Art Mania

Connections

 * The figure of the song is a modification of a phrase from the 1952 Poly e Seus Modernistas song "Turista". Hirasawa was familiar with the song through the 1963 cover by The Atlantics, one of his favorite bands when he started to get into music. P-Model would go on to add "Turista" to their setlists beginning in 1984, and Hirasawa covered it solo for the 1989 various artists compilation Les Enfants.
 * The bass and synth lines of "Floor" are extremely similar to those of the song, albeit at a drastically slower tempo.
 * The song's overall arrangement was reused for "No Room".
 * The song uses the Roland CR-68's "beguine" rhythm pattern. Since it comes preset in all CR-68/CR-78/CR-800 models, it appears in many other songs. Among the most notable are Blondie's "Heart of Glass" (released 10 months before "Art Mania"), Plastics' "Too Much Information" (released 5 months after "Art Mania") and Gary Numan's "Remind Me to Smile" (released 15 months after "Art Mania").