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about this song
At the beginning of the song, the poem "Jinggang Mountain" (井冈山), considered a revolutionary Chinese poem, is recited in a robotic voice transmitted through a vocoder. The idea was probably to create an ironic futuristic feeling by combining an ancient text with a technology that was so new at the time. Sakamoto has commented in interviews that, back then, mixing electronics with political elements had a somewhat experimental and even provocative character—and that the intention was not to support Mao