Hear A Little Of A New Perfume Song, “Point,” Now
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Listen to a little bit above.
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Listen to a little bit above.
On one hand, the existence of the terribly named Naked Boyz…a 44-member strong performance group basically taking the AKB48 blueprint and replacing “girls” with “guys”…signals a tiny bit of gender progress in Japan. Now women have a large mass of pop stars to stare at! Yet on the other hand…anything that continues growing the AKB48…
Perfume aren’t strangers to lending singles to various commercials, usually for vanilla products like clothes, cell phones and uhhhh ice cream. Yet for upcoming single “Laser Beam,” they offer the first taste via…alcohol??? Phone the Puritan brigade, because you can hear about 16 seconds of “Laser Beam” while watching a series of chu-hi cans flash…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWiUm5rOup0″] Here’s a new track from The Insect Kids, the horn-assisted shambler “ASTRA.” The singing, like on previous Insect Kids’ singles, remains might unpolished and is either going to be alluring or a roadblock, though the female chorus sounds quite catchy. The appeal of “ASTRA” lies with the the manic instrumentation, a dizzy rush reminiscent…
At some point in January, I said my 2011 resolution would be to cover rap more here. Well, it’s April and here is the first Japanese-centric hip-hop post that isn’t American (sorry Odd Future) or fake-ass “rap” (sorry Funky Monkey Babys). Personal aside, I’m hesitant to write about Japanese rap because there already exists an…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3DPEwUeWXE”] Last time we checked in with The Mirraz they were busy drinking themselves silly on jungle juice and trying to mack on whatever video girl crossed their path. Now, with “Happy Ice Cream,” the party has ended, the cups have been picked up and The Mirraz now try to get you into their bedroom…
Though I hesitate to share this online because it reveals me to be a total social zero, I’ll cop to helping create a thread on a message board used by local English teachers snarking on Korean pop music. This board usually features discussions focused on the helpful…event listings, teaching advice…to more vacuous chats…a thread titled…