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ok boomer moment here. I really had NO CLUE WHATSOEVER this and Baka Mitai were these powerful memes, I had to look up the history and people explained it to me and I still don't really understand why these two songs went viral to the point of entering the mainstream consciousness and thought maybe I was the last person on earth to play Yakuza 0 since everyone seemed to know about it lol, but anyways I just thought it was a nice song even though I sucked at the disco minigame lol...I maxed out the cabaret club EXCEPT for that one hostess because I could not beat her at dancing sob. Luckily I didn't need her because all the other girls were so OP (Etsuko supremacy omg) but still kinda bugged me I couldn't get them all hahaha.

However, there was absolutely no doubt in my mind this would translate well to piano when I heard it lol. Story time, when I was in grad school, I was close friends with this super cool bassist and theory/composition Ph.D. candidate who would always stop by my practice room and we'd talk about Hindemith and Brahms and Meshuggah and whatever, and one day we somehow got on the topic of flat 9s and he swore up and down the Bee Gees were one of the best to do it, and brought in his piano book of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack to prove it and I sightread the whole thing for two hours and it was absolutely hysterical to have people woodshedding Scriabin 5 and Liszt b minor on either side of us while we were going so hard on Jive Talkin' and You Should Be Dancing lollllllllllll. ANYWAYS all this is is just to say, ever since then I learned disco adapts SUPER well to piano LOL so this cover is dedicated to him and his Saturday Night Fever piano book (won't name names because I believe he's now sorta big time academic in the musicology/theory world and a professor at this major institution and the last thing he would want is to be associated with random disco piano cover from quirky video game about thug life in Japan from some chick he hasn't talked to in 20+ years lol)

Thank you guys, as always, for stopping by to listen! And unironically, happy Friday night ❤️❤️