Perfume sure seem productive this year! Two singles and a ballin’ Pepsi commercial deep into 2010, the trio plans on dropping another single, Perfume City tweets. “ねぇ” and awkwardly titled B-side “FAKE IT” come out on November 10. And…maybe an album in 2011? Fingers crossed.
Update: Turns out this addition of Music Station doesn’t run until October 1, meaning I was a whole week early. Well…I guess you can get really comfortable with the songs now. This week’s Music Station seems packed with a lot of big names. I guess they want to start fall off right. Let’s get into…
WEAVER “僕らの永遠～何度生まれ変わっても、手を繋ぎたいだけの愛だから～ “ [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giAj_iHUwdQ”] First, props to WEAVER for giving their new single a name so long it couldn’t fit on a Butterfinger wrapper. That takes some balls. Unfortunately, that testicular fortitude doesn’t surface anywhere on the actual song. This single…not gonna copy/paste the title…seems custom made for feel-good radio stations moms tune into and…
Perfume’s 2010 output has followed a pretty business-like pattern thus far. The girls tackle a typical Perfume-sounding song for side A, said single getting the majority of playtime and advertising push. Meanwhile, Yasutaka Nakata puts in overtime at the lab for the B-side, creating thrilling new pop-concoctions which push the trio into interesting new territory….
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDdnAhS54A0&hl=en_US&fs=1] Hey, haven’t blabbed about Perfume enough this week have I?! This time, we revisit the trio’s earlier 2010 singles, as American producer Christopher Wade remixed both “Fushizen Na Girl” and the pop knockout “Natural Ni Koishite.” The prior gets slowed down a bit, Perfume’s once darting vocals sliced into neon-drift sounds. Whereas the original…