After missing Music Station last week (gasp!), I’m sad to announce this week’s edition will be rapid fire as I need to pack for a brief vacation. Sorry! But most of these songs speak for themselves. Carly Rae Jepsen “Call Me Maybe” At long long long last, one of 2012’s best pop songs is going…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khhtt1qrrMA”] Honestly the schoolgirl uniforms should have been a warning. Yet Osaka J-Rock group SCANDAL made such catchy music that I couldn’t help but be enchanted (not in a bound-for-a-database sorta way) despite the super-clear red flag being waved dramatically in my face. Their music for the most part sounded like more-than-competent J-Rock and once…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dalOhMk5Wqk”] Man, I really hate to be THAT guy…the one stereotypical dude/ette who always says something similar to what I’m about to write and immediately puts off everyone around them because of it…but I think getting a mainstream push has sorta ruined SCANDAL. Prepare rotten garbage and shouts of “pretentious dick!” now, but the group’s…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t53j3xVyuxY&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Following the relative clank of their last single “Shukan Sentimental,” Osaka schoolgirl quartet SCANDAL strike back with the much more enjoyable blast of “Story.” Whereas “Sentimental” came off as really phoned in, the band just happy to be soundtracking the credits to a popular anime, “Story” wastes none of its four-minute run. The verses…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbAccdZDKik&hl=en_US&fs=1&] SCANDAL’s songs aren’t growers: they either hook you right off the bat or end up unchecked in iTunes. Last year’s singles compilation BEST★SCANDAL highlighted this perfectly, the best numbers (“Koi Moyou,” “SAKURA Goodbye”) firing off from the get-go and pulling listeners far in enough to hit them with the band’s best skill – the…