The world’s most expensive photograph, ya’ll. Over the past week I’ve seen a bunch of people guffawing at the price (completely fair) and buzzing off about how this isn’t art but rather a glorified Polaroid snap (wrong!). It’s a very pretty shot that also came in a pretty huge size, and seeing people be all…
Here’s something I’ll never type again…reader, have mercy on the songs featured here this week. Due to a combination of moving woes (“what do you mean I’m out of boxes?????? WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN’T FIND MY APARTMENT??????”) and the [REDACTED] (this sounded way more melodramatic when I wrote it Wednesday, let’s just move…
Remember this feature? Music Station went on summer holiday for the last couple of weeks, but it’s back just in time for the middle of July. Arashi “まだ見ぬ世界へ” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tufJ2sExlgA”] Lady Gaga visited eternal-boyband SMAP’s show SMAP X SMAP recently, and Ms. Gaga thought it would be a cool idea to upload the footage of said…
Halloween! But before ya go load up on candy, you gotta listen to some J-Pop. Ai Featuring 加藤ミリヤ “Stronger” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCMzr81oCIw”] Ai attempts to split the difference between Mariah Carey girlfriend-empowerment pep pop and Ne-Yo’s futuristic R&B that sounds…well, catchy but kinda obvious. The hover-car side of this track seems less innovative and more paper-clipped on,…
Ikimono-gakari “Arigato” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nk0uVMV5_A&hl=en_US&fs=1&] The first time I wrote about “Arigato” I focused mostly on the overly long track’s negatives. Though I’d still prefer to see Cheech Marin shoot bad guys while dressed as a priest three times, my imaginary therapist advised me to be a bit more positive about Ikimono-gakari’s latest. As long as we…