Where is the LOVE for Perfume?

literally the best show i've ever seen

Yup, spent the whole gig raging
Every intro to every song was so good

all of the songs sounded so huge

Posted this last night on Twitter:

Perfume postmortem: my knees hurt from 90 minutes of bouncing, my face hurts from 90 minutes of grinning. Best show I've seen this decade.

so soooooo fun. I wanted another hour!

very happy that ny got bagel shout outs.

anyone else see the guy in a jacket completely covered in idol pins? respect.

In the "generic interview questions" handout I got from the publicist, they specified that they were talking about Murray's Bagels, a choice I support 100%.

There was a dude right near me in a jacket with the cover of Converge's Jane Doe painted on the back.

yeah, what did they say instead of murray's? I just assumed they meant murray's too.

i actually think they said murray's

the 15 minute digression on bagels is basically my favorite variation of someone stalling bc of technical difficulties

and man, "my color" was a dynamite closer. what a song

it's one of my faves but I'd resigned myself to not hearing it by then. man, I was so psyched when it kicked in!!

My review of the show.

｢Relax In The City / Pick Me Up｣ Double A-side Single 2015/04/29 (http://www.sapporobeer.jp/greenaroma/) Release 決定！！

http://www.sapporobeer.jp/greenaroma/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNXwV8RkZ3U

Love double A-sides, double MVs, more fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZiPIgCtIxg

Makes my head spin

that's the best thing i've ever seen

Yeah, that was amazing.

I have no idea what is going on in that video, but I want to be there

new song is really really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhfYis6VuXY

Yesss. and that gorgeous video. HD!

I have no doubt that is an accurate representation of shopping in Shinjuku

“Sukoshi Fushigi” is a sort-of catchphrase the creator of Doraemon, Fujiko F. Fujio, used when he was alive to describe his style of stories. It translates to “Slightly Mysterious” and is used as an alternate form of “SF” which usually stands for “Science Fiction” in Japan.

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into nocchi's more confident-sounding singing; not so into the added acoustic guitar but i hated "spending all my time" at first and now it's one of my favorites. video is great.

I seem to have lost the LOVE for (new) Perfume. The magic seems to have gone for me in their latest work, maybe I’ll get it later but it all sounds so conventional now.

yeah, I feel ya

'Pick Me Up' is definitely quite conventional but it is also good. I like it a lot.

Listening to the whole 3-track single it's one of their strongest releases in years.

Here's the MV for Relax in the City https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mo95i_perfume-relax-in-the-city_music

And here's the B-side https://vimeo.com/126262930

really like that b-side <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK4GDYwR_Lk
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2oyh61_pick-me-up-mj_music

Finally got hip to this outfit after jbr FB post.

jbr?

rtf

I really like Relax in the City.

Possibly the best MV collection in the world is now reuploaded in full HD http://www.youtube.com/user/Perfume/search?query=mv

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http://cdn2.natalie.mu/media/1509/0903/extra/news_header_Perfume_art201508.jpg

Just posting this pic twice. It's PR for upcoming single STAR TRAIN, October 28

STAR TRAIN

as many styles nakata has gone thru over the years i sincerely hope his bro-EDM turn is short-lived

I dunno, oddly the slight EDM touches on some Perfume singles have humanized them in an interesting way.

yeah i love "spending all my time," "party maker," and "pick me up" so it's whatever

Nakata's latest Kyary single on the other hand falls flat and seems to flop on JP charts as well. She was outselling Perfume for a short period.

I don't know if I want Perfume too human - seeing one of them barefoot in their last video was actually weirdly shocking. (This only applies to their music, obviously; I've been in the room with them, I know they're human beings.)

It's interesting. On the last two albums they have definitely moved towards less processed vocals. I don't want them to make regular ol' pop of course. They're Perfume. But at the same time there's something tantalizing in peeking behind the mask, and the emotional effect of clean voices breaking through in parts of their songs has been strong. A-chan, at least, is also a v good vocalist. We're certainly at the point in time, 15 years into their career, where it's difficult to invent without messing with their signature. Do they need to invent? I don't know. But I've promised myself to not be reactionary about it. I've seen them live three times and they gave me very different faces of the group in those three shows. Very different venues, approaches. From intimate to big and epic to fun and frivolous. They're versatile, in a way. I just hope they and Nakata can have fun creating new music.

/ aimless rant of a stan

"spending my time" is incredible but only the single version

haven't really felt much of their other EDM stuff. nakata's giving his interesting material to this new kid nowadays, forget her name but i heard a song a couple months back that was definitely where his creativity's been going

latest capsule LP was very boring; esp so considering CAPS LOCK was a neat little album of surprising melodic IDM-y instrumentals

xp When Kyary got started people were saying Nakata gave the good stuff to her, now it's a new one. I don't really agree. I think Perfume is a sort of constant in Nakata's career, the girls a guarantee for a steady high quality. His Kyary work has varied, his Capsule work is hit and miss, his inspiration for other projects varies comes and goes, but Perfume has never really had a bad streak or spotty album. But I agree he seems more playful with Natsume Mito than Kyary these days. We'll see how long it lasts.

i love perfume at their best but i would never consider them an albums group, like maybe barely game...i think their singles and b-sides continued to improve up through LEVEL3, but the run of EDM and phoned in j-pop singles since then has left me pretty cold

honestly i wouldn't consider anything nakata's done to be a top-to-bottom great release, w/ the possible exception of coltemonikha 2

barely game?

:|

hi again brad :) been missing you