I think the one standout element is the guitar work, which carries the song with this prominent riff that sound pretty reminiscent of early Arctic Monkeys. Since I can’t rely on the lyrics to really parse on the song any further, I’ll just rely on how the track sounds from this point on. The “16 beat” of the title, from what I can surmise, refers to the tempo at which the drummer keeps the beat in this case, 16 beats indicates a quick, uptempo rock song, like this very single. From what I can grasp, though, this is essentially a song about the love of music, or specifically the love of playing music and performing live shows and such. I ran the original kanji through Google translate, but most of the lines ended up turning into a pretty incomprehensible mess (as what tends to occur with running lyrics through Google translate).
It was so, so hard to find any reliable lyrics for this song. I didn’t find out much else about them, but I did find this photo of them that I really like – so colorful! All I can muster about Tokyo Karankoron is that they were formed in 2007 in Tokyo, and eventually went on to provide the ending theme to the anime Shokugeki no Soma. Plus, this is officially the first j-pop song I’ve come across, which is a genre that I really want to start looking into. And here’s yet another random single from a language that I know absolutely nothing about and must still continue to review with the best of my ability! At the very least, I’m just glad that I haven’t stumbled upon performers who are white men, which seemed to come in spades in the reviews I did before the official start of the challenge.