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.
The top of the J-Pop world remains cemented in place so far in 2012 – the best selling albums and singles have been from all the usual suspects of the Japanese music landscape. AKB48, Ikimono-gakari, EXILE, everything Johnny’s…with a few exceptions, the dominant music of 2012 has been pretty much the same as the last…
Call me cynical, but this sounds like the label-mandated “hit” Salyu probably would have to release following the staggering experimentation of her Salyu X Salyu project with Cornelius. Whereas that album remains one of 2011’s better surprises, this new song finds Salyu returning to her singular past, a near ballad full of strings and shuffling…
Usually, I stay up late on weekdays doing all sorts of work (read: watching YouTube), but last night I decided to read a few chapters of a Joan Didion book and go to bed at a reasonable hour for once. Turned out I missed a deluge of Perfume news – guess who won’t be sleeping…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2x0mw9B8ig”] The popularity of Ashida Mana works like a Chinese Finger Trap – at first, you have no idea how the dang thing works (“what’s the big deal, she’s just an adorable seven-year-old kid given a stupidly catchy albeit annoying song?”) then you realize the solution is way easier than you ever could have imagined…
I’m not ready to write up some grand thesis on the matter, but I believe one of the biggest differences between American and Japanese pop is the degree to which their audiences go along with the star’s images. In the U.S. message boards chirp with discussions about the politics of Lady GaGa and don’t question…
Big things happening around these parts in the near future, so this will be a relatively quick edition…with picture complete with Japanese buzzword! aiko “Kuchibiru” WATCH HERE, STARTING AT THE THREE MINUTE MARK Here’s an artist who exist in the unoffensive middle, someone who never releases anything terrible but also has failed to release anything…