In the same way Joaquin Phoenix stuck to his gimmick of being a crazy person for the entire filming of I’m Still Here, Kinoco Hotel cling to their femme-fatale “hotel staff” routine in the video for “Hijō Naru Yoake.” The group still wears their signature bell-hop outfits (in gold this time around) while performing said…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsySlDDrjO0&hl=en_US&fs=1] Kinoco Hotel sure love dressing up. When they aren’t wearing their trademark hotel staff uniforms in the video for “Mayonaka No Angel Baby”…and also not slapping one another in them…they dress up as red-haired rockers or vintage J-Pop divas. Those outfit choices serve as a nice metaphor for the song itself, a damaged combination…
I’ve been seeing this band a lot of places recently…primarily, on MySpace banner ads and the covers of magazines. Dismissing Kinocohotel based on their fashion wouldn’t be a radical decision, seeing as this four-piece dresses up as sexy hotel workers employed at a Sgt. Pepper’s themed resort. But there newest single “もえつきたいの” actually allows one…