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FUCKING HELL.

Ah well, I still consider it a song/arrangement/performance package that is possibly perfect.

How much more pimping can this monster produce!?

Tangent 1: Jpop ballads achieve their emotional heartstring tugging through arrangement.
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One of SNSD's supposed big appeal points is in how they well they sync up in their 9-person formations. "Military precision" is the phrase often employed. The style of sync SNSD usually has is based in rigidity. They snap into poses together at the same angles, position after position after position. Perfume also specializes in this ( Read more... )

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Not as good as Limited Addiction, but only in that the verse isn't as striking. That chorus makes up for everything. The arrangement doesn't also have as immediately memorable a hook, but in terms of complexity it's just as if not more complex than Himawari's, so I still love this song a whole freaking lot. The chorus is so good I don't even mind ( Read more... )

The secret is not to suppress their loliness, but rather to acknowledge that despite it, young girls can be sophisticated. Children are both more and less mature than we tend to treat them, and both Jpop and Kpop girlgroups tend to handle kids with kid gloves and make "Look at these kids! They're kids!" a selling point. (Though the former is "Awwww ( Read more... )

Holy fucking shit!

Miori is the star of "Ikemen Desu ne"! Which also has Haruna and Yukirin in it!

SweetS! AKB48! Kpop connection!


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