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Koo Koo Kanga Roo is an American comedic dance-pop duo from Minneapolis, Minnesota, consisting of vocalists Bryan (Bryan Atchison) and Neil (Neil Olstad). Billed as an "interactive dance party duo" and described as "the Beastie Boys meet ''Sesame Street''", Koo Koo Kanga Roo showcase a colorful live show which relies heavily on audience participation, featuring overtly silly sing-along songs which are typically accompanied by their own individual dance move.〔 The duo has toured nationwide, performing for both children's events and at mainstream music clubs with rock and punk bands, and is notable for releasing all of their recorded music under a "pay what you want" price. ==Overview== Koo Koo Kanga Roo have defined themselves foremost as a live band, with their performances and audience interaction being the pure core of the group, even more so than their recorded music.〔〔 Bryan and Neil are the only members of Koo Koo Kanga Roo, and thus perform all of their songs against pre-recorded backing tracks played from their iPods over the venue's PA system.〔 The duo's songs are written explicitly for the purposes of audience participation, featuring sing-along verses and/or choruses often utilizing a call and response technique, and almost always including a simple dance move unique to each song which Bryan and Neil encourage the audience to follow along with.〔〔 The subject matter of Koo Koo Kanga Roo's songs rarely stray from juvenile "goofball" territory, covering such topics as dinosaurs, letters of the alphabet, ninjas, food fights, fanny packs, hopscotch, slumber parties and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.〔 Despite this, Bryan and Neil hesitate to label themselves as a "kid's band", instead referring to Koo Koo Kanga Roo as "a kid's band for adults" which aims to connect with all ages.〔 "We shoot for goofy, more than kids' music specifically", Neil elaborated. "It's not about being a kids' thing, it's about being a fun thing".〔 Neil has also mentioned that Koo Koo Kanga Roo's songs try to touch on a nostalgia factor for older audiences, drawing on his and Bryan's memories of childhood; one prominent example includes the duo's tradition of throwing a playground parachute into the crowd at the end of their sets, the kind "that you remember from PE class in elementary school".〔 Appropriately, Koo Koo Kanga Roo's merchandise table is just as mired in kid-friendly activity, regularly including such features as a station to make friendship bracelets - where Bryan and Neil strictly enforce a rule that if someone makes a bracelet, they must give it to a person they've never met before - and the "Koo Koo Kamera", a webcam where concert attendees can take their pictures together and have them uploaded to the group's website.〔〔 Koo Koo Kanga Roo also sells a variety of unconventional merchandise, ranging from official coloring books to a "mustache-on-a-stick".〔 With the exception of ''Whoopty Whoop'' and their "greatest hits" compilation ''Rad-trospective'', none of Koo Koo Kanga Roo's music is sold in a physical format, as the group prefer to release all of their recorded music through "pay what you want" downloads on their website, essentially making the entirety of their catalog available for free. According to Bryan, all of their songs are written expressly for their live shows and the audience participation which accompanies them, and thus are never considered outside of that specific context. Although Bryan once said "I'm surprised people can even listen to those songs (of performance )", Neil stressed the importance of releasing their music by itself because "()e want people to have access to the songs so that they can sing along at the shows. We want them to know all the words. We want people to have the music as immediately as possible".〔〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Koo Koo Kanga Roo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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