A very special edition of Station To Station this week, as my computer is currently making noises usually reserved for a Nine Inch Nails song and I’ll be sending it into the shop for the weekend. So we will be blazin’ through this week’s tunes because my laptop could explode at any moment. Let’s dive…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xeHX7pxIFY”] Look people, I’ve got you figured out. I noticed my web traffic reached absurd heights when I posted a story featuring the words “AKB48” and “porn” in the same headline. The biggest lesson I learned from journalism school went “appeal to your audience.” So…brace for sexiness courtesy of the slightly creepy titled Sexy All…
Well, the summer just zipped by and here we are…September. Unlike half the world, I wish summer could keep on going. Alas it can’t, and I only have this week’s Music Station to console me. And it’s a really short Music Station to! Let’s mourn summer by seeing what music the Japanese kids dig. Mai…
WEAVER “僕らの永遠～何度生まれ変わっても、手を繋ぎたいだけの愛だから～ “ [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giAj_iHUwdQ”] First, props to WEAVER for giving their new single a name so long it couldn’t fit on a Butterfinger wrapper. That takes some balls. Unfortunately, that testicular fortitude doesn’t surface anywhere on the actual song. This single…not gonna copy/paste the title…seems custom made for feel-good radio stations moms tune into and…
On one hand, the existence of the terribly named Naked Boyz…a 44-member strong performance group basically taking the AKB48 blueprint and replacing “girls” with “guys”…signals a tiny bit of gender progress in Japan. Now women have a large mass of pop stars to stare at! Yet on the other hand…anything that continues growing the AKB48…