Kon'ya wa Karasawagi

In 2010, the band performed their Discovery tour for their fifth album Dai Hakken. The extended play Color Bars was first announced on November 15, 2011, as a release featuring five songs each written by a different member of the band.{{cite web | url=http://www.tokyojihen.com/news/index_02.php | title=新作アルバム年明けリリース決定！|publisher=Universal | language=Japanese |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140710135824/http://www.tokyojihen.com/news/index_02.php |date=November 15, 2011 |archivedate=July 10, 2014 | accessdate=July 11, 2014}} "Kon'ya wa Karasawagi" represented the song vocalist Ringo Sheena wrote for the release. Vocalist Ringo Sheena made their first performance at the 62nd NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen on December 31, 2011, at which she and the band performed a medley of "Onna no Ko wa Dare Demo" and Sheena's solo song "Carnation".{{cite web | url=http://mdpr.jp/021163554 | title=＜紅白本番＞椎名林檎、初めての紅白に「おじゃましております」 |publisher=MDPR | language=Japanese | date=December 31, 2011 | accessdate=April 21, 2014}}

The song features lyrics and music by Sheena. The other Color Bars songs were songs that had existed before the release that were suggested but did not appear on other releases.{{cite book |title=チャンネルガイド-東京事変オフィシャルブック- |date=February 2012 |trans-title=Channel Guide: Tokyo Jihen Official Book |language=Japanese |location=Tokyo |publisher=Kronekodow |publication-date=February 29, 2012 |pages=170–173 |isbn=978-4884182984}} "Kon'ya wa Karasawagi" was the final song, which Sheena struggled over on the best way to express. She wrote the lyrics in the image of Tokyo, and wrote the melody in the most natural way she composes songs, without deviating.{{cite web | url=http://www.tokyojihen.com/sp/notes/interview/toct22311/ | title=「color bars」オフィシャル・インタビュー |trans-title=Color Bars Official Interview |publisher=Toshiba EMI | language=Japanese |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140617032038/http://www.tokyojihen.com/sp/notes/interview/toct22311/ |archivedate=June 17, 2014 | accessdate=July 11, 2014}}

The song was first performed by the band during the Discovery tour, from September 30 until December 26, 2011. It was also a part of their Bon Voyage farewell tour in February 2012.{{cite book |title=チャンネルガイド-東京事変オフィシャルブック- |date=February 2012 |trans-title=Channel Guide: Tokyo Jihen Official Book |language=Japanese |location=Tokyo |publisher=Kronekodow |publication-date=February 29, 2012 |pages=186–187 |isbn=978-4884182984}}{{cite web | url=https://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000078774 | title=東京事変、"最期の生実演"を完全収録した映像作品6/13発売決定 |trans-title=Tokyo Jihen, DVD footage of their final concert to be released on 6/13. |publisher=Barks | language=Japanese | accessdate=July 9, 2014}} At Sheena's mini-tour Chotto Shita Recohatsu 2014 to promote her album Gyakuyunyū: Kōwankyoku (2014), Sheena performed the song as a solo artist as the final song of the encore.{{cite web |url=https://natalie.mu/music/news/117748 |title=椎名林檎「逆輸入」レコ発で16周年感謝、宇多田カバーも |trans-title=Ringo Sheena 'Gyakuyunyu' release party on her 16th anniversary, an Utada cover too |publisher=Natalie |date=May 29, 2014 |accessdate=May 31, 2014}} The band also made an appearance on Music Station to perform the song on January 20, 2012.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/music/contents/m_lineup/1093/index2.html | title=主演者ラインップ | trans-title=Performer line-up | publisher=TV Asashi | accessdate=May 24, 2014 | archive-date=August 26, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826231322/http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/music/contents/m_lineup/1093/index2.html | url-status=dead }}

A music video for the song directed by Yuichi Kodama was unveiled on January 1, 2012.{{cite web | url=http://www.tokyojihen.com/news/index.php | title=最新MV「今夜はから騒ぎ」視聴スタート！ |publisher=Universal | language=Japanese |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140711055049/http://www.tokyojihen.com/news/index.php |date=January 1, 2012 |archivedate=July 11, 2014 | accessdate=July 11, 2014}} It features each band member in a different style of 1800s clothing, in a wooden building. Several scenes feature money being thrown into the air, and each member sits at a wooden desk signing their name to a contract. Sheena loads a rifle and shoots a member in a bathroom, followed by scenes of the band performing the song in a dance hall. The video was nominated for the Best Video of the Year award at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards Japan.{{cite web |url=https://ro69.jp/news/detail/65594 |title=MTV主催のMV受賞式『VMAJ』、東京事変・サカナ・バンプ・ラッド・ワンオク・Perfume・星野源などがノミネート |publisher=Rockin' On |date=February 22, 2012 |accessdate=July 11, 2014}}

CDJournal called the song a "rhythmic and stylish pop song, injected with a jazzy essence by a Hammond organ-style piano sound, and felt the song was a homage for "ever-changing Tokyo".{{cite web | url=https://artist.cdjournal.com/d/color-bars/4111110929 | title=東京事変 / color bars [紙ジャケット仕様] |publisher=CDJournal | language=Japanese | accessdate=July 11, 2014}} Listenmusic reviewer Yoshiki Aoyuki felt the song had a "Shōwa latin kayō taste" not unlike Sheena's solo songs "Kabukichō no Joō" (1998) "Marunouchi Sadistic" (1999).{{cite web | url=http://listenmusic.jp/store/diskreview_35906.htm | title= 新譜レビュー > 東京事変/color bars |author=Yoshiki Aoyuki |publisher=Listenmusic | language=Japanese| accessdate=July 11, 2014}} Both reviewer Reiko Tsuzura and Yuya Shimizu of Rolling Stone Japan called the "jazz kayō".{{cite web | url=https://www.rollingstonejapan.com/reviews/archive/color-bars/ | title= レヴュー『color bars』東京事変|author=Yuya Shimizu |publisher=Rolling Stone Japan | language=Japanese| accessdate=July 11, 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.tsutaya.co.jp/works/20298671.html|title=color bars/東京事変 |publisher=Tsutaya |language=Japanese |accessdate=June 16, 2014}}

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