Ahhhhhhh it made me go a bit weird. I like it.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
great video! the song reminds me of "1 Thing" - the beat and the "love me riiiiiight" bit in the chorus, especially.
― Roz, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 23:51 (eight years ago) link
The only election in Japan with a good turnout
http://i.imgur.com/AM6M6lIl.jpg
― abcfsk, Saturday, 6 June 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
ANNOUNCE // Kyary Pamyu Pamyu returns to the UK in October for a live show at The Roundhouse as part of Moshi Moshi Nippon Festival. Tickets on sale Friday: http://gigst.rs/KPP
― MaresNest, Monday, 6 July 2015 18:42 (eight years ago) link
http://orig13.deviantart.net/9e4d/f/2013/307/7/1/thumbs_up_by_weapons_expert_cool-d6sx4o7.gif
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsPhRDWkCrU
― original bgm, Monday, 6 July 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
That's pretty pretty good
Also
http://www.rocksound.tv/assets/uploads/babymetal_wembley2015.jpg
In spite of their popularity and viral attention I think it's actually underreported how genuinely they've become a hit in the west. They're doing the main stage of the Reading festival as they announce this huge solo concert. They've been playing for hundreds of thousands in Europe and the US this summer. I really want them to get out that new album soon, because I have a feeling it could hit high on Billboard.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 10:25 (eight years ago) link
yeh its crazy how big they've become, looking it up that's a 12,500 venue?guess i was predisposed to like them but the BiSH album has really grown on me, one of the girls Aina has an amazing full-on voice. this new song is not on the album and is the first as a 6 piece. folk metal with a video where they fight a giant lobster? well ok then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpLLKM_3ebk
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
Bish have started finding their own character, yeah. Doubt they'll come close to the impact of BiS but still good news.
New Passepied is too good, what a chorus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gm7qYBkfr8
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 08:31 (eight years ago) link
yeah, 12000 seater for baby metal in england is phenomenal. they're cleaning up.
― soyrev, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 10:54 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1546Z08uTUk
― abcfsk, Thursday, 8 October 2015 08:22 (eight years ago) link
Campanella still killing it, album is being put out in the west on Dec 18th by French label Specific, digitally and on vinyl
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 8 October 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
I am enjoying Dalljub Step Club a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdOtoE0ysYc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGBvjLAkhIw
― MaresNest, Thursday, 8 October 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
And Skillkills too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6mkWYJfx3A
― MaresNest, Thursday, 8 October 2015 17:36 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuuUfP4uJEk
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 05:42 (eight years ago) link
new album is so great, really getting more adventerous!
tho i do wish there were less trap beatz... *shrugs*
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 06:11 (eight years ago) link
Wow, that track is full of teh feels. Love it!
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 19 November 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
it reminds me of the Tough Alliance heh
― Roz, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
Utada Hikaru is in the news again as Adele tries to beat her one week world record of 3m+ sales.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhUkPnAsX8Y
― abcfsk, Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:11 (eight years ago) link
This is alrightish though I am never going to love these sorts of vocals. Possibly too indie pop for this thread though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N09q-MBN9cY#t=121
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
new koutei camera girl is out, trashy idol mortal kombat soundtrack music is the besthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhUkPnAsX8Y
rippin anime ballad on that PV ain't bad either
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 31 December 2015 02:50 (eight years ago) link
also, new sayonara ponytail TRIPLE album! haven't listened yet but this single is great:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psrAnGOBvU8
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 31 December 2015 03:02 (eight years ago) link
Billy Idle released three of the best songs of yhe year
https://youtu.be/UuvWIjGkEGMhttps://youtu.be/SrCEoYIdSMghttps://youtu.be/ont1iRQAz1A
― abcfsk, Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:37 (eight years ago) link
new BiSH video is pretty lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j2NvbuUbs8
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 7 January 2016 18:51 (eight years ago) link
avandoned are pretty great:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c1H2ZShoFs
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 8 January 2016 06:14 (eight years ago) link
Sounds very much like bis or Helen Love.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 10:41 (eight years ago) link
Let's get light-hearted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl7B_7h2-OM
― abcfsk, Saturday, 30 January 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
Best Momoiro Clover single in a long while
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPKX9gsZhi8
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 05:50 (eight years ago) link
...aaaand two new momoiro clover albums just dropped
I haven't even liked any of their singles since 5th dimension really... but man... still feel like calling in sick to work and just playing these a lot tomorrow http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/emoticonshd.com/emoji/64/Emoticon-Thinking-Confused-Shrug-icon.png
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 06:18 (eight years ago) link
Word on the street is Amaranthus is pretty great and their most coherent album-album yet. Still haven't found time to take a listen.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 07:35 (eight years ago) link
so, this is good shit. hakkin no yoake initially feeling like battle and romance anime mayhem, amaranthus like 5th dimension classic rock moves. gonna need some time to take it all in but surprised by how much I'm enjoying these. kinda wrote momoiro clover off for a minute!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 18 February 2016 05:44 (eight years ago) link
Keyakizaka46 debut single "Silent Majority" http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k3oZTwoBwp9AMUg8YfX
― abcfsk, Thursday, 17 March 2016 05:46 (eight years ago) link
Almost a full BiS reunion including Mitchel <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKUX8KKKbM4
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 14:05 (eight years ago) link
BiSH's major label debut is a 90 second punky thrash? hell yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-hs9iqBDHM
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 12:26 (eight years ago) link
I've played that song a lot in the past week.
― abcfsk, Saturday, 16 April 2016 07:39 (eight years ago) link
The HatsuneKaidan album is a surprisingly easy listen, guess it helps that Junko isn't screaming all over it lol. Has covers of songs by Perfume, Jun Togawa, protopunk weirdos Zuno Keisatsu amongst othersyou can listen to it and buy the LP(!) here
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 16 April 2016 08:16 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tHJwoSRcBc
song of the year
― soyrev, Monday, 2 May 2016 11:42 (seven years ago) link
^^obsessed with this now, thanks
― Roz, Saturday, 7 May 2016 13:59 (seven years ago) link
Was coming on to the thread to post the very same song. I know FEMM's stuff but not really familiar with the others of the group.
http://aramajapan.com/news/music/femm-faky-and-yupin-combine-to-create-fammin-with-mindblowing-results/58103/
― emil.y, Saturday, 7 May 2016 14:41 (seven years ago) link
patrick st. michel provides solid context:
http://makebelievemelodies.com/?p=12656
if the rest of the EP is any indication, the individual acts' music is fine but nothing special. the FAKY song that autoplays after FAMM'IN on youtube is the best i've heard from the lot, sort of like old japanese market SM stuff, which makes sense given avex was the label for most of that.
but "circle"...i wouldn't hesitate to put it in my j-pop top 5. at least since the '80s
― soyrev, Sunday, 8 May 2016 03:20 (seven years ago) link
This tofubeats is pretty pop, but it probably doesn't belong on the j-pop thread. So where does it belong? The Japanese indie thread seems more underground oriented.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqAhbhffpU
The video is a bit too patty-cake-patty-cake for me, but I kind of like the song.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 12 June 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
new Tentenko single is a fun lofi rewrite of Roadrunner + toytown noise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDX3dEzXz20
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link
Really liked this 2016 single, which to my unseasoned J-pop ears sounded like Perfume's "Polyrhythm" with Skrillexy cut-up production.
Aira Mitsuki - Detective Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDa8Q3hUDIY
Is this an emerging style, where the idol becomes an electronica producer's toy, even more so in more "mainstream" J=pop? I want more of this.
― gesticulating Pez dispenser (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
where the idol becomes an electronica producer's toy
That's most J-Pop. Or at least all Nakata.
― DeskRobot, Thursday, 15 September 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
Jun Togawa is releasing a new album shocker! recorded with Vampillia, out in December.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkNU0QbXVsw
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 14 October 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
that's a Yapoos track isn't it?
her voice definitely sounding a bit different these days!
― frogbs, Friday, 14 October 2016 14:24 (seven years ago) link
yes, a Yapoos track. looking at the tracklisting there's only one new song at the end http://natalie.mu/music/news/205511
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 14 October 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, the way I read their announcement was it was an anniversary thing? But it's all rerecordings of her old songs, not a comp of them, right?
― emil.y, Friday, 14 October 2016 16:12 (seven years ago) link
when was the last time she recorded any legitimately new songs? the last Yapoos album was in 1995 I believe, doesn't seem like she's done a lot since then. seems a bit odd to come back just to re-record old tunes.
― frogbs, Friday, 14 October 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jWLioW7Zx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEGjoWVJKNk
the last few Wednesday Campanella singles have been excellent
― ufo, Thursday, 17 November 2016 10:34 (seven years ago) link