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.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDdnAhS54A0&hl=en_US&fs=1] Hey, haven’t blabbed about Perfume enough this week have I?! This time, we revisit the trio’s earlier 2010 singles, as American producer Christopher Wade remixed both “Fushizen Na Girl” and the pop knockout “Natural Ni Koishite.” The prior gets slowed down a bit, Perfume’s once darting vocals sliced into neon-drift sounds. Whereas the original…
Any day now, you can expect a nice countdown of my favorite Japanese songs of 2010. Hopefully. Until then, though, let’s look at a few tracks that didn’t make the cut. This isn’t an honorable mentions deal…sorry, that could take all day if we have to tally up runner-ups…but rather five songs I heard in…
Takuya Kimura, better known as the dude with long hair in boy band SMAP, stars in an ad for Windows 7. Much to the joy of folks who frown on boy bands, Kimura spends most of the commercial being hurled into a building. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rdJvy3BFwU&hl=en&fs=1&] (First spotted at Japanator)
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crtcgzOpplQ”] UPDATE: OK, appears NBC is really good at getting video pulled off the Internet, as the original clip I posted is gone. You can see a clip of the below here and above is another YouTube clip bound to be removed in the near future. Strangely, though, it seems the YouTube comments for both…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGrQQ09Cs5g&hl=en_US&fs=1] On a pure surface level listen, Moumoon’s “Sunshine Girl” comes off like a ho-hum, kinda stupid summer song. It’s got a beat as threatening as melting ice cream and lyrics featuring such observations as “Weather is great/it’s your holy day/we get to party all day long.” At best, it’s a completely inessential pop track…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bujFLdJ2FGQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&] One of the cutest twee-pop songs of the year gets one of the most “ahhhhhhh!” inducing videos of the year. I couldn’t explain what’s going on, but those frogs sure look adorable.