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.
Now, I’m not a brave enough soul to say the mainstream J-pop scene has undergone a paradigm shift over the last two years — save for the ongoing band boom, the Johnny’s projects and middle-of-the-road idol groups of the country continue to soak up way too much space for music that is an afterthought —…
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[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8uBPG-f1MQ”] AMWE gives us an updated take on Blur’s “Girls And Boys” by going back to 1985. Her version of the classic swamps the track in synths and makes it a whole lot busier if ya know what I mean. Below is the original. [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATWnH-yb6-o”]
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[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XVdsa0PtKA”] The above ad seems harmless enough, just a cutesy Japanese ad complete with a little twinkly jingle thrown in. It’s the sort of thing that would pass by to most people, and might leave even less of an impression to Western viewers exposed to weirder 30-second fare like Hulk Hogan singing about the days…