A turtle becomes a car and nobody questions it. That's the entire premise, delivered with the kind of matter-of-fact logic that only children's music can pull off. The song sits somewhere between lullaby and folk tale, the kind of thing that lodges in your brain for weeks not because it's trying to be catchy but because it's genuinely weird and genuinely gentle at the same time. This is what Minna no Uta does best: takes the strangest possible image and makes it feel like the most natural thing in the world.

Jidousha ni Natta Kame no Uta is a single-episode music video made for the song of the same name, credited to Seiji Tanaka and the Sakamoto Children's Choir. It was broadcast as one of the segments of NHK's Minna no Uta program.