Oddloop is an EP album by Japanese rock band Frederic. It was released on September 23, 2014[1] and was also their debut at a major record label,[2] peaking at number 73 on the Japanese charts.[3] It won the Kansai block local award at the 7th CD Shop Awards.[4]

Oddloop
EP by
Released24 September 2014 (2014-09-24)
Genre
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It features the song, "Oddloop", whose name is a mixture between the Japanese verb odoru (踊る), meaning "to dance", and the English words "odd loop". The music video references this loop in its strange repeating sequences. It is their most popular song, with over 100 million views on YouTube as of January 2022.[5][6] The two women dancers in the music video are Yuho Uchida (内田佑朋), and Arisu Mukaide (向出アリス).

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  1. ^ "フレデリック、完全限定生産でアナロ グ盤「oddloop e.p.」をリリース!". okmusic.jp (in Japanese).
  2. ^ "Un premier album major pour FREDERIC !". japanfm.fr (in French).
  3. ^ "フレデリック". Oricon (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2019-05-15. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  4. ^ "» 第7回 全日本CDショップ店員組合". cdshop-kumiai.jp (in Japanese). 2015-03-09. Archived from the original on 2015-03-15. Retrieved 2015-07-12.
  5. ^ 木村陽仁. "フレデリック密着取材、NHK「MUSIC JAPAN」収録現場一部始終". musicvoice.jp (in Japanese).
  6. ^ "フレデリック 0:06 / 4:22 フレデリック「オドループ」Music Video Frederic "oddloop"". YouTube. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
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