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[Anderei]

I've been listening to a band called Gacharic Spin that I'm really enjoying. Their drummer and their keyboardist do the vocals since their main vocalist left.

 
Nudie Rhythm
 
Next Stage

[Madara]

Has anyone here heard of Miki Imai? I was in Book Off and thought the name sounded familiar, so I looked her albums over in the $2 sale section and recognized one song, "Boogie Woogie Lonesome High Heel," which was once performed by Yuko Nakazawa on Uta Doki! Pop Classics. That was as good a recommendation as any, so I picked up two of her albums, "Retour" and "Ivory," which has that song. Turns out she was born in 1963 and has been active since 1986. She's married to musician/composer Tomoyasu Hotei, who's represented on the KILL BILL VOL. 1 soundtrack. She did the voice of Taeko, the adult protagonist in Studio Ghibli's animated drama, ONLY YESTERDAY (1991), a magnificent film. I'm listening to "Ivory" right now and her singing is simply beautiful. Her rendition of "Boogie Woogie..." is much softer than Yuko's. There's a jazz singer vibe to some of her songs.
 
Why haven't I known about her? Why has she not been on my radar? Why has she not been on any of the FNS Music Festivals I've seen (four of them) or Kohaku Uta Gassen?
 
There are always new discoveries to be made.
 

[showraniy]

I just got back from a Lindsey Stirling show. She was very amazing, and super personable. More when I'm not dead tired.

[Zaeleus]

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="showraniy" data-cid="176916" data-time="1402370547">I just got back from a Lindsey Stirling show. She was very amazing, and super personable. More when I'm not dead tired.</blockquote>
I didn't know she was touring; thanks for the heads up! Even though a lot of venues are sold out, I was able to snag tickets to the one nearest me.

[Ap2000]

The most watched music videos on MTV ("best selling" as they call it) on the 90s:
http://www.mtv.co.uk/music/charts/the-official-top-100-singles-of-the-90s

Pretty interesting, I'd say.

[Anderei]

Does anyone here listen to Tokyo Girls' Style? I just got around to listening to Killing Me Softly and it's probably one of my favorite idol albums I've ever heard.

[star]

-Quietly raises hand-

[Anderei]

lol why quietly? General consensus tends to be that they're pretty great. Which songs were your favorites?

[Mukuro]

I really love that album. My favourite is Juujika.

[Anderei]

I think Pain is my favorite but Unmei is a close second.

[star]

Well I dont actively follow them, I just catch up on everything all at once every so often and I'm a little behind eight now. But yes, they are amazing.

Some of my favorites are Limited Addiction, Unmei, Bad Flower, and Kodo no Himitsu.

[sayu1991]

I haven't heard their new album and I don't follow them in the same way that I follow H!P but I love Tokyo Girls Style. They put out some great music and PVs. I haven't heard their new album but my favorite songs out of all of theirs that I've heard are Kodo no Himitsu, Limited Addiction, Tsuioku, and Sayonara, Arigatou.

[Shoujo Q]

Pinkbabies! A new Pink Lady Idol Cover Group. YouTube Page
 
UFO / Wanted


I love Pink Lady and I love Idol Groups and I love cover songs. This is totally a nitch group that will eventuall flop unless they can create their own music, but I'll enjoy it while it's here!

[ShiroiChanUK]

Does anyone know what time Music Dragon starts? :)
 
[quote="Anderei"]
Does anyone here listen to Tokyo Girls' Style? I just got around to listening to Killing Me Softly and it's probably one of my favorite idol albums I've ever heard.
[/quote]
I love them! The first song of theirs I heard was Kodou no Himitsu and I became a fan when I heard Liar :) I love Tsuioku, it's one of my favourite singles :) Unfortunately I haven't had the chance to listen to their new album yet but hopefully I'll be able to soon :)

[Meikochi]

Found this a few days ago and totally loved !
Momoka Ito (Fairies) - Poker Face  
Nothing original but it's really catchy, she's perfect in the MV and her voice totally fits the song.

[Derby]

^ I've been a couple of days replaying Bling Bling my Love now that I'm trying to listen more to Fairies
I didn't want to hear to Poker Face because it's a solo but it sounds really good

[star]

So I thought I'd post this here since a few people here were interested in them, but Seremedy got back together for a last live show and released a final mini album/single.
The feels from this have been killing me recently T-T
The mini album, Re:madness
http://www.mediafire.com/download/u0a2fgj72etm113/Seremedy+-+re_MADNESS.zip
 
And the single from it, Diverge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym_0USYhEuw

[rob]

Any Sakura Gakuin fans?
 
Heart no Hoshi is out on itunes right now and I think it's pretty damn awesome

[Madara]

Does anyone here know where there's a tracklist--in English--for the latest FNS Kayosai (Music Festival), recorded on Dec. 3, 2014?
I picked up the DVDs for that tonight but have no idea who's on it.
 
Thanks.
 
 

[kira]

Is it this year's?


Johnny's Medley

[spoiler2]Johnny's WEST - Eejanaika
A.B.C-Z - Crazy Accel
Sexy Zone - Sexy Zone
Kis-My-Ft2 - Everybody Go
Hey! Say! JUMP - Ultra Music Power / Asu e no YELL
KAT-TUN - Real Face / In Fact
Kanjani∞ - Musekinin Hero
NEWS - Kibou ~Yell~
Takizawa Hideaki - Venus
Arashi - A・RA・SHI
V6 - Ai Nanda / Sky's The Limit
KinKi Kids - Glass no Shounen
TOKIO - LOVE YOU ONLY
SMAP - SHAKE
Kondo Masahiko x Arashi x KAT-TUN - Gin Gira Gin ni Sarigenaku
Kondo Masahiko x V6 x Johnny's WEST - Sneaker Blues
Kondo Masahiko x Sexy Zone x A.B.C-Z - Blue Jeans Memory
Kondo Masahiko x SMAP x Kis-My-Ft2 - Highteen Boogie
Kondo Masahiko x NEWS x Hey! Say! JUMP - Kejimenasai
Kondo Masahiko x TOKIO x Kanjani∞ - Orokamono
Kondo Masahiko x Kinki Kids x Takizawa Hideaki - Sennen Renbo

[/spoiler2]


Performing Artists
[spoiler2]aiko

絢香 (Ayaka)

嵐 (Arashi)

E－girls

家入レオ (Ieiri Reo)

いきものがかり (Ikimonogakari)

伊勢正三 (Ise Shozo)

イルカ (Iruka)

ウエンツ瑛士 (Wentz Eiji)

AKB48

HKT48

A．B．C－Z

EXILE TRIBE

SKE48

NMB48

大原櫻子 (Ohara Sakurako)

片平里菜 (Katahira Rina)

KAT－TUN

華原朋美 (Kahala Tomomi)

関ジャニ∞ (Kanjani8)

岸谷香 (Kishitani Kaori)

氣志團 (Kishidan)

Kis－My－Ft2

きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ (Kyary Pamyu Pamyu)

KinKi Kids

キング・クリームソーダ (King Cream Soda)

倉木麻衣 (Kuraki Mai)

Crystal Kay

クリス・ハート (Chris Hart)

GLAY

郷ひろみ (Go Hiromi)

ゴールデンボンバー (Golden Bomber)

ゴスペラーズ (Gospellers)

小室哲哉 (Komuro Tetsuya)

近藤真彦 (Masahiko Kondo)

さかいゆう (Sakai Yuu)

三代目 J Soul Brothers (Sandaime J Soul Brothers)

THE ALFEE

シェネル (Che'Nelle)

GENERATIONS

ジャニーズWEST (Johnny's West)

JUJU

Superfly

鈴木雅之 (Suzuki Masayuki)

SMAP

SEKAI NO OWARI

Sexy Zone

宝塚歌劇団 (Takurazuka Revue Company)

滝沢秀明 (Takizawa Hideaki)

谷村新司 (Tanimura Shinji)

T．M．Revolution

TOKIO

徳永英明 (Tokunaga Hideaki)

Dream5

ナオト・インティライミ (Naoto Inti Raymi)

西内まりや (Nishiuchi Mariya)
西野カナ (Nishino Kana)

NEWS

乃木坂46 (Nogizaka46)

秦基博 (Hata Motohiro)

Perfume

平井堅 (Hirai Ken)

V6

舞祭組 (Busaiku)

藤井尚之 (Fujii Naoyuki)

藤井フミヤ (Fujii Fumiya)

ふなっしー (Funassyi)

flumpool

Hey！Say！JUMP

ポルノグラフィティ (Porno Graffitti)

槇原敬之 (Makihara Noriyuki)

松下奈緒 (Matsushita Nao)

観月ありさ (Mizuki Arisa)

南こうせつ (Minami Kosetsu)

宮本笑里 (Miyamoto Emiri)

miwa

May J．

ももいろクローバーZ (Momoiro Clover Z)

森高千里 (Moritaka Chisato)

森山直太朗 (Moriyama Naotaro)

yukarie

ゆず (Yuzu)

和田アキ子 (Wada Akiko)[/spoiler2]
 
I don't think the list is in order of performance though. I can only really tell you what the medley had since that's all I watched...

[Madara]

Thanks, Kira. I found Fuji TV's tracklist in Japanese, so I can use your performers' list to i.d. the performers listed in Japanese only. Sounds like a lot of the same performers from previous years are back. At least AKB48 and Mai Kuraki are there.
 

[aisasami]

Not many people outside Japan know this guy but he is very popular in Japan right now. Chris Hart is an African-American singer from California who sings and speaks flawless Japanese. He is amazing (and my role model)! He will make his second Kouhaku appearance on Wednesday.
 
"Mamoritai" is one of the original songs that he released this year. 
 
http://youtu.be/h0vQjS0jOOo
 
"I LOVE YOU"
 
http://youtu.be/k7D6CguCXqc
 
He sings a lot of cover and ballad-type songs. Here is his sub-channel on Youtube if you want to listen to more/

[Madara]

[quote="aisasami"]
Not many people outside Japan know this guy but he is very popular in Japan right now. Chris Hart is an African-American singer from California who sings and speaks flawless Japanese. He is amazing (and my role model)! He will make his second Kouhaku appearance on Wednesday.
 
"Mamoritai" is one of the original songs that he released this year. 
 
http://youtu.be/h0vQjS0jOOo
 
"I LOVE YOU"
 
http://youtu.be/k7D6CguCXqc
 
He sings a lot of cover and ballad-type songs. Here is his sub-channel on Youtube if you want to listen to more/
[/quote]
 
Thanks for the heads-up. This gives me a reason to pick up Kouhaku Uta Gassen when it shows up next week in my Japanese video store. I'm curious to see him perform in that context. 

[ShiroiChanUK]

I only heard of him very recently :) He did a great cover of Meri Kuri by BoA :)

[Madara]

I delve into some J-pop prehistory on my blog, taking a look at Shizuko Kasagi, who was popular years before Hibari Misora and who hit it big with "Tokyo Boogie Woogie" two years after the war ended.
She was in a movie by Kurosawa, DRUNKEN ANGEL, in which she performs "Jungle Boogie," and I include some paragraphs on it from a book I've been reading on the "Geopolitical History of J-pop." 
 

 

[Anderei]

A 3b Jr idol has been in a coma after inhaling helium:


http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2015/02/04/3b-junior-idol-in-coma-after-inhaling-helium-on-tv-asahi-program/


I hope she'll be okay. :/

[showraniy]

That's a pretty major fuck up on the studio's part, and I hope for their sake that the idol's family doesn't choose to go legal on them. Or maybe I'm just thinking of America, where people seem quick to sue for everything.

[Anderei]

By adult, it actually just means that only adults should be using it to fill balloons and stuff. Theoretically, helium is no more dangerous for a child than an adult, so I'm not sure they'd have a legal leg to stand on (I'm no lawyer though).


And someone posted a photo from what I presume is the show and it looks like they were closing their nostrils when inhaling the helium, which.. seems dangerous because in that case the helium has no way to escape the body.

[showraniy]

The impression I got from it is that the machine they were using was made with an adult's body in mind for inhaling it. I'm no scientist, but my guess is that she inhaled too much helium and deprived her brain of enough oxygen to stay conscious or something. An adult's body could probably take a higher amount of helium before any problems started, so my impression from my quick read-through is that no one responsible for the segment took the girls' safety into account while they were doing it


If they used a balloon full of helium instead of a machine, then I have no idea, but her safety was still in the hands of people who clearly weren't paying enough attention to what was going on. This is all wild guessing on my part since so little was said in the article, but "reckless endangerment" was the first thought in my head for legal action.


I'm also not promoting the idea that the parents go legal (especially with an offense that may not even exist in other legal systems), but I feel like a lawsuit would be the first thing to happen if this happened in America. We're kinda sue-happy here, especially parents suing someone over their child's safety.

[Anderei]

My post is just what a Japanese speaker on H!O said after looking into it. They're actually inhaling straight from the can:



I don't know if that's the actual girl in question, but it looks like fans have already figured out who it was from her age and because her name starts with an A.


This is what the H!O user had to say about it:

'The articles who mention her specifically only refer to her as 12-year-old A-chan, which leads us to believe that it was Aira (she goes by a stage name of one name only). Also, the can says, "For adult use only," because only adults should be using it responsibly to inflate balloons, not because they can tolerate the gas, as adults have suffered from air embolisms and died from inhaling it previously, as well.


While I don't want to undermine what happened to her or make light of the company not taking proper safety precautions, this is an exceptionally rare occurrence and it's difficult to place blame when they are far from the first company to do a bit like this for entertainment and definitely not the first idol company, either (never mind the many of us who have done it for fun at parties). The most you can say is that they should have used balloons or a depressurized can or not done it at all, but it's a tragic accident where no one could have foreseen it happening. Others who have suffered an air embolism and survived have had very quick and normal recoveries, so let's hope the same goes for her.'