J-Pop

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 “Swag Of The Year” Award/Best K-Pop To J-Pop Crossover Of 2011: “I Am The Best”
ByPatrick St. Michel December 28, 2011

Regardless of what claims borderline-nationalist J-Pop fans squawked out, Korean pop artists locked themselves into the Japanese pop-culture landscape this year, going from foreign curio to accepted face on the music charts. Girls’ Generation and KARA started releasing Japan-only songs and albums, releases which did very very very well. K-Pop boy bands started hitting the…

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New Daoko: “Bang!”
ByPatrick St. Michel July 15, 2016

Ambition is a hell of a thing, but certain artists just really need to chase it. Daoko built her reputation on mystery — she was a wise-beyond-her-years high school rapper who never showed her face and took Sotaisei Riron’s tone of a teenager scribbling personal poetry during a boring math class and applied it to…

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New Sakanaction: “Hasu No Hana”
ByPatrick St. Michel November 13, 2014

Point one – Sakanaction, despite being a very “serious” sounding band, deserve credit for tending to make goofy-fun videos. Just look at how much of a ball Ichiro Yamaguchi is having at the end. OK, the actual song – Sakanaction’s latest single is now out (and has a video), so let’s talk a little about…

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New Tofubeats Featuring PES From RIP SLYME: “Poolside”
ByPatrick St. Michel September 10, 2014

Here’s the latest taste of Tofubeats’ forthcoming major-label debut, First Album, which for those who know their Tofu will realize it sounds very very familiar. That’s because the luxurious beat for “Poolside” first appeared as the opening track for 2012’s fantastic Summer Dreams. The music…along with Tofubeat’s original rap…remain, but it is now joined by…

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Yasutaka Nakata Update Central: Wave Runner Mega Mix And E-Girl’s
ByPatrick St. Michel December 29, 2014

Producer Yasutaka Nakata is going to have a busy first quarter in 2015, highlighted by a new album from his Capsule project. In advance of Wave Runner’s February 18 release, a “Mega-Mix Movie” has been released, featuring snippets of the songs on the duo’s latest full-length. The preview confirms that Nakata and vocalist Toshiko Koshijima…

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Controlled Karaoke: AKB48 + Puppies = AKP48 Or WAHHHHHHHHHHH SO CUTE
ByPatrick St. Michel January 14, 2011

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G60v1S3aPaU”] So it has come to this. The massive popularity of AKB48 has spawned all sorts of parodies…remember the geezers?…but now the whole militia-sized pop group jokes reach peak Japanese-ness with AKP48. This collective of 48 different types of doggies forced to wear ugly sweaters, which means “Ah Kawaii Puppy” btw, stare blankly ahead and…

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