I think that I’ve made it clear how much I appreciate Kanna Arihara - as well as appreciating her lust for the other members of Hello!Project. Now she her haircut is looking more and more similar to Nocchi from Perfume. That’s just not fair.
The PV is everywhere.
Things are a mess, literally, at TLS Headquarters. I’ve only watched it once so I can’t go over everything about why this PV is great. My favorite reason so far (besides seeing a million Nocchi’s):
Achievements Attained:
Terminal Velocity Fall 30,000 feet. 5
Hopefully will be back later today with a full review.
Looking at Perfume City today, I saw that there is a preview of Perfume’s next single, “Love the world.” It is definitely more light-hearted than the more popular songs of GAME, specifically the title track “GAME” and “Secret Secret.” While this will only empower the people who say that all of Perfume’s songs sound alike, I get a “polyrhythm” vibe from this song.
But then again, it is expected that people will think all of Perfume’s music sounds the same. I remember an Idolizing St.Anna entry, and this dates back to 2006, about Perfume at a live concert. I’ll never forget what Kashiyuka said about Perfume’s music:
“If you like techno, this album will be interesting. But if you don’t, all the songs sound same.”
(Edit June 19, 2008 4:18AM): The Youtube link is dead. If you want to listen to the preview, there is this post at the Perfume City BBS.
This is great. Perfume City, which has always been my favorite place for Perfume news, converted to Wordpress and has a RSS feed. Apparently they did this at the beginning of June. I wish I kept up to date. Well, I’ll be able to now…
Now I can easily respond to Perfume news as well! Like to the covers of their next single, Love The World.
Regular Edition:
Limited Edition:
Kashiyuka is in the middle of both, which is fine. It’s not like she dominates the cover despite being the focus (See: Risako Sugaya and Yuke Yuke Monkey Dance covers).
Love The World is coming out July 9. That may seem like it is rushed. Perfume is incredibly hot product right now, so I see it is at capitalizing. This is only the 2nd single of 2008 for Perfume. 2006 and 2007 both only had 2 singles, and that was too little each time. I look forward to a third single released later on this year.
Plus a July 9 release means a new PV is soon.
I should have seen it coming. Last February, Perfume was on Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ, which I wrote a post about. Perfume was very friendly with Porno Graffiti, who were also guests on the episode. A comment on the same post cleared up the connection between Perfume and Porno Graffiti for me. Why didn’t I see this coming? See what coming? Why, Perfume and Porno Graffiti collaborating with each other.
I could have made so many jokes over the last few months…
The PV is already out and it is ridiculously good. Now, I loved “GAME”, but I am more excited about them being featured on this PV than I was about “GAME.” I know that I am going to need to explain that one. And well, since Perfume is my favorite group right now, and has been for some time, I might as well go over it. As well as posting a bunch of screen caps.
Watch it first though:
There were not many Ai Kago reactions after all.
Buono’s Kiss!Kiss!Kiss! PV was released and can be viewed at some boys blog. I haven’t watched it yet so I don’t have any opinion. I just like that, after 2 previous singles, it’s possible to label this PV as “Typical Buono.”
There are more reviews for Perfume’s GAME. Shanimuni Paradise and boylikesmusicPerfume. It pains me to see that neither of them enjoy “take me take me” as much as I do. I will freely admit that I’m liking this song because it was made for the exact reasons Shanimuni points out:
If there was ever fan service in a song…….
They had an album called Fan Service, they are not above this!
I do enjoy that GAME is getting reactions to Perfume across the blogs. It’ll take some time to win over more fans and there are some who simply won’t pay attention to this group at all. This is slowly changing.
Posted on the Hello!Online tracker was Morning Musume’s appearance on Utaban. I am going to review this for TLS later on today as I have some fun comments for it. But real quick, this is a combination of mainstream Japan’s opinion of Morning Musume (Utaban doesn’t care about Momusu anymore) and an episode of Haromoni (boring rubbish as we watch Momusu watch other people do nothing). I would recommend watching this but it really is no different from the last few years of Morning Musume on these shows.
As for Airi Suzuki’s third photobook (from strawberrie)…
Aika. Kanna. Junjun.
As this is the first entry of this style, I want to catch up on a week of entries instead of just the most recent. I’ll be focusing on the last few days if I can. Furthermore, I have a lot of blog reading to catch up on. I’ve been working on the new theme today so I’m pretty far behind.
There is a new wave of podcasting in our International Wota community. My Pleasant Vista, Pink Wota, Stuck in a Pagoda with Motoko Aoyama, The H!P Opinions of a Metalhead and Raid My Minibar all have new podcasts within the last few days. It is a much more personable style that lots of IW bloggers have taken to. I really am interested to see not only who keeps at it but who else decides to try their hand at podcasting.
As for the current podcasts, I have to admit that I’ve skipped over the music that is played. I either know the song already or would rather listen to the suggested music at my own leisure. I wouldn’t suggest to anyone that is going to be podcasting to completely drop the idea of playing music. It depends on what type of audience you want. Personally, I love talk radio. Therefore, I am going to enjoy the parts where the host is talking more so than the music the host plays.
The big news today that I want to share comes from wiki.theppn.org, which has the sales charts for Oricon Week 17. What’s important to me is Perfume and Morning Musume.
Morning Musume clocks in at 3rd with 48k sales. Is this good? I think lots of fans will definitely be happy. I wouldn’t call it a resurgence yet though. It’s an improvement in sales but that’s only because Mikan sold so horribly on the Oricon chats. It’ll be interesting to see where RB goes from here and what style Morning Musume uses for their next single. With Kanashimi Twilight and now Resonant Blue being reasonable successes (at least compared to other recent MM singles), it wouldn’t make sense to switch things up again.
Perfume’s GAME sold 154k and is #1 for the week and I am so happy about this. When I first became a fan of Perfume, I never expected such things. I am under no illusions that they got #1 because of a relatively weak competition in albums this week. However, 6 figures is still 6 figures. Perfume’s popularity can be maintained if handled properly. Releases from the group have been spread apart, so overexposure doesn’t scare me at this point. I do know that the higher they climb, the harder they will fall.
From wiki.theppn.org:
Artist: Perfume
Album: GAME
Publisher: Tokuma Japan
Released: 2008.04.16
Sales: 154,304
To save this blog from my insane plans to post millions and millions of Nocchi photos, I am going to contain it at a different home…
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