[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52JVrp09Zdk”] There is a very real chance the above video will appear only as a black background. The leak-sniffers seem to be on their A-game for this one, so just keep an open eye if you can’t hear the above. Yasutaka Nakata deserves a lot of credit for his production work, especially the work he’s…
Girls Generation landed on the top of the Oricon charts this week with their factory-perfect single “Gee,” making them the first female non-Japanese group to take top honors since The Nolans did it back in 1980 with “I’m In The Mood For Dancing.” It also pretty much confirms that they are huge in Japan. Japan…
Halloween! But before ya go load up on candy, you gotta listen to some J-Pop. Ai Featuring 加藤ミリヤ “Stronger” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCMzr81oCIw”] Ai attempts to split the difference between Mariah Carey girlfriend-empowerment pep pop and Ne-Yo’s futuristic R&B that sounds…well, catchy but kinda obvious. The hover-car side of this track seems less innovative and more paper-clipped on,…
So the new Perfume single “ねぇ” and accompanying video worked its way onto the internet today. Unfortunately the folks at Perfume’s label swooped in and cut ’em all down. Or so I think. Look, sorry to play cryptic dude but until the folks at Tokuma Japan Communications give me advanced copies of their singles/hire me…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPBOvJgeP44″] When Perfume City originally Tweeted “SNSD x Perfume on MJ! Dreams do come true!” followed by a YouTube link, I instantly got my hope stupid high that the two groups performed together on this show I had never heard of that probably wasn’t associated with a certain Chicago legend just like Perfume did with…