The Matsui Hiroshi Power HourAll arrangements by Matsui Hiroshi (松井寛) / Royal Mirrorball   
ArtistSongInstrumentalOriginal / LiveBass cover video
Tokyo Girls Style (東京女子流)Himawari to Hoshikuzu (ヒマワリと星屑) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yduuHMe1KQ8Read more... )

ArtistSongBassArrangerCommentInstrumentalOriginal / LiveBass cover video
Morning Musume (モーニング娘。)Inspiration! (インスピレーション!)Komatsu Hideyuki (小松秀行)Suzuki Shunsuke (鈴木俊介) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj5YGYsHfLgRead more... )

ArtistSongBassArrangerCommentSessionOriginal / LiveBass cover video
Morning Musume (モーニング娘。)Utakata Saturday Night (泡沫サタデーナイト！)Sasamoto Yasushi (笹本安詞)Suzuki Shunsuke (鈴木俊介)(Plus a bonus look at what disco strings look like live)https://youtu.be/VAWFBieJsbE?t=1477Read more... )

Yamamoto Sayaka
Suzuki Airi
Oda Sakura
Wada Ayaka
Makino Maria

I feel like Tsugitsugi Zokuzoku is the promise of Kimi Sae Ireba Nani Mo Iranai realized. As much as Tsunku deviated from classic Jpop melody-writing in some ways, and could do a good job of genre emulation when first dipping his toes in, (see Platinum Era MM) he also could not escape some Jpop's core trends.

According to this, both composition ( Read more... )

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/25/471817328/peer-pressure-may-not-work-the-way-we-think-it-doesRead more... )

And, honestly, Maria actually does have the most masculine swagger of the three ( Read more... )

http://momuse.tumblr.com/post/136661982823/1-%E5%90%8D%E7%84%A1%E3%81%97%E5%8B%9F%E9%9B%86%E4%B8%AD-o-20160103%E6%97%A5-18012572

Maria is like if Dawa skipped her awk stage and went straight to the hawt phase.

I really enjoyed checking out MaaRiho these past few days ( Read more... )