Turns out 80kidz aren’t just working on EPs and an album this year…they also threw together a 15-second jingle for Japanese phone giant Docomo. Check it out in all it’s shiny goodness below. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr7bLNhCx9A&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
Man, remember when links to Susan Boyle’s performance on that Simon Cowell show in England clogged up your Twitter feed? Good times. Well, the saps in SMAP recreated the historic YouTube moment on TV the other day. Watch a guy cosplay as Simon Cowell below. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8l_Y970ypg&hl=en_US&fs=1&] (Via Japan Probe)
Last week I ate lunch with some of the students I teach. We talked about Japanese music and then the topic changed to the kids telling me the American musical groups they knew. The first artist out of there mouths? The Backstreet Boys. They all loved the Backstreet Boys. And High School Musical, but that’s…
Rarely do I say these words but…good work Seth MacFarlane. The dude behind Family Guy and American Dad somehow found a way to work in Japan’s premier tech-disco outfit Perfume into the latest episode of the latter. All without resorting to a “remember the time…” gag! Sorry, sorry. Though the group never gets named (it’s…
Buddhism just a little too boring for ya? Tokyo-based monk Kansho Taga decided the best way to spice up the sutras was to say them a little faster and have some dude beatboxing in the back. Taga now goes by the stage name MC Happiness and presumably raps about the eight-fold path. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsF0siaYBFc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Dudes got…