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") and Gary Numan's "Remind Me to Smile" (released 15 months after "Art Mania").