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Controlled Karaoke: Watch A Scene From Cars 2 Featuring Perfume

ByPatrick St. Michel June 7, 2011

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Title says it all…watch above.

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New Nanba Shiho: “Music”
ByPatrick St. Michel October 2, 2012

Nanba Shiho’s back in good form with her new single “Music.” It pretty much had nowhere to go but up following Shiho’s last single, a song about getting your hair cut set over some snore-inducing piano. “Music” returns to the more energetic pace of her earlier singles, this new number anchored by the forceful beat…

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Soutaiseiriron: “Miss Parallel World”
ByPatrick St. Michel April 28, 2010

The main talking point when dealing with Soutaiseiriron is usually the band’s relative mysteriousness. Japan Live runs down the band (translates to “Theory Of Relativity” in case you wondered) and their secretive ways pretty well, but here’s the Sparksnotes version – group boasts very few publicity shots, a blank MySpace page and make it clear…

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Check The Credits: Izumi Makuro’s “Tokyo Kinkou Rosenzu” (Produced By Sugar’s Campaign)
ByPatrick St. Michel October 4, 2013

Look, I don’t want to take anything away from Izumi Makuro. She sounds just fine here, rapping in a relaxed way that sounds effortless and certainly isn’t as, shall we say, acquired as other pop-rap outfits in Japan. If anything, it is easily compared to Her Ghost Friend, except with a more hip-hop bend. It’s…

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New Kyary Pamyu Pamyu: “Mondai Girl” (Short Version)
ByPatrick St. Michel February 26, 2015February 26, 2015

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s career is following a familiar (nay, predictable) arc, at least musically. She made a huge, viral splash with “PonPonPon,” achieved mainstream god-mode with “Fashion Monster” and went on a tear up until the release of Nanda Collection, and then sort of lost momentum a bit with subsequent singles and last year’s album…

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A Look At Anti-Nuclear Power Songs In Japan Today, Featuring COMA-CHI
ByPatrick St. Michel April 26, 2011

I’ll preface everything I write by saying…I’m not a sociologist, so I’ll try to avoid sweeping generalizations best I can. That said…Japan doesn’t strike me as a place where taking stands on controversial issues earns one any points. Every book I’ve read that mentions politics, for example, notes that the Japanese usually avoid political discussions…

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Controlled Karaoke: Coca-Cola Lets You Know What The Top 10 Sakura Songs Are
ByPatrick St. Michel April 6, 2010

Wither the folks outside of Japan right now, because it’s Sakura season. For a very short period of time, the cherry blossoms around the country have bloomed into a very delicate and pretty white. It makes the bike ride to work a bit more tolerable. The folks at the Coca-Cola corporation want you to enjoy…

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