Please watch this post before it goes......Momoiro Clover had their own songs in the second half of the show,
but in the first half they acted as support for Takashi Hosokawa as he performed 'Naniwabushi Dayo Jinsei wa'
The girls put their all into it, and it made the performance fun for Hosokawa san and for the audience. In fact the entire night had a theme of the young and the older mixing together- support segments with the younger artists backing up the older artists, and many Olympic medalists (from the summer Olympics in London) introducting artists that they personally liked.
As Kohaku is usually a blend of pop music and older tradtional music such as Enka, putting the young and older performers together worked well. Much credit to the producers and artists, including Hosogawa san, and Momokuro: