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Nacherry |
My Dream Girls |
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 • This is great! I’ll have to find out who composed it, because it sounds just like something from the Love Live! series. It’s actually from some other TV show.
• The composer is Motokiyo. He was also an arranger for Queen Of The Night by Kanoe Rana, but as for the Love Live! tunes, he did do Second Sparkle by Liella!, although it sounded more like some other song.
• Natsumi Murakami & Chiemi Tanaka are actually related to the Love Live! series. (Natsumi Murakami is from DiverDiva & Chiemi Tanaka is from QU4RTZ.) |
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Himawari Purinsesu
(向日葵プリンセス) |
Shalala |
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This is pleasant too. Maybe a bit mild. |
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i Ris |
White Lyrical Kingdom |
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The song of this supposedly came out in November, 2023, but the music video only came out today. (16th of January, 2024.) So this feels like a late, Christmas style tune, especially with all the northern hemisphere snow action. But I guess it could be good for when we get snow here too.  I’d say this is one of the group’s better tunes. |
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Kinki Kids |
Schrödinger |
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I think I like this one. The singing’s a bit flat in places, like the beginning, but it’s not too bad. |
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Momo Asakura
(麻倉もも) |
Sweet Essence |
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This came out on the 1st of February, or close to that. A pretty cheery one again, as you can expect from Momo, but the composition of the song feels a little bit muddled. After a few more watches though, I can get what they were doing. Kind of. |
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Tube & Gackt |
Instead Of Sayonara
(サヨナラのかわりに / Sayonara No Kawari Ni) |
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(Sayonara is good bye, of course.)
This was totally different from how I imagined. I’m not keen on the break at 2:58, nor in other songs that do this, but you could probably make your own edit & trim that bit out.  Other than that, this one sounds rather good, I must say. |
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Exile B Happy |
Morning Sun |
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I might want to watch this a bit more, so this is a bit tentative being listed here. But I think it’s pretty cheery and the bit at 3:17 where they do one person after the next is really neat.
Is that a real shopping complex in this? Maybe they got in there at night time. Although some of the stores seem to be open. I dunno.
This group must be related to that Exile Tribe dealie, which seems to have a dozen spin off sub-groups. A lot of their other songs aren’t really my thing, but this one seems quite a bit different. |
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Ayumi Hamasaki
(浜崎あゆみ) |
Bye-Bye |
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The 1st thing that sprang to mind was NSYNC. Was this going to be like a knock-off of their old Bye Bye Bye song from 24 years ago? Well, it isn’t really like it, but it does feel like it could’ve been from that time. Anyway, I think I like it enough to bung on here. |
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ClariS |
Andante
(アンダンテ) |
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This is a great one, and the ending is good too. I always like a proper ending, unlike some songs where it sounds like somebody tripped over the cord to the recording equipment and pulled out the plug. |
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The Bawdies |
Sugar Puff |
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Ah — there’s a video for this now. Holey moley! It’s a bit quirky and almost irrelevant to say the least, after 1st hearing the song at the start of the month. Mmm — I can’t say I’m too enthusiastic for it, but the song sounds great. |
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Tomoo |
Present |
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This one came out in February, but it took me a while to like it enough to stick on here. |
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