's so funky. It's infectious. I'd sing along, but I don't think my mouth makes the right shapes. Apple Music Sing has karaoke mode for this song with anglicized Japanese so people like me can sing along, but when I do it, it sounds like I'm performing the Simlish version of the song, it's just not right.

This video is a lot of fun, too. In the YouTube comments, someone says the whole video was shot in one take; another person disagrees, saying the cuts are only well disguised. What do I think? I have no idea, I use TikTok, I don't have the attention span to sit through an entire music video without getting distracted. You watch it and tell me. You could talk about this song over on my Discourse server if you really wanted to. Really!

It would also be unacceptable for me not to call out the chick bassist. What is it about a chick bassist in a band that makes every guy on the internet go "omfg, a chick bassist, so bad ass, wow", like it's so unheard of, as if she were wielding a battle axe three times her size? Keep it in your pants, fellas.