お勉強しといてよ

"お勉強しといてよ" — roughly "go study up, would you" — is ZUTOMAYO at their most sardonic and most danceable. The arrangement is funk architecture: a slippery, syncopated bass that never sits still, clavinet-bright keys, horn-adjacent synth stabs, and a drum pattern with the elastic snap of a live session band rather than a DAW grid. The mix is bright and forward, almost aggressively legible, which suits a song built on being talked at. ACAね delivers it with a smirk audible in the phrasing — rapid, precise, syllable-dense verses that tumble downhill, then a chorus that lands with sudden melodic sweetness, the sugar coating on an insult. The lyric is a dressing-down aimed at someone who wants intimacy without doing any of the work of understanding: do your homework on me before you presume. It's petty and specific and funny, which is exactly why it reads as honest. Released on the *ぐされ* album, it became one of the band's signature live cuts, a song where the audience's job is to move rather than to mope. Put it on when you're getting ready to go out already annoyed at someone, or when you need three and a half minutes of feeling sharper than the person who underestimated you.