Kyary Pamyu Pamyu has a new single out in October, called “Fashion Monster,” but the full song and video came out late tonight (at a good time for Western audiences HMMMMMMMMM). The clip, above, merges The Adam’s Family with Visual Kei…and a bunch of other great imagery one expects from Kyary with each new video. As for the song…well, hopefully I can write more later, but first few plays through this sounds really nice. The 8-bit bloops Yasutaka Nakata works in are great. For now, enjoy a man dressed as a rabbit rocking out on a turntable-equipped keytar.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPE6HIHif-Q”] Ever since Cee Lo Green gave the world the irresistible jam “Fuck You” via a text-heavy video, countless others have translated the profanity-heavy number into other languages for similar clips. And at long last, you can now learn how to say “fuck you” in Japanese above. This one has been around for like five…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUmXliVoXlM”] Japan recently got its own version of Saturday Night Live and, this past weekend, the fledgling program did a brief parody of South Korean juggernaut Girls’ Generation, recreating the video for the group’s Japanese single “Mr. Taxi.” Can you spot the joke? Hint, some of them are men. Watch it now, as the YouTube…
Yep, still loving this song. Tokyo’s Shiggy Jr. have just released a video to go along with the City-Pop-inspired “Saturday Night To Sunday Morning,” and it puts a bit of a childlike twist on what sounded like a night-on-the-town jam. They set it at…a slumber party! Chorus still soars.
Haven’t heard much from Birds Melt Sky in a long time…2010, to be exact…which explains why I completely forgot what they sounded like. I originally wrote a post about “Oneday, Someday,” noting how it marked a change in style for the group because the beat was more prominent, making the song more physical, more danceable…
One of my resolutions for 2015 is to keep an eye on Suiyoubi No Campanella, a rapper who I totally zoned over in 2014 despite her releasing a bunch of good songs. I didn’t listen to any of them before someone suggested her “Momotaro” for The Singles Jukebox in December…and I was floored. What Suiyoubi…
1. Sakanaction’s music-video game remains near the top level of contemporary Japanese music, goodness gracious the bubble-era beauty of this. 2. It isn’t like Sakanaction went anywhere, but 2015 felt more like a celebration of the band’s rise up the rungs of the Japanese rock scene than…well, a glimpse of whatever was next. Mainly, the…