BiS has a brand new PV for the song Primal. , and honestly I don`t even know how to begin to describe this to you. I will try my best to describe it as best as possible.
The PV starts out with a family and a baby feeding from mom .Then we have this graphic close up of a bloody wound [which is fake as you will see but nicely done] and this drifts off into camera shots of deep down the members throats ,various member shots ,including bruised faces , smoking ,vomiting ,baby flash backs and IR [inferred camera] shots and ends with momma and baby taking a photo.
I am not ready to say yet if I like or dislike the video, because honestly I don`t know yet . It`s different and I accept BiS and all their strangeness and this is by far the most unidol like idol video out today .And you know what, that`s just the way they want it and what makes this group so unique an unidol like, that frankly I can`t get enough of them as you never know what they will do next.
Because I do not know if all readers will be able to view this, I have just posted the link to it from BiS YouTube and not an embed version.
Update
Youtube thinks all of you going to the link to the video at BiS channel instead of watching the embed here is a sam bot or something ,It`s causing trouble.
When does little sister become the little dog barking at the heels of the big dog on the porch? When you sale 500,000 singles in a week, which is what SKE48 has done.
At Makuhari Messe in Chiba in front of 10,000 fans the group informed their supporters of this historic moment in their young history. The group next target is to get an invite to Kouhaku Uta Gassen.
With this group still young in years, so we should settle in for more highs from this group.
Congratulations SKE48, you’re no longer the little sisters of AKB48, but a growing force in the genre.
Now the time for playing nice is over with, so to speak. Lol
When I wrote about BABY METAL, I bet that you thought that you saw everything right. Well if you have read this site long enough, then you know we are just beginning to scratch the surface of girl groups,idols and heavy metal. This band is not idols ,no they are princesses of Lolita metal.
MIXX
MIXX is a Gothic Lolita Heavy Metal Band, not only do these ladies look cool and hot at the same time, they just rock. This is not cute idols playing metal parity princesses, this is a full on girls playing assault of the metal and hard rock taste buds band.
Vocalist ASUKA went to High School in Canada and can speak fluent English, along with Russian and Spanish .She was given a spot in the 2009 Miss Universe Japan but decided to become a metal head.
Guitarist SAKI started to learn her guitarist skills in the 8th grade and like all of us who have become heavy metal musicians, she got the bug when she saw a heavy metal band on TV and it consumed her life. She is the group’s chief songwriter and plays a big part in the production of the group’s releases. Saki is also well versed in Chinese
Drummer HIKONE JACKSON or JACKSON as she is normally called is the baby member in age, joining the band while still in high school .A speaker of Korean; JACKSON is the heartbeat of the band and provides the band their charismatic touches and powerful driving force to fuel their songs.
Miss GASMASKO is the bands support bass player, and wears a gas mask to keep their identity a secret.
MIXX is a heavy metal garage band success story .Two members create a friendship at a heavy metal concert ,decide to start a band ,bring in a drummer and within four months start releasing singles and a year later have set their eyes to embrace the world.
Heavy Metal is my main work genre away from this blog, so for me MIXX, is a goldmine of love, with the Lolita looks and high spirited music. It`s a win-win if you can accept a Lolita themed power metal act,complete with a bass player in a gas mask and a drummer who drives around on a toy car .
It may not be what "purists" define as "true Metal" and that maybe true as they are bit more hard rock at times ,it`s all good in the end.
If your drummer rides into the PV on a toy car and your support Bass player is wearing a gas mask, you deserve to be on this site ,purists be ####
I mentioned that the singer is fluent in English .The guitar intro is so cool
Footnote-
For everyone who has asked in mail or otherwise about the relationship between MIXX and BABYMETAL, the term Lolita in the post title.
There is no relationship between them outside of costumes . The title of the post was selected by the members of MIXX. That was what they wanted to be referred to at the time of the post was first made.
Girls Rock Revolution #1
Forgive the long lead in ,but it is a needed onetime thing
This is something that I had originally planned to do on PIH sister rock site ,however time has not allowed me to develop the site yet and as we from time to time have covered rock topics on PIH an in my push to give this site more diversity ,I am putting this out on PIH.
Girls Rock Revolution is the alternative to the fresh faces idol topic. Girls Rock Revolution is a look at the women of Japanese rock, many will be underground, many will underground but have some international travels under their belt and others will be majors.
To qualify for Girls Rock Revolution the band has to fall under the following categories
1.I like them and just want to write about them
2.They have all female members
3.They are a male band with a female singer
4. They are soloists who play rock music, and her backing band can be any combination. [I.E. The band is named after her]
5.They can be an Idol based Bandol [Idol Band] or have nothing to do with idols at all.
6.There is no experience limit to these bands, they can be longtime groups or fresh out of the studio or garage.
In Girls Rock Revolution, there is a chance that you may not have heard of any of these bands that I will cover, but that is ok, if you are of an open mind and willing to give the bands a chance, you just may find something you like.
Pop Chocolat
Is an all-girl alternative band originally from Kyoto, who has been active since 2000 and has experience touring the United States and other nations. They are a respected band yet in some ways enjoy life in the shadows .There is a lot of freedom in the shadows, so one should not view that as being a bad thing.
It was not until 2005 before they released their debut album "NIJIIRO FALSETTO”, the success of the album pushed the band to move to Tokyo, in 2007 they lost their original vocalist AIKA. However the band would not let this do them in and the band would continue on and add the final part of the puzzle SHIHO in 2010 to be their Keyboardist.
Currently the band is made up of following members Guitarist/songwriter MIHO, Drummer/songwriter NATSUKO, Keyboardist SHIHO and Bassist MICHIKO. All members provide vocals for their songs
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Their current album “Trip” was produced by Sawao Yamanaka vocalist/ guitarist from the rock band The Pillows.
Pop Chocolat songs tend to be hit or miss with me, sometimes they click with me instantly, and sometimes I have to give them a second or third listen. 80% of their music catalog clicks with me on first listen, the other 20% I tend to wonder how much did they drink when writing the music ,lol, but after another spin of the song it starts to fall in place. Pop Chocolat is a band that is an acquired taste and the greatness of this band may not hit you at first listen.
Is an all-girls band that’s been around the Tokyo scene for a number of years and are self-described as “Chicks Rock” and is a fixture in the Independent scene. SUPER BABY FACE is made up of the following members.
Vocal: WAKA
Guitar: MEGURI
Bass: BETTY
Drums: AYA
SUPER BABY FACE was a band that clicked with me ,the first time that I was introduced to them and I really can`t find a bad thing about them ,except they may not get the recognition that they may deserve.
Because this post has a lot in it to read I am breaking the opening edition into genre`s .In the first post I gave you a more alternative peak, next we hit the WOMEN OF HEAVY METAL/ HARD ROCK .
IchidAIDORU is an idea created from the minds of Pure Idol Heart and our partner site Idolyrics. There is a great backstory on idolyrics explaining the birth of this idea, so I don`t want to take away a lot from what she has done to set this up, so I will be brief.
For some time I have had discussions with Meika of Idolyrics about joining Pure Idol Heart as a writer ,because in my private life both myself and one of my daughters is involved in music and our schedules for the coming year will see us both traveling a lot ,so I wanted someone to help out with Pure Idol Heart.
I also wanted a female view on the genre for Pure Idol Heart, from someone who wasn`t in the music industry, but appreciated idol genre and music just the same. I wanted a voice of the fans for the fans so to speak.
From this has become IchidAIDORU.
In the first volume of IchidAIDORU, Meika presents the idol group Himekyun Fruit Can, if you do not know who this group is; I have left a preview video to wet your taste buds for what Meika has to offer.
Now here is how you the readers of Pure Idol Heart can help , Pure Idol Heart ,Idolyrics and IchidAIDORU ,please follow these links to Meika`s site and volume one of IchidAIDORU. Leave her a few kind words of encouragement as she shifts from lyric translations to idol columnist and on my site, let me know if you like to see Meika join Pure Idol Heart in some type of way.
Pure Idol Heart and Idolyrics would like to welcome you to IchidAIDORU; we hope that you will like what is presented as time goes on.
Himekyun Fruit Can Video Tease
For the rest of Himekyun Fruit Can and IchidAIDORU #1 ,please visit our partner site
It`s very difficult to walk through the streets of Tokyo and not see something endorsed by AKB48. It`s difficult to turn on your television and not see a product ad by AKB48 members, or see them on a variety show, theirs or a guest. It`s difficult to turn on your television and not see a member in a drama or movie. It`s common to look at the various music charts and see AKB48 setting record after record ,this chart topping success ,has now started to extend to world music charts [largely due to domestic sales] . Yet none of these things created or displayed the force to create noise in the music industry as one harmless promotion.
Recently AKB48 entered into a deal with the postal service to create member stamps, something that famous or historic figures have done in every country of the world. When it came time for the stamps to be released, the postal service decided to set it up so people can order it online.
Simple enough right, when time came for the promotion to start, the demand for stamps was so great that it crashed the postal service web site.
Fans reacted with concern that they would not be able to get the stamps as a result of the interruption, that the postal service urged anyone who wanted to stamps to get them at their local office and that the stamps are print on order, so there is no worry of not getting the stamps.
When you reach the point that large numbers of supporters in one nation, worry over what is little more than a sticker that you can collect or put on an envelope, you have left the point of just being a group and entered the point of being a powerful franchise. It`s power in a kind of, this is a kind of wow, this is cool type of moment. Will it go down in history as one of those iconic moments in history? no ,it`s just one of those wow this is cool or interesting moments, that we have come to expect from AKB48 ,just as we came to expect when Morning Musume shook the foundations of the genre with Love Machine.
Mariko gets her chance at the center as the new AKB48 single PV “Ue Kara Mariko” was released earlier today. In the PV the members put on their best cosplay outfits and have a janken tournament .There are various close-up shots and Mariko centered dance segment.
I wouldn`t call this an epic AKB PV, it is however a solid song and video, with enough close-up shots that if you are a fan of one of the 16 Senbatsu members to satisfy your desires.
[Sorry that I could not get this up earlier ,I had things to tend to]
Perfume brings together the most powerful idol agencies and groups together on one show and the chaos level is high as the groups get out of control. Whatever your idol unit is, this is a must watch show for all idol fans.
For Musume fans, from the looks of things the future faces of the group are going to be Ayumi, Riho, and KY
AKB48 is branching out once again after creating a successful music franchise, store franchise, video game franchise; apartments, café ,has now entered the internet provider service.
On November 1 a new internet service entered the nation called “AKB Official Net”
For a monthly fee of 1,480 yen, you will get with service an official AKB48 email address, exclusive rights to AKB48 theater tickets, free registration to the AKB48 fan club and a members exclusive special photo program called “AKBaby”.
This program will allow you to take your picture and a member of AKB48 merge them and create you and your oshiman`s baby photo.
Spokesman for the service Oshima Yuko was on hand for the press conference held a baby with a mask of a merged photo of her and Prime Minister Noda on his face. Oshima jokingly said “I’ve skipped over the marriage press conference, and went straight to the birth announcement. The order is reversed, but I had a healthy baby!”
Oshima went on to show the official CM for the program, showing her scene where she asks the viewer, “Will you make a baby with me?”
Oshima went on to add “I’ve never thought I’d say that in my life, so I can’t believe I actually said that.”
Prime Minister Noda sent a letter saying the following “I’m glad the baby looks like Oshima-san. In reality, I can’t make a baby, but I will do my best to reverse the declining birth rates in Japan. “
Oshima ended her remarks by saying “Surely, this could be a great contribution to society. It’s an amazing thing.”
QunQun is set up like AKB48, with a main unit, secondary unit and
trainees. But this were the similarities end, this is not an AKB48
clone, it`s just an idol group that uses a formation system. One of many
After all, it is not a system that AKB48 invented they just made it
Popular.
There is very little performance video of this unit as it is fresh
out of the box brand new.
So brand new, that if it was a new car, it still have that new car
smell. However. Here is a special look at this unit with their
Internet program
They are very active on their streaming channel, almost everyday
they have broadcast
Internet Show
Live @ QunQun [their version of Ustream] http://qunqun.xtre.am/
[This has several segments ,when one ends
there is a pause while they set up the next location . Imagine
running around H!P Compound visiting everybody.
LINQ
This 28-member unit includes two members named Alice and Angela
Akiyama, yes as your thinking, they are related and 1/2 Japanese and
they have their version of Yaguchi Mari [watch video #2 for that
joke] . In addition, just like QunQun they still have that new car
smell having made their debut on April 17.
LinQ is an alternate spelling of their name “Love in Kyushu” .LinQ
[pronounced Link] is a Fukuoka regional idol dedicated to promoting
themselves in Fukuoka and Kyushu Island while uplifting the hearts
and, the spirits of everyone in Kyushu.
LinQ was created on February 27 in Fukuoka through an audition that
was attended by 1,162 young idol hopefuls aged 12-24. That number by
the way is on the high side for Independents, there are units that
have been created with as few as 19 auditioning for 10 positions.
LinQ managed to select their final roster from this audition and
made their debut on April 17. In June, they released their debut
single.
Idoling!!!,℃-ute, 9nine, SUPER☆GiRLS, AeLL, Live Event
Idol groups Idoling!!!, ℃-ute, 9nine, SUPER☆GiRLS, AeLL are coming together to perform on the same stage for two nights only as part of a fashion event called “Japan Girls Meeting 2011”. As part of the event, the groups will perform on stage in individual mini lives. The live event will from May 21 to 22 at the Tokyo EPSON Shinagawa Aqua Stadium.
AeLL will be featured in a separate post, so please look forward to it.
The girls of PASSPO☆ have taken their first steps in joining the power players in the female idol genre wars, with their major debut release "Shoujo Hikou".
I am going to be very honest and say right now, there is not one thing that I do not like about this song or PV. I really enjoy this track and have hit replay a number of times. Even if you find the PV simple the single more then makes up for it ,with it`s modern rock ,upbeat ,summertime goodness .
The PV concept is simple as the group is wearing their flight attendant uniforms and member designed costumes while dancing with their rolling bags, and random cute scenes on board the plane.
Near the end, it also has Anna trying her best and failing to inflate a life vest .The PV ends with a shot of "their" plane flying to their next town.
The energetic young ladies of PASSPO☆ are set to release their major debut single “Shoujo Hikou“, on May 4 . In this preview the girls show off their traditional flight-attendant uniforms and their member designed costumes. Staying true to their theme, the girls perform carrying luggage and performing in various airline related situations.
Yesterday, I showed a short preview for Happiness upcoming single, “Friends“, today, I have the full version of the PV!
“Friends“, picks up from the point of their debut single , with strong dance performances that are not often seen from the more cutesy JPop releases that come from teen groups.
With stylish shots and group choreography, Happiness is developing into a very strong group under the guidance of Exile and looks set to set themselves apart from other groups in the years to come.
International Wota has added a number of new items to the auction list, from a number of agencies and groups.
Please help support the recovery, over 11,000 citizens will never again enjoy the sound of music and many thousands more are yet to be found. Hundreds of thousands have lost everything they own, not to mention several family members.
AKB is wasting no time and has further continued to extend their already huge omnipresence. AKB48 21st single has been set to release on May 25th 2011, title is not confirmed yet. Additionally, their 22nd single will have a Senbatsu election coming soon. For the benefit of those who do not know, it is an voting process in which AKB fans may elect which of the girls under the AKB group to participate in the new single. A great way for fans to be involved in the single production process.
In accordance to their participation of the northeast earthquake support, a portion of the proceeds from the singles sales will go to charity.
And lastly, after previous postponings, AKB48's latest album "Koko ni ita koto" have been further pushed to release on 8th June. Similarly, a portion of the album sales will also go to charity.
A new movie video clip has been made public on Youtube by SKE48. It was a video clip for the song "Ai no Kazu" performed by the group's Team K II, which is a B-side track to the single released earlier this month "Banzai Venus". Originally, "Ai no Kazu" has no PV created for it. But a video clip was made now, in hopes of the song becoming a moral support (no matter how small it maybe) to those facing difficult times due to the earthquake in northeast Japan, recently.
It was not a high cost production of any sort, just a simple video of SKE48 girls singing on their theatre stage with song lyrics running at the bottom. All for creating a new media made available for circulation.
SKE48 will reopen their theatres on the 31st of March, where on that same day Team S will perform and all proceeds from that performance will go straight to charity.
When ever possible I like to add programs in subbed format for anyone who struggles to follow along with the raw versions. One of my goals is someday to have a PIH sub team in place.
If your not able to follow along with the raw version, then you don`t want to miss the subbed version.
As I mentioned not long ago if the fan made video would be close to the official video for Morning Musume`s 45th single? The answer is yes but the fan made PV is missing 20 seconds.
“Maji Desu ka SUKA! “Is a fun PV that is different from recent Morning Musume videos that features many clips by the 9th gen.
AKB48 Donates Again 600 Million Yen + 218 Location CM Campaign.
Fresh off the heels of their very generous 500 million yen donation to the Japanese Red Cross, AKB48 has made a second donation, this time for 600 million yen (approximately $7.37 million USD) to the Japanese Red Cross.
AKB48 announced this wonderful gift at a press conference at the Third Okinawa International University Film Festival on the 26th. They also announced the group would be the promotion campaign group for the upcoming election for Tokyo’s new governor. AKB48 will run ads at 218 locations across Tokyo and as part of the campaign, their single “Heavy Rotation”; will be shown once every six minutes starting April 1 at the 218 locations.
