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Controlled Karaoke: Marching Band Performs Perfume’s “Laser Beam”

ByPatrick St. Michel July 7, 2011

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Headline says everything, nothing else needed.

Via the Perfume City Twitter feed.

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The Top Five Johnny’s Singles Of 2010
ByPatrick St. Michel December 6, 2010

Johnny & Associates aren’t just another shadowy Japanese record label christening idols and telling them not to date anyone – Johnny goes WAYYYYY beyond that. The people running this company aren’t in the business of making musicians…they create IDOLS, all caps necessary. These people end up on the fronts of CD singles, folders, television screens,…

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New Suiyoubi No Campanella: “Diablo”
ByPatrick St. Michel April 28, 2015April 30, 2015

Rapper-ish electro-pop-kinda group Suiyoubi No Campanella seem like the sort of music group that should be poised for a big mainstream breakout (recently signing to a major label helping fuel that vision), as they take a growing music trend (silliness and a lack of interest in genre borders mixed with honest emotion…see Tofubeats and Kyary…

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Station To Station: Music Station For August 3 Featuring Miliyah Kato, Sonar Pocket And J Soul Brothers
ByPatrick St. Michel August 2, 2012

Will anything be more depressing than the story behind the above photo? Let’s find out! Miliyah Kato “Heart Beat” Since this song is a Coca-Cola tie-in track with the 2012 Olympics, I figured the line you hear at the beginning of the song was saying “I was going to London.” It seems to actually be…

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Stuff We Missed 2012: Nami Tamaki’s “Paradise”
ByPatrick St. Michel December 13, 2012

I try to approach music in a way that avoids categorizing songs as “guilty pleasures” or as things to be self-conscious about. If you like the way something sounds, that should be more than enough. Letting ideas of what’s “cool” or “authentic” dictate what you like is ridiculous – like what you like. That said…one…

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New Tokyo Girls’ Style: “Mille-Feuille”
ByPatrick St. Michel December 1, 2016December 1, 2016

Two ways to look at “Mille-Feuille:” 1. Tokyo Girls’ Style have long been one of the early adopters to new styles within the idol realm. Since they were created by Avex as a way to get in on the then-burgeoning idol scene, whooshed in by the success of AKB48. They started out right around the…

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Sweet Vacation Cover Ne-Yo: “Because Of You”
ByPatrick St. Michel December 29, 2009

Nestled between some awkward electro-dance covers of “Sweet Child Of Mine” and “Walk This Way” (with a passing take on KT Tunstall) lies one of the most subversive cover songs I’ve heard from any artist this year. I’m thinking it’s totally unintentional: the it-always-has-to-be-this-way-doesn’t-it, boy-producing-girl-singing duo Sweet Vacation sing Ne-Yo’s “Because Of You” in a…

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