Happy weekend, ya dorks! I do hope that Team forgives me just snatching up this Weekender intro without an ounce of grace or forewarning. It’s been too long! Good lord. I honestly just wanted to flex in the space a little bit. Stretch my legs. Have a cold one while the week of astonishingly mundane idol weirdness unspooled in front of us, and nod approvingly.
It was good, honestly, the first full week back in the saddle. I frankly expected to do a lot more but made a botch of my own personal time management (surprise!). But do I have an exhaustingly large list of things that I’ll partly return to to post about but mostly consign to Weekender throwaways or, worse, the memory hole? Absolutely! That’s how we roll around here. I will say this — with a new attitude and approach, I did not expect that I’d see so much idoling and want to share it. Plus, you know, pandemic stuff.
So what are you kids up to this weekend? Live streams? Protests? Whatever it is, I hope you stay safe and healthy. Americans have predictably completely screwed up this pandemic, but Fiancee is the kind of person who won’t tolerate not doing things for very long, so I look forward to being masked and gloved in the typical local summertime heat. I will say, though, that the upshot of states basically forcing business to re-open has been the complete relaxation of laws against drinking in public!
That’s Not a Good Thing
Oh god. Oh god yes.
🍕情報解禁🍕
ついにマーブルちゃんとのスプリットの情報が解禁だよ!数量限定で特典の豪華カラーZINEがつくから早めにGETしよう⚡︎⚡︎⚡︎7/2(木)の「南波一海のアイドル三十六房」の放送開始から、ネムレスのwebショプで買えるようになるよ #三十六房 #タワレコTVhttps://t.co/KFkuYJ8md6 pic.twitter.com/SCCACXSS3V— うてなゆき (@ute_nyan_) June 25, 2020
Yeah, new EMPIRE record!
【EP発売決定!!】
2020.08.05 drop.
“SUPER COOL EP”
初回生産限定盤には、未公開ライブ映像収録!!!!!!https://t.co/IbNiDi2apA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“This is EMPiRE SOUNDS”
07.10 00:00 Streaming&DL
07.11 20:00 Music Video on YouTube#超ひんやりEMPiRE pic.twitter.com/tJydXTSB6S— EMPiRE OFFiCiAL (@EMPiREIDOL) June 24, 2020
Keeping it in the family, I must say that the latest BiS reboot at least pretends well to be as punk rock as the original:
Also I enjoyed this WAgg MV so much that I wanted to say that out loud even though this is now two weeks late and about as newsworthy as … well, a WAgg MV:
One of these days, I’ll write a proper thing about melancholiaah:
RELEASE / “夕方side” MV / VIEW FULL: https://t.co/q7fwLbt6Qi
produced by: @BitchKamikaze
lyrics by : melancholiaah!
translations by: @ElianDono pic.twitter.com/L0ifuRQuP2— melancholiaah!@LAST PARADISE 07.24.2020 RELEASE (@melancholiaah) June 24, 2020
Ikigusare have started their nightmare campaign for MissID 2021 in earnest.
Tokyo Rockets, who went from cool to meh with nary a blink, are following their big sisters into that good night:
CF受付終了いたしました!
沢山のご参加、本当にありがとうございます🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️https://t.co/rMuzj1fpAn当日は下記で無料生配信です📹https://t.co/J9lQnXwhlP
リターンは勿論、パフォーマンスでもお返しいたしますので是非ご視聴ください!#トキロケ#TokyoRockets pic.twitter.com/g6IrNXRofA— Tokyo Rockets (@Tokyo_Rockets) June 23, 2020
Some people like Devil ANTHEM.
I’d love the backstory behind why Aphrodite is again being rebooted:
明日は
Aphrodite復活ライブ
「Aphroditeライブ〜Renaissance et résurrection〜再生と復活」
目黒鹿鳴館です!全ての人に感謝いたします
私たちは美しい、私たちは命ずる。
私たちへの愛にかけて
あなたが<美>しか愛さぬことを…。
私たちこそが美と愛の女神
Aphrodite(アフロディーテ)なのだから pic.twitter.com/aBeYpMiVxU— Aphrodite(公式) (@aphrodite_idol) June 24, 2020
Per Chris, a new supergroup virtually arises, and of course it involves MAINA:
「日本にエールを‼️」#CheerSongProject を立ち上げ🎊
第一弾となる1st unitに参加したのは…✨@ssfwmaina @tws_ruka @matsushitareona @mea_herosyn @nijimasu_aeri @nanako_miura
6/24よりiTunesにて楽曲配信開始
MV FULL VER.は後日解禁多くの人にこの応援歌が届きますように… pic.twitter.com/GS2py2v40X
— Cheer song project (@Cheersongpro) June 23, 2020
I prefer this kind of work of hers anyway:
こんな夜にはこの曲を、、、#椎名林檎 #丸の内サデスティック pic.twitter.com/l2o5X99Qsv
— MAINA (マイナ) 大阪☆春夏秋冬🪐 (@ssfwmaina) March 1, 2020
We’ll always have Ophelia 20mg and that’s a-okay:
おはもーにんっ
今日もいいことありますように◎ pic.twitter.com/Gh2gOKGMyp— おふぇたん🍷🐸【💿183】 (@ophelia20mg) June 22, 2020
This is a Haru appreciation moment:
The carnations in my room were dying and I took photos of me with them by myself
部屋のカーネーションがが枯れかけていたので一緒に写真を撮りました pic.twitter.com/kBsvNN6d5J
— 春 ねむり HARU NEMURI (@haru_nemuri) June 24, 2020
This group that is apparently called HAKOBUNE is debuting and did the member-reveal thing:
拡散お願いします‼️
メンバーには内緒でスタート🤫こちらのツイートを
50RT
アー写公開&メンバービジュアル公開75RT
持ち曲3曲ちょい出し100RT
RTとフォローした方3名に抽選で
特典券5枚プレゼント締め切り6/30まで。 pic.twitter.com/1I4s5lL97T
— HAKOBUNE-箱舟- (@hakobune_idol) June 22, 2020
EIMIE out here doing the Unplugged thing all the way down to the sway:
たまには生きている実感が無いと
僕は怖くて苦しさに負けてもう笑えないよ今日も生きていく✊ pic.twitter.com/NUtlmubkbd
— EIMIE超オフィシャル💣 (@EIMIE_jp) June 22, 2020
Did I know that Mugen no Scenario is a thing? Or is Dream Scenario the preferred nomenclature? Anyway:
What a blessing:
おはぴこ #YuraSmile 🌞⭐️🌈
Have a great rest of the day😌🙏 pic.twitter.com/Xd7gUXqiKW— ゆらぴこ👯♀️爆裂女子 (@yura_burstgirl) June 22, 2020
FAREWELL, MY L.u.v did a whole livestream from a thrift shop. Come for the bargains. Stay for the funk.
Tenka no Chanyuki is an honest-to-god artist.
5秒後に罪を犯す自分を止めに行ったら無限ループになった pic.twitter.com/pFS5gM26PG
— 天下のちゃんゆき@ばなもん (@yuki_banamon) June 26, 2020
After last week’s shocking cliffhanger, we’ve all been dying to see the thrilling conclusion to ZOMBIE POWDER Potato Dig.
Even ex-idols must at all times be self-aware:
私です。 pic.twitter.com/MpY2KLCcSO
— ヨネコ(夏) (@naniyaraYONEKO) June 27, 2020
Let’s Skankin indeed:
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悩殺♥アフタービート
■□■□■□■□■□■『閉園後の遊園地に迷い込んだら突然SKAの音楽と共にアトラクションが動きだした。』をコンセプトに活動するスカアイドル
💃7月23日 Let’s Skankin!!🕴 pic.twitter.com/vg8vvicJmb
— SKA iDOL-PROJECT (@skaidolproject) June 22, 2020