Nippon banzai!*
I'm so behind on news, but I was talking to CP and I have some simple questions. "Genie," as much as I love it, is an interesting choice to port over to the Japanese market. I mean, this single was SNSD's leap into the "mature" image, the contrast they deliberately provided against their super power sugar pop hit "Love Machine""Gee," which was so
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Re Girlfriend: this video still makes me smile, even if Hercules was riffing off of 60s not 80s. And though I ranted about how Kpop is less melodic, usually SM is more Jpopish in that respect, probably stemming from all of their experience shilling BoA and DBSK.
As in SNSD is better than Perfume? They probably are for having more training in more dance disciplines, but I have a couple other videos showing that Perfume is very much on top of their pop-lock game, possibly still better than T-ara and Kara.
Grrr, we got all of our hopes up for and Eien type single since they hire Lisette, and instead we got...RDR. >:( SNSD is too much associated with super-hooky dance songs at this point to promote a single like that. If we're lucky we'll get a R&B album track. And notice how Shinee's moved away from their Replay image as well. Jojo's the closest they've come to going back to that mellow feel they had for Replay and LLO, but that was the B-side song.
Saito(Boss) is engaged now.
I still haven't watched the Ponytail PV yet, but the latest one I linked, Heavy Rotation, goes quite a bit further(lingerie, not just bikinis) and I only made it in about 30 seconds(D:-ing all the way) before I had to close the tab out of disgust.
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Makes you sympathize with japanese girls longing for girl group alternatives!
I love Perfume's music. "Natural Beauty" is quite insanely poppin' and crackin'. I like how they sound like they did in their early independent days but are among the biggest groups now. And pop artists who consistently work with one producer are almost always better off!
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Besides, it's not like H!P hasn't done those fetishes before. They've done bunny girls, lesbian kiss, bikini video, and rolling around on velvet before. But not all in the same video at once. And no underage girls sharing the bathtub either.
What do you mean by girl group alternatives? There's SCANDAL, dream, and BRIGHT. On the innocent side, you have Tokyo Girls Style and Momoiro Clover who are squeaky clean. And hey, them AKB48 sub-groups ain't bad at all.
I can take Perfume in controlled amounts, usually more if I intersperse them with Capsule. Nakata is amazing.
It depends on the producer. JYP recycles the same damn melodic progression for EVERY SONG nowadays, and the SM groups have benefitted from playing with a wide variety.
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