Hello AramaJapan readers and welcome to this week’s installment of #1 Song Review! Last week, Kanjani8 beat off competition from Sandaime J Soul Brothers and Nishino Kana to come out on top. This week we have 2 new songs! Find out what various staff members thought of the songs that topped the physical and digital charts this week and share your thoughts on them too!
On November 26, up and coming band KANA-BOON will release their new single “Silhouette.””Silhouette” serves as the 16th opening theme for the TV Tokyo anime series “Naruto: Shippuden.” The single comes in 2 editions: a regular CD only edition and a special limited edition. The limited edition includes the same CD as the CD only edition but it also contains a DVD containing 9 songs from their tour DVD that’s released the same day plus a 2015 calendar. All of this is housed inside a special box. The band has also released the music video for the song. Check out the video as well as more information on these releases after the jump!
Yusuke – Kimi
Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku – Haitateki!
SCANDAL – Image
EXILE SHOKICHI – The One
Yasuda Rei – Best of my Love
Denki Groove – Baby’s on Fire
VAMPS – THE JOLLY ROGER
Perfume – Cling Cling
Well-known pop-rock group Ikimonogakari recently decided to reveal the full PV for their upcoming single ‘GOLDEN GIRL’, which is set to release on November 12th. The absolutely adorable music video finds the band’s vocalist Kiyoe dressed up as several different professions, such as an office-worker and a teacher, her time as each persona ending in a synchronized dance with the other girls in the scene.
‘GOLDEN GIRL’ is being used as the theme song for the TBS drama ‘Onna wa Sore wo Yurusanai’, which stars Fukada Kyoko and Terajima Shinobu. The coupling track for the single will be Ikimonogakari’s cover of DREAMS COME TRUE’s ‘Mirai Yosouzu II’, which they recorded earlier this year.
Check out the PV for ‘GOLDEN GIRL’ right after the jump and look forward to the band’s future releases!
Back in September rapper AK-69 uploaded a picture showing himself in the studio with America artist, Fabolous. This alluded to a special collaboration between the two. And yesterday he revealed more info on this release. On December 17th, AK-69 will be dropping a new single, “Oh Lord Featuring Fabolous“. The titular song was produced by Rikki. While the coupling track “Samurai Diesel“, was produced by the NY duo, Sean C and LV.
Check out the tracklist and CD jacket below!
Parts of the blogosphere have been buzzing due to a new potential viral video, unfortunately no cute animals or children are involved. The video in question shows a man covered by a mosaic, hosting some sort of seminar talking about his experiences with Japanese women.
He goes into detail about his exploits in Tokyo and states he was able to get away with it because he’s a white foreigner. Direct quotes from the video:
In Tokyo if you’re a white male you can do what you want.
“Dude, just grab her” Just grab her? But she’s Japanese […] So I pull her in and she kinda like, laughs and giggles, and all you have to say to kinda like take the pressure off is just yell Pikachu, Pokemon, Tamagotchi or something.
What’s fucked too is that every foreigner whose white at least does this.
The video was originally uploaded in September by Japanese youtube user msdoom99. The video only started to pick up steam within the past couple days after it started to make the rounds on tumblr and 4chan. In just one day the video achieved over 80k views bringing the current total to 130k.
AKB48’s upcoming single “Kibouteki Refrain” (Wishful Refrain) features 4 graduated members who appear in the new PV. The PV itself symbolizes the passing of the center position and features Atsuko Maeda (23) Yuko Oshima (26) Mariko Shinoda (28) and Tomomi Itano (23) along with the successive generations in a sprinting relay to pass on two black bags containing golden microphones. These microphones are passed from one member to another before finally ending up with Watanabe Mayu (20) and HKT48’s Sakura Miyawaki (16) who then perform with the rest of the members.