New Perfume Video: “不自然なガール” Or “Artificial Girl”
Watch it here. Over-analysis later.
Watch it here. Over-analysis later.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1awua0YrSRs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] For some reason the music of Sakanaction never really grabbed me much before “Identity,” there latest single out on August 4th. This new song just sounds better than anything else I’ve heard from them. It boasts big sing-a-long sections deployed by countless English bands (Klaxons, Foals, Delphic, the list stretches into infinity) but never…
YouTuber and apparently Internet famous guy (check those stats!) Hyadain recently released the 2009 edition of his annual “Japanese Song Battle.” It’s a six-minute mix of Hyadain covering snippets of popular J-Pop tracks from the recently retired year. The first thing you’ll probably notice about it is the brain-pummeling volume – turn the noise way…
Forget yacht rock – ALOHA’s “ChinaTown” should be played on every cruise ship by maritime law. That’s not really meant as a swipe, though I’m sure any David Foster Wallace reader has already closed the page by now. “ChinaTown” just boasts this amazingly laid-back ‘tude that I associate with leisure-seeking cruisers or maybe goofy lounges…
AKB48 member/drone Yuko Oshima appeared on some World War II special recently. Quizzed about who Japan fought in the war, she blunders a few historical facts up, such as thinking Japan fought Italy. Whooops! Read the whole account thisaway. Hmmmmm, never would have guessed being thrown into a J-Pop army at a pretty young age…
Perfume’s new single “Spending All My Time” comes out on August 15, but right now you can hear a sample of one of the other two songs that will come alongside it. This snippet of “Hurly Burly” takes the first verse and chorus and loops it, but what is there sounds very…intriguing. Eagerly awaiting a…
Wrote that headline and realized this episode of Music Station falls on a Friday the 13th. Who knows what spooky surprises await! Oh, another appearance by Kanjani8? IT REALLY IS CURSED. aiko “恋のスーパーボール” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0-QP1z05Gc”] Sadly, the video above is only a short commercial for aiko’s new single, so it seems a bit unfair to make…