Controlled Karaoke: Watch A Scene From Cars 2 Featuring Perfume
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op2MEWNS3fQ”]
Title says it all…watch above.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op2MEWNS3fQ”]
Title says it all…watch above.
So the new Perfume single “ねぇ” and accompanying video worked its way onto the internet today. Unfortunately the folks at Perfume’s label swooped in and cut ’em all down. Or so I think. Look, sorry to play cryptic dude but until the folks at Tokuma Japan Communications give me advanced copies of their singles/hire me…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w0rf10nPm0″] Because we live in an age where most people celebrate a band getting their music used in a commercial, where becoming the backing sound of a new Toyota signals a huge leap forward for a career (and it does, and that’s good!), because this is Japan where this type of thing seems typical, where…
I’m very, very on the fence about this song – on the one (wait for it) hand, it is way better than the preview suggested, the chorus in particular being a far more intriguing addition to this song than originally hinted at (the way it swoons! When Kyary Pamyu Pamyu described the music of Perfume…
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…
Note: This will be the final regular update around these parts for a bit…starting tomorrow (hopefully!) we will share MBM’s top 20 Japanese albums of the year. And then we will go on a vacation where posts will be more infrequent. Fittingly, we end with Especia. Osaka idol outfit Especia – who take cues from…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uT8vAsGp3s&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I have never seen The Neverending Story, putting me in a very sparse group of 20-somethings not holding fond memories of the film or pretending to have big ol’ nostalgic feelings for it. So, to me Miu Sakamoto’s video for “Silent Fiction” is just her showing off her dancing abilities while working a puppet…