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Listen to a little bit above.
Four Disconnected Thoughts On “Future Pop,” The Song, By Perfume 1.) The hypothesis I’ve worked with over the last two years is — Yasutaka Nakata, after being way ahead of the curve in the late Aughts and influencing swaths of EDM and other corners of electronic music in the 2010s (I guess lo-fi house can’t…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv4gUdn6Lcc”] Well, this is…something. I don’t know much about Seihuku Kojyo Iinkai and Google ain’t helping…but this needs to go viral NOW. A goofy teenage idol group delivering an anti-nuclear-power song that does a lot at once. Let’s break it down: 1. The actual music sounds like “Walking On Sunshine” and/or that generic upbeat song…
You know who really likes excessive-member idol group AKB48? Some dude who tricked the post office into sending him their fan mail. Full report below, Japanese speakers of the world. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uE0p_4RZW8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] (Or, English, via Japan Probe)
Little bit of a rush job this week, as I’ve got lots of other work to get done and this week’s lineup inspires nothing but tepidness in my heart. So…these lil’ snarky reviews might be extra lil’ this week. Just remember…you can be doing all sorts of cool stuff instead of listening to these songs…
A band lending a song to a commercial isn’t particularly worthy of breaking news in 2011. It especially isn’t something you’d lead with when the tune in question is an unheard new song…an instrumental, probably unfinished version at that. I mean, this should be less newsworthy than even those insufferable Pomplamoose Hyundai ads. Lullatone, though,…
Not a lot happens over the course of “大停電の夜に’s” six minutes. The members of cero show no signs of being in rush, sprawling out and letting the waves of guitar simply hover along save for a few light solo stretches late in the song. This isn’t the musical equivalent of wasting a Saturday afternoon burning…