Controlled Karaoke: Marching Band Performs Perfume’s “Laser Beam”
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Or658kO8eI”]
Headline says everything, nothing else needed.
Via the Perfume City Twitter feed.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Or658kO8eI”]
Headline says everything, nothing else needed.
Via the Perfume City Twitter feed.
Yep, that’s it, right up there. No Triangle I tell ya what. More interesting, the tracklist for JPN has been revealed and based on the singles included…basically, all of them since 2010…this album looks like it will almost certainly be good. Could have done without the bad AKB stab though! For us around here, the…
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu turns 20 next week*, and to celebrate she has a new single called “Furisodeshon,” which you can hear above. Sonically, it sounds like Yasutaka Nakata is returning to his early-Capsule days, as the music sounds like something off of S.F. Sound Furniture or before. And yeah the video is pretty great, especially…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Wie3GKjy0″] In which I finally get a big platform to share my love of Girls’ Generation…sorta. I wrote an article for The Atlantic online about K-Pop’s growth in Japan over the past year, which you can read here. It features a bunch of videos which you’ve probably seen around these parts since last August…though the…
Man, remember when links to Susan Boyle’s performance on that Simon Cowell show in England clogged up your Twitter feed? Good times. Well, the saps in SMAP recreated the historic YouTube moment on TV the other day. Watch a guy cosplay as Simon Cowell below. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8l_Y970ypg&hl=en_US&fs=1&] (Via Japan Probe)
Assorted Thoughts 1. I ultimately think PC Music is pretty great — most of the music released under that banner has been fantastic pop, and in general I side with any artist/collective who appears to have a genuine interest in Japanese music and tries to push it into the West (A.G. Cook samples DJ Kaori…
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu has been 2012’s most interesting J-Pop star so far for a bunch of reasons – her vibrant music videos, the fact she reached the top of the American electronic iTunes charts with her debut album, her Yasutaka-Nakata-produced debut Pamyu Pamyu Revolution being one of the best Japanese albums of the year. Mostly…