Tsunku turned a Wii rhythm game into one of the most inventive pop albums nobody talks about enough. Rhythm Heaven Fever's soundtrack bounces between genres like it's speedrunning a jukebox, with every track engineered to make your body move before your brain catches up.
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"Remix 3 (I Feel Fine!!)" layers four completely different musical ideas into something that shouldn't work but absolutely does. "Love Rap" is genuinely catchy hip-hop. "Bossa Nova" is genuinely smooth bossa nova. The commitment to each style is wild.
"Ringside" turns a press conference into a funk workout and somehow that's one of the more normal moments. If you think game soundtracks can't be playful and musically sophisticated at the same time, this exists to prove you wrong.