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Greg

Hopefully that got your attention Carly. What's your opinion? According to my girlfriend all the HS chicks are crazy over Kat-tun and maybe they were a few months ago but having just returned I must say according to the Variety shows and a very commedable debut, WaT is the group to watch.

This is somewhat painful for me as I find Wents (or however his name is supposed to be spelled in English) almost more annoying than Nakashima Mika's body contortions. This may stem from my first time seeing him on TV as a participant at a celebrity Gocon where he was downright sleazy.

IMHO In a perfect world Tackey and Tsubasa's more-addictive-than-heroin new single would be number 2 in sales right now….and that Amigo song ain't too shabby either.

Carly

Hahaha ! Atsuku VENUS. Yeah, you'd BETTER believe I've got my copy of it right here with me. :XD: :XD: You hear that Takki's going to be in a movie with Jackie Chan ?

I don't really know much about WaT, though I do have 5centi lying around here somewhere. The guy-who's-not-Wentz seems pretty good though; he does both harmonica and guitar on that song, or at least he did when I saw them on Utaban and I'm pretty sure they did that live… as far as Wentz goes, he seems a bit... pushy ? He didn't let guy-who's-not-Wentz get a word in (or maybe he just didn't want to say anything...) when Nakai was drilling him about that hospital thing they did. Heard he's dating Koda Kumi, but... isn't he a little young for her ? :laugh:

But right now it is DEFINITELY KAT-TUN in Japan, any way you look at it. It's only going to get crazier with them, too -- they're debuting in March, holy smokes ! I dunno what it'll be like in a world with a KAT-TUN that's not just Koichi's dynamite, lol. But I don't blame the girls who like 'em. As Mugatu says... Jin and Kame are so hot right now. 'Specially Kame, what with Seishun Amigo and all… (and I can't stop listening to that either !)

I lose way too much money to Johnny's. Ahaha.

Greg

Re. Kat-Tun, I dunno, maybe it's because Koda Kumi is in the middle of her single marathon, WaT just came out and B'z just raped everyone with their new release, but I only saw them perform once on TV. Kinda quiet on that front.

By the freaking way, did you say WENTZ is dating MY Koda Kumi? Oh you just opened a can of potatos that should have been left well alone. It's fucking go time now.

And I agree the guy who isn't Wentz is pretty talented too. The song is catchy (even though the PV puts their sexuality deeply into question) but I just have a loathing for Wentz. What Half isn't bilingual? How lazy do you have to be when your PARENT speaks a different native language?

Carly

I think to really get how powerful KAT-TUN is going to be you'd probably have to be as neck-deep in Johnny's stuff as I am right now. The Akame duo is huge in CMs and dorama, they've got shows lined up for them per-debut, they're already on Utawara every week and they've had three concerts as a unit to boot (and I think Jin is having a solocon soon ?). The only thing they don't have is a CD and I think that's exactly the marketing JE wants for them. Whether it's going to work is anyone's guess, but… ahh well.

I have been rabid on Oricon lately to see how well T&T's Venus has been doing (mostly because this is the first single they've EVER had that's broken 200k... why'd it have to be Venus ?! Yumemo was so close :laugh:) and while I did see that WaT kind of blew the competition their release week, per-day after they've been falling pretty quick... and while B'z has been selling well I think their single atm has been out for a while, so it's not selling quite as well as it had before.

I really want Venus to blow it all away though. Not like by T&T standards it hasn't already, but... :laugh: It's frustrating sometimes, to be their fans. CD sales aren't exactly grand, JE won't give them a show, they throw dorama projects at Takki and leave Tsubasa to do what again ? =_= I hope this year isn't more of the same. It feels like no one takes them seriously as a unit because they're not really ever given the chance to BE one (unlike say Kinki Kids).

– So uhh yeah, um... Wentz is goin' down ? :laugh:

warp

couldnt you have just pmed her….

Greg

B'z has been selling well I think their single atm has been out for a while, so it's not selling quite as well as it had before.

Well, when I left it was Number 1 for the week on the CD rack at the airport. Not that that's the topic but either way given the overall feeling of the nation, (you're right in that you can't compare CD sales since they have none ((but will soon apparently)) ), the attention for 4 weeks had been directed elsewhere aside from a T&T + Kat-Tun mix-up I saw on a weekend music program. Venus was playing like crazy though.

couldnt you have just pmed her….

But then I couldn't get every J-Pop fan in on the conversation and get clever, thought-provoking comments like that. I merely mentioned Carly's name because I happen to know she's a huge fan of the genre.

Carly

warp – well, for one, it doesn't necessarily have to be limited to me; anyone who's anyone who knows the current music scene in Japan would've gone 'ahuh ?' at a WaT thread :laugh: Two, if he PMed me, half the dialogue would probably go into Japanese and I hate talking like a textbook...

omae -- I think B'z was #1 when Venus was #5, but Venus shot back up to #2 for this week (Doumoto Tsuyoshi's solo thing that I can't spell got #1). Venus is #12 for the day (which isn't too bad, but it's been #1-#3 these past few weeks) but… B'z is lower, at 15 o.o Obviously Koda Kumi's right up there since she shot more singles into the charts than an addict shoots up in his arm, but... :laugh:

Truthfully I more or less stick to Johnny's... of which you can be guaranteed I know full well what's going on with T&T, and to a lesser extent Kinki Kids and KAT-TUN. Anything else is more or less just what I see on Oricon and Mste...

I should get the Matchy-san tribute album but... all I want on it is Andalucia ni Akogarete. heh... !

aahh geez I just reminded myself. You might know this. What the fuck is up with this HARD GAY character I'm seeing everywhere on my feed ?! :laugh:

Greg

What the fuck is up with this HARD GAY character I'm seeing everywhere on my feed ?!

SHHHHHHHHHHH_!!!_

You'll spoil my new sig

Carly

Awwwww man !! Why'd you have to go and do that ?! :XD:

(he was on utawara recently… shudder)

Greg

He's debuting this year. He's covering (wait for iiiiiiit) Young Man.

Carly

Well, I knew THAT. But errrgh, it's all very disturbing to me. I think maybe if the guy (and his fatty sidekick… LOL) actually wore some freakin' pants then I could live with it a lot better... ! DISTURBED TO MAX. :laugh:

Greg

He's a hottie. Seen him without the shades? I don't even swing that way and he raises my body temp, rowr.

Carly

I don't like to see him PERIOD. :laugh: :laugh: (Oh god, he did a cover of Venus on Utawara. oh god oh god oh god)

~~venus is #7, ganbare venus-chan !~~

Greg

Gotta say he's all the rage (at the moment) and even ended up with a Popular New Word award for 2005. My girlfriend was even crazy for a pelvis-thrusting cell strap at a game center.

If he's not your cup of tea though, and I haven't met anyone that has a bad word about him. If you're not a fan the good thing is he's a phrase comedian and those won't last too long. I will admit having a place for him in my heart since his new phrase for 2006 is 'Wasshoi' and fondly reminds me of Franky's slip, but I haven't heard him try it since and I will be dumb-freaking-founded if he has this popularity by the end of the year.

Besides, Koriki's Para Para is taking off and Oriental Radio seems like the hot new item with their buyuuden gag.

Carly

Oh, I totally know he's a phase guy. Hell, we have 'em too :laugh: But he makes me laugh in that 'oh god, what the hell are you doing, you fool' kind of way, not the genuinely-amused humor. I suppose it's not entirely obvious but I'm honestly not a crude humor kind of gal… really ! :laugh:

Those others though, I haven't really heard of. It's just been HARD GAY HARD GAY all the time on my feed (I guess suzu thinks he's funny as hell, but... :laugh: )

Greg

http://notenetsentence.seesaa.net/image/koriki002.jpg

The wonder of Koriki.

http://blog15.fc2.com/a/azuichigo/file/oriental-radio.jpg

And a shitty Oriental Radio pic.

Both top searches on Yahoo for Jan. HG didn't make the cut that month for comedians.

Carly

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH KORIKI WAS THAT FATTY GUY ON UTAWARA !?

How… how did I not link this in my head ? I thought he was just HG's sidekick... :laugh:

Greg

Nah, Koriki's hardcore. He just released his first single. I personally can't tell where he's speaking Japanese and where he's attempting to speak English but the pretty girls dancing to the greatest Eurobeat song ever make up for that. If you watch London Hearts you've prolly seen him a LOT.

Carly

Never seen London Hearts, so… yeah.

I'm morbidly curious about all of this now. Eurobeat, you say ? (not that I'm a eurobeat fan, but all of that '5-4-3-1 OFFBLAST' guy's stuff was awesome.)

Greg

He did two songs and one I forget but one is a revival of Night of Fire, which for me is fantastic.