Let this be a lesson to you: I am dumb and other people are smart. The answer to the question posed in the title is “No! Gah, learn Japanese!” Scroll down to the comments for actual real true things.
“Say, what is Zekkyou up to these days?” I asked nobody in particular while scrolling through Twitter to avoid listening to my old boss make the same spiel I’ve heard her make roughly 17,000 times. A few clicks later …
石山散歩終わって柏へ散歩開始！今日はめちゃくちゃ気合い入ってて良い節目のLIVEが出来たなぁって思います。新曲は1年以上温めてきた「絶対零度ファンク」(from ねじ式P)でした！大好きな曲。やっと歌えた！
※映像は関係ありません← pic.twitter.com/xBHBhSkG8T— 絶叫する60度 (@zekkyo60) September 10, 2016
The quality isn’t great, but you can hear that “Absolute Funk” is probably as good a time as the rest of Screaming Sixties’ work to date. And it sounds like they’re actually working with even more new material while doing what they always do — touring relentlessly:
絶叫する60度は今日のライヴが500本目のライヴになります。ここまでやってこれたのは全国各地のライヴで汗を流してくれる仲間がいるからです。やりたいだけでライヴは出来ません。待っていてくれるあなたがいて初めて僕らはステージに立てる。感謝しかない。というわけで今日新曲やります！
— 絶叫する60度 (@zekkyo60) September 10, 2016
Frankly, the world needs more straight-up punk idols. What they did for their last single was a pretty good move, and it can genuinely get better.
Uh, that’s Zekkyou Judgement, a Vocaloid Nejishiki produced song they’ve been doing live for at least a year.
Hamada’s written at the bottom of his tweet “The video has nothing to do with this news.”
Here’s the original Zekkyou Judgement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw-zDy57Hqc
Here’s Zekkyou doing Judgement 15 months ago: https://youtu.be/96HosEFbhnI?t=21m47s
And here’s the new song Zettai Reido Funk (Absolute Zero Funk) Vocaloid Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD06P61K6gM
Well thank goodness for you, sir.
It was originally a vocaloid song?? That I did not know… dunno whether to check out the vocaloid version of the new one then, or just wait to hear Zekkyou do it.
Nearly all their Nejishiki songs were Vocaloid first. Daisanji Bocchi Sensou was as well.
Oh shit… *goes to youtube to check it out*. I did not know that. It’s kinda weird discovering this. They sound just the same, lol.
This is why they had those weird Vocaloid x Band x Anime x Idol shirts and towels made.