Chocolate Factory (presumably for copyright reasons; the song also has all lyrical references to Willy Wonka changed to "the candy man"), and "Jive", an 18-second hidden track primarily consisting of a recording of Miho Hatori tapping her thighs, for which she is also credited. Reception Viva! La Woman was acclaimed by music critics. Michele Romero of Entertainment Weekly described Cibo Matto as "sonic savants who go nutty mixing disparate ingredients, like avant-garde trumpet with bossa nova bass lines and sugary non-sequitur lyrics", summarizing the album as "kitschy club music, as kooky and lovable as Hello Kitty." Select writer Andrew Male remarked on the album's playful lyrics, while noting that the band is "far more musically adept than yer average guitar 'n' shouting comedy act." The Guardians Caroline Sullivan called Viva! La Woman "an ambitious confection of trickling beats and delicately comatose spoken vocals whose only hint of wackiness is the lyrics", while AllMusic's Heather Phares praised it as "innovative and catchy" and "diverse and entertaining". Spin named Viva! La Woman the tenth best album of 1996 and later ranked it as the 90th best album of the 1990s. The album spent six weeks at number one on CMJ's college radio charts. Some listeners perceived the album as a novelty, "partly because of the cutesy-pie assumptions attached to Asian women in pop and partly because of the band's propensity for writing songs about food", much to Cibo Matto's chagrin. Writing in The Quietus in 2014, Joe Sweeney regarded Viva! La Woman as "a food-obsessed avant-rap record that dared to be ridiculous at a time when full-throated earnestness... was shipping millions." Track listing Sample credits "Beef Jerky" contains samples of "Vivre pour vivre", performed by Francis Lai. "Sugar Water" contains samples of "Hung Up", performed by Paul Weller; and "Sospesi nel cielo", performed by Ennio Morricone. "Theme" contains samples of "Tin Tin Deo", performed by Machito and His Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble. "Le Pain Perdu" contains samples of "Caravan", performed by Duke Ellington. Personnel Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. (Where possible, the credits here have been adapted from humorous accreditations in the album's booklet, which are often made to sound sexual or food-related.) Cibo Matto Miho Hatori – vocals ("singing, howling, moaning, sighing"), finger snapping, thigh tapping Yuka Honda – keyboards, programming, beach guitar, coughs, finger snapping Additional musicians Dougie Bowne – percussion Dave Douglas – trumpet Rick Lee –