Controlled Karaoke: Fanta Soft Drink Creates Fake Band Called FANTA And Releases A Single. Stop The World I Want To Get Off

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w0rf10nPm0″] Because we live in an age where most people celebrate a band getting their music used in a commercial, where becoming the backing sound of a new Toyota signals a huge leap forward for a career (and it does, and that’s good!), because this is Japan where this type of thing seems typical, where…

Listen To A Little Bit Of A New Perfume Song, “Glitter,” Via A Kirin Commercial

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIlHa0rs_4Q”] Perfume really love the fake fruit taste of Kirin, as they’ve gone and debuted another new song in a commercial for an adult beverage. Following “Laser Beam,” “Glitter” can be heard a bit in the above ad. Listen above, and hopefully soon a full stream of the song will appear.

New Perfume Single “Laser Beam” Previewed In…A Chu-Hi Ad

Perfume aren’t strangers to lending singles to various commercials, usually for vanilla products like clothes, cell phones and uhhhh ice cream. Yet for upcoming single “Laser Beam,” they offer the first taste via…alcohol??? Phone the Puritan brigade, because you can hear about 16 seconds of “Laser Beam” while watching a series of chu-hi cans flash…

Controlled Karaoke: AC Japan Ad Gets Remixed, Made Awesome

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XVdsa0PtKA”] The above ad seems harmless enough, just a cutesy Japanese ad complete with a little twinkly jingle thrown in. It’s the sort of thing that would pass by to most people, and might leave even less of an impression to Western viewers exposed to weirder 30-second fare like Hulk Hogan singing about the days…