二十歳の誕生日を控えるきゃりーぱみゅぱみゅが、成人式を祝うべく、新曲“ふりそでーしょん”のビデオを公開しました!ビデオは上にあります。まるでプロデューサーの中田ヤスタカが初期Capsule時代に戻ったかのような曲。S.F. Sound Furnitureかそれ以前の作品のよう。きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅが酔っぱらったフリをするのが観たいなら、ビデオは楽しんでもらえるはず(観たいでしょ?)。ひょっとしたら追加でもっと書くかも。成人式を迎える皆様!本当におめでとうございます! *UPDATE: Nope, she doesn’t, that would be the 29th actually. Next week is just coming-of-age day here in Japan. D’oh!
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.
Don’t let the apostrophe throw you off – today we focus on two acts on different sides of the globe named basically the same thing. Even if the two artists in question don’t have beef with one another…yet!…we should still attempt to clear this up to make life easier for people Googling one of these…
Let’s just lay this one out in text first — combining Avex artists FAKY, Yup’in and FEMM into one special unit should result in something totally average given the pedigree of the individual acts involved. FAKY and Yup’in have had their moments, but overall neither artist is the sort you get worked up about in…
One glance at the t-shirt racks of a Hot Topic or the recent film work of Michael Bay should convince you…if you didn’t already notice…that the 80s remain uber hip. Plenty of other junior pop-culture writers have already pointed out how a lot of people babbling about the Reagan years didn’t actually exist during them,…
None of this computes whatsoever. Young Tokyo Band who released a good albeit far from overwhelming mini-album in 2010 returns the following year by covering a wretch-worthy J-Rock song from the 80s. They handle said slab of cheese pretty carefully, delivering a version of this two-decades-old tune that simultaneously hovers closely to the source material…
Dear Lawson Convenience Stores, Hey, how ya doing? Before I get to the heart of this letter, I want to thank you for being the best convenience store chain in all of Japan. It might sound funny to even have a favorite convenience store, yet life in modern-day Japan demands constant trips to such places…
Can any of the songs on this week’s Music Station come close to equaling the majesty of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s shirt? Not an easy task. Let’s find out though! Arashi “Monster” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2bo-NOjtu4&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Excuse me while I get self-referential for a minute. In pretty much every instance where I rave about robo-bop disco divas…