So with time a-wastin’ for the physical release of their latest album (their third) (because you could have been streaming it for weeks!), Toricago went the route of prepping us metaphysically by releasing … well, it’s a lyric video. But rather than the industry-standard I-cranked-this-out-on-my-Mac-in-a-couple-of-hours approach, this one does at least have some style to it, and the song’s lovely in its way and yeah I know that there’s going to be more postable stuff from one of the best things about last year’s class of debuts, and soon, but it’s been too long and also this is at least named for one of my favorite personal years, so:
Promo Video
For promotional video content.
I Think Hys Is Gonna Be Fun
Hey, you know what? Let’s do a new idol thing. Haven’t done too much of that lately, but I have minutes and I am motivated!
I like when you guys ping me with idol things. One, I get to vicariously experience your excitement; two, I like learning about new idols, especially now that I don’t get to spend time on the scroll like in the good ol’ days*. So thanks Andrew! We’ve been waiting on this group to make something shareable happen for a very little while, they having very slowly come into being since, well, we’ll get to that part. But January basically. And now they have a true PV!
If It Were Possible to Slowly Back Away Online, I’d Be Doing It from Pikarin
Pikarin dropped a new video yesterday! It appears that she has contributed music to a TV show, a show that she is even in(?), and we can listen to it and look at it and wow, it’s been a little while since we had new things from Shiina, it feels like, maybe we should be really stoked and just dive right in without so much as half a care, willy-nilly sacrificing our brains to what’s sure to be a completely charming, inoffensive bit of music accompanying a straightforward PV!
No.
Hakuchumu Has Landed
While you go ahead and get yourself familiar with Hakuchumu, I’m going to get things warmed up a little bit. Last week, @Eyex1st pinged me about a new group. With new stuff. And a … eccentric producer. And, naturally, an entire Pringles tube full of interesting.
Just look at this series of teasers:
訳分からない動画を作りました pic.twitter.com/Fstr7GD7kp
— あおい@白昼夢P (@aoicyan_dayo) April 30, 2018
訳分からない動画2 pic.twitter.com/Z2NiojEaa6
— あおい@白昼夢P (@aoicyan_dayo) April 30, 2018
訳分からない動画３ pic.twitter.com/3reUSDpDuy
— あおい@白昼夢P (@aoicyan_dayo) April 30, 2018
My very first thought was that this was a project up to something, whatever that might be. It was all in the service of setting up: Continue reading
Yamakatsu’s Rocking Renewal
The idol gods have seen it fit to bless us with even more good new stuff from good old units, friends. The Idol Formerly Known as Yamaguchi Kassei Gakuen — now known as Yamakatsu — dropped an MV in advance of a later-this-month release:
“Survivor” is off of Yamakatsu’s eighth(!) single, “distopia”, the title of which alone gives me a warm fuzzy feeling deep inside. GO DARK, VETERAN IDOLS!
Update: Both MVs! Continue reading
Go Get ’em Candy GO!GO!
I’ve already given away to whom I’m referring here, but let me just say that some casual what-are-they-doing Twitter cruising a little while back turned out a result that for one sweet second made me think that Hauptharmonie still lived, and that I might know true joy again.
Alas! It was Candy GO!GO! and the short-version PV for their new single!
I mean, it’s called “HONEY TRAP” ffs
This is their umpteenth single, releasing the day before this live DVD celebrating the group’s seventh(!) anniversary:
ＧＩＧＳ～７ｔｈ ＡＮＮＩＶＥＲＳＡＲＹ－ＢＯＲＤＥＲＬＥＳＳ－
ＣＡＮＤＹ ＧＯ！ＧＯ！https://t.co/90pS4qbmp4— CANDY GO!GO！公式 (@candygo2010) April 4, 2018
The 12 Stages of Listening to Broken By The Scream
First, feast your ears on this:
Broken By The Scream’s first one-man is coming up in a month. This is a trailer to get you hype. Are you hype? You should be hype. Or perhaps your experience is something like this: Continue reading
SHiX Wants You to Hear This Song So Badly, They Didn’t Even Finish Mixing It
So SHiX, who literally just came up the other day kind of randomly even though I was glad to do it, are putting all of those new members to work already. No, not just stage-idol-buppan stuff, but recording music! And then, possibly because whoever’s running SHiX has a good sense of humor, putting that music online while still in the midst of the production process:
【PV】ShiX 「VirginKiss/RoughMIX 」 https://t.co/cGGcp9ckET 全国のカラオケまねきねこより配信 PVで歌を覚えてカラオケで歌ってください！
— ShiX (@shix6idol) April 6, 2017
“RoughMIX” is right!
I’m Afraid That Ophetan Is Going to Run out of PVs Someday
It’s a new weekly occurrence for my favorite solo underground idol, Ophelia 20mg — last time out, she released a trailer for her upcoming EP/album doodad; this week, it’s back to short versions of full videos for … is she going to do one per song on the record? Holy moses.
Google says that the title of this number is “poison retrenched.” I don’t even care if that isn’t right; that’s a great title.
Actually got an update on the title! Thanks @microBun!
@homicidols poisonous euphoria is a better translation of the title.
— 新生Peter Rabbit (@microBun) March 23, 2017
Happy Thursday. The Hurtsday portion will be along in a bit.
2! 2 2& PVs! Ha Ha Ha!
If you don’t like Sesame Street, you can eat one
Hey team! It’s been a mess of a morning, but I didn’t want to let it get away without a proper Thursday Hurtsday entry; and, thanks to a friend, I’m even changing up my original plans.
One of last year’s toughest graduations was Saki from Guso Drop. It was all a positive career move over all, and has so far led to some fairly wild stuff from the new blood among the Heaviest Idol in the World, plus good developments for Saki in her solo guise as 2&.
TY Pukovnik Krv!
Fittingly, it’s two videos in one!
