Showing posts with label song. Show all posts
Showing posts with label song. Show all posts

Sunday, June 22, 2014

GACKT has a ghost writer!? Wife of backing band member exposes that her husband wrote songs for GACKT for JPY 500,000 each



1: れいおφ ★@\(^o^)/:2014/06/18(水) 01:09:54.95 ID:???0.net
Tax evasion, women issues... GACKT has never been short of scandals. Another will be added to the list, as the current issue of FLASH reports that the wife of his backing band member YOU has exposed that her husband was GACKT's ghost writer.

According to the publication, YOU was GACKT's classmate in college and is his best friend. This was apparently common knowledge among the fans. But it's also said that YOU is currently in the process of getting a divorce from his wife of 10 years.

According to the wife, YOU has been composing the majority of GACKT's songs ever since he went solo. GACKT would write the lyrics at times, or would just let YOU do everything on his own, but all credits go to GACKT.

And upon completion of the tune, YOU would charge GACKT's management office which is handled by his sister, and would get paid approximately \500,000 per song. The article in FLASH has also published the copy of a deposit slip and details of the bank book in its article.

"I don't think GACKT will be able to talk his way out of this one anymore. Due to all of the allegations thrown his way, his scope of activities is now only limited to concerts and the theatrical plays that he produces, as it's gotten quite difficult for him to even make a TV appearance. Even if they do decide to make a sequel of Akumu-chan which was recently adapted for the silver screen, I don't think that he'll be receiving the offer to do it anymore." - (TV staff)

It doesn't seem like GACKT's case will escalate to similar proportions with the recent ghost writer scandal of composer Mamoru Samuragochi, but further speculations continue to come up from this, as YOU's wife has also revealed some private matters about GACKT. YOU and the missus lived together with GACKT in his condo unit and she reveals, "I've seen the actress with whom he was rumored in the tabloids. She was living together with GACKT at one point.".

This actress is assumed to be Yumiko Shaku, who coincidentally updated her blog on the 12th, the day of her birthday, and denied any romantic relationship with GACKT (without mentioning his name). People will be on the lookout as to how things will develop here as well. 


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Sunday, May 25, 2014

"Most memorable anime theme song" ranking




1: れいおφ ★@\(^o^)/:2014/05/19(月) 17:21:47.54 ID:???0.net
From Charapedia, 10,000 votes

10. Gintama / Donten (DOES)



9. Angel Beats / My Soul, Your Beats! (Lia)




8. Uta no Prince sama♪ Maji LOVE 1000% / Maji LOVE 1000% (ST☆RISH)





7. AIR / Tori no uta (Lia)





6. Maho Shojo Madoka Magica / Connect (ClariS)




(5 up after the jump)

Friday, May 2, 2014

"Anisong" singers going on hiatus one after another..."CDs sell more when seiyuus sing the theme song"



1: れいおφ ★@\(^o^)/:2014/04/28(月) 13:38:06.99 ID:???0.net
A certain anisong singer surprised many when she tweeted a month ago: "April 1, 2014. I am now a freelancer". This was the singer HIMEKA. She arrived in Japan back in 2008 from Canada. She participated in the 2nd Japan Anisong Grandprix which was held in the same year and took home 1st place. She then made her major debut with Sony Music Entertainment.

Right after making her debut, she sang the theme songs to Valkyria Chronicles and Tegamimachi which instantly gained her fame, but her anisong tie-ups came to a halt in 2010. She released an album in 2011 and then switched over to 5pb.  
She handled a number of theme songs for games, but her contract was not renewed come April 1 of 2014. Because of this, she has lost her eligibility to stay in Japan, and will need to leave the country on May 2 unless she finds a new label.

Right around the time of this was the news of the cancellation of this year's 8th Anisong Grandprix. This competition started back in 2007 and has been a yearly event, with preliminaries being held all over Japan until the finals take place in Tokyo. The winner of the grandprix got to debut professionally as an anisong singer. This competition was one of the biggest events that symbolized the anisong boom that took place years ago.

This event has procured a number of anisong singers such as Shuhei Kita and Sayaka Sasaki and has been a popular entry point for aspiring singers to achieve their dreams. However, controversy struck the event as a lot of viewers and industry members doubted how Natsumi Okamoto, whose singing ability was widely criticized, was able to win the event. This even prompted the competition chairperson Ichiro Mizuki to post criticisms about the judges on Twitter. There have been no further comments or explanations made regarding the cancellation of this year's event, which has led to further speculations.

(Continued after the jump)


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Sunday, April 6, 2014

So which do you guys prefer, L'Arc~en~Ciel or GLAY?


1: 以下、名無しにかわりましてVIPがお送りします 2013/03/31(日) 11:15:52.31 ID:oRe2koIN0
俺はGLAY
hydeのカマ声苦手だし
I prefer GLAY.
I can't really stand hyde's gay voice.


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Sunday, March 23, 2014

hitomi collaborates with MAX for her new song "Barayume"



1: 禿の月φ ★ 2014/03/18 
hitomi (38), who is celebrating her 20th year in the industry, has collaborated with dance/vocal group MAX for the video of her new song "Barayume". This was all made possible thanks to the suggestion of producer Osamu Suzuki (41). hitomi made her debut in 1995 when she was 19 with "CANDY GIRL", and this new song is supposed to be the answer to that debut single. hitomi was also the one who composed the lyrics to "Barayume".

Osamu Suzuki's concept of the video is "to educate these herbivorous men on how cool women around their 40s can be", which led to hitomi joining forces with MAX to form a girl band in the MV. MAX members LINA (37) man the drums, NANA (37) is on the keyboard, while MINA (36) is on the percussion. There are also scenes in the video where the women are eating sukiyaki, implying that they are "carnivores".

hitomi comments: "I belong to the same generation as MAX. I'm happy that I have been able to collaborate with them in my 30s.". LINA comments: "We debuted at the same time, and we're from the same generation so the atmosphere has been good, and we're very much in sync with one another".


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Monday, March 17, 2014

Kumi Koda kicks off her nationwide tour in Osaka



1: 禿の月φ ★:2014/03/13(木) 18:36:41.53 ID:???
Singer Kumi Koda (31) held the first leg of her nationwide tour (24 cities, 50 shows, expected total attendance of 130,000) at the Osaka Festival Hall on the 12th. She sang "SHOW ME YOUR HOLLA", "Cutie Honey", and others, for a total of 30 songs.

She has been described as "ero-kakkoii" (lit. erotic-cool) and showed off her legs to the the audience. Her son (1) with BACK-ON guitarist KENJI03 (29) was also seen at the venue. Koda comments: "I want people to go, 'You're such a cool mom!', when they see my performances". She wore 8 costumes for the night in front of the 2,700 in attendance, and truly was "mama-kakkoii".

"I'm a happy mother. I even take him out to the park and to Toys R' Us. I also do household chores. I actually just hung clothes to dry earlier today". She also announced that she will be having a concert in Taipei, Taiwan and said, "Because my husband is half-Taiwanese. Thank you Ken-chan." 



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Saturday, March 15, 2014

Top 20 Graduation Songs






1: 禿の月φ ★:2014/03/13(木) 19:01:00.40 ID:???0
From Music magazine CD & DL Data

19. Tsubasa wo kudasai (Akai Tori)
19. Michi (EXILE)
18. Omoide ga ippai (H2O)
17. Sotsugyou -GRADUATION- (Momoko Kikuchi)
16. Koukou Sannensei (Kazuo Funaki)
15. Sound of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel)
14. Nagori yuki (Iruka)
13. Haru nanoni (Yoshie Kashiwabara)
11. Seifuku (Seiko Matsuda)
11. Kanpai (Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi)


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BUMP OF CHICKEN collaborates with Hatsune Miku for their single [ray]






1: れいおφ ★:2014/03/13(木) 17:58:57.06 ID:???0
Rock band BUMP OF CHICKEN revealed the music video of "BUMP OF CHICKEN feat. HATSUNE MIKU「ray" on the 13th on their official website, their first ever collaboration with another artist.

This is a different version of their new song "ray" which is included in their latest album titled [RAY]. Digital versions went on sale at the same time the album was released, and got 1st in the iTunes Store ranking. This collaboration has attracted the attention of music fans and Japanese pop culture fans alike.

The official website has also posted an interview with the band members as to how this collaboration happened. Hatsune Miku's official YouTube channel has uploaded a behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of the video.


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Saturday, March 8, 2014

Masaharu Fukuyama: "Some people have been searching 'Fukuyama ghost writer' on the Internet these days"

Hello everyone! We have changed the format of our posts as 2channel now has a "no transfer/copy" policy. In accordance with this, we won't be posting the numbers nor the Japanese text anymore, only the translations. We will still be including a link to the original thread at the bottom of the post for your reference. We would like to apologize for any inconveniences this may cause. Thanks!


Masaharu Fukuyama talked about the ghost writer accusations being thrown his way recently on his radio program.

Fukuyama has announced that his 11th original album -- his first in 5 years --titled HUMAN (2-disc), will be released in April this year. And 2 songs from his upcoming album which have already been released digitally have ranked 1st and 2nd in Recochoku's Chakuuta ranking for 2/19~2/25.

But a lot have been questioning if Fukuyama really has the capacity to write all these songs despite all his drama and movie roles. There was also an incident when Keisuke Kuwata of Southern All Stars joked on his radio program Keisuke Kuwata no Yasashii Yoasobi (TOKYO FM) that "of course, everyone has a ghost writer. We even have that in Amuse". Again, he insisted that this was a joke, but did mention Fukuyama's and BEGIN's names, which has led to further speculation.

Fukuyama seems to be aware of these allegations as he talked about this on his radio program Fukuyama Masaharu no All Night Nippon Saturday Special - Tamashii no Radio (Nippon Housou), revealing that "there are people who have been searching [Fukuyama (space) Ghostwriter] on the Internet these days".

He emphasized that he even played almost all the guitar parts on his upcoming album and how he was very particular about the minor details and fine tuning until the very end.

There are a lot of singer-songwriters rumored to have ghost writers following the Samuragochi incident, and people were expecting an avalanche of revelations to come, but a lot of the truth is still left in the dark.


Source: 
http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/8579646/ 


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Sunday, February 9, 2014

L'Arc~en~Ciel really had a lot of excellent songs during their early days



1: 名無し募集中。。。 2013/02/08 00:34:50
1st 『Blurry Eyes』
2nd 『Vivid Colors』
3rd 『Natsu no Yuutsu [time to say good-bye]』
4th 『Kaze ni Kienaide』
5th 『flower』
6th 『Lies and Truth』
7th 『Niji』
8th 『winter fall』
9th 『DIVE TO BLUE』
10th 『Shinshoku ~lose control~』
11th 『HONEY』
12th 『Kasou』
13th 『snow drop』

捨て曲一切なしじゃん
Not a single crappy song



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Monday, February 3, 2014

After the propeller dance comes the "Gao-gao dance" -- Ayame Gouriki's new dance step for her 2nd single


1: 禿の月φ ★ 2014/01/28(火) 06:54:32.30 ID:???P
Gao-gao's the next dance craze after the propeller! The music video for Ayame Gouriki's 2nd single "Anata no 100 no kirai na tokoro" (The 100 things that you hate, 2/26 release) will be featuring a new dance step.
Her dance for this song is hip-hop inspired. The highlight of which is the chorus, where she raises both arms above her head, acts like she will pounce on her prey while dancing left to right.
This pose was inspired by the tiger that appears in the music video, to which Gouriki herself gave the name "Gao-gao dance".
Her debut song "Tomodachi yori daiji na hito", which was released in July last year, introduced the propeller dance which became a hot topic.


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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Golden Bomber's new song "101-kaime no noroi" ranks #1 on Oricon


1: 禿の月φ ★ 2014/01/07(火) 04:45:53.55 ID:???P
4-man visual-kei air band Golden Bomber released their new song "101-kai me no noroi" on the 1st day of the new year and sold 158,000 copies, debuting at #1 on the weekly singles ranking dated January 13. This is their follow-up to last year's "Dance my Generation" (also released on new year's day). Their first week sales are up by over 30,000 units from last year's 125,000. The last indie label artist to rank 1st on Oricon was Mongol800 with "Yorokobi no uta" (2003, 12/22-12/29), and Golden Bomber are the first indie artists to have 2 consecutive singles rank 1st.

Singer, songwriter, and composer Sho Kiryuuin comments: "Thank you very much for purchasing our CD m(_ _)m I truly feel how lucky and blessed we are for having people reach out and buy our CD".

Their song "Memeshikute" (released October 2009) which they performed at the 64th Kouhaku also broke into the top 100 once again since May 27 of last year (76th) as it ranked in at 58th for the week.

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Friday, December 20, 2013

List of songs to be performed at the 64th Kouhaku revealed



1: れいおφ ★ 2013/12/18(水) 14:07:26.90 ID:???0
The songs to be performed by the 51 artists at the 64th Annual Kouhaku Uta Gassen have been announced.

(Songs after the jump)

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Mai Kuraki to sing the theme song for Majo no Takkyubin, new trailer revealed


1: 禿の月φ ★ 2013/12/10(火) 04:17:14.09 ID:???P
New information has surfaced about the live action version of Majo no Takkyubin, as the main theme song of which will be sung by singer Mai Kuraki.

Yumi Matsutoya sang the theme song for the 1989 anime movie, while Mai Kuraki's composition "Wake me up" will be used for this version.

It's got the sense of speed that perfectly suits the main character Kiki as she flies freely throughout the vast sky, and even director Takashi Shimizu showed his satisfaction for the piece saying, "It immediately struck a chord the moment I listened to it". He further comments: "Not only does it fit the image of the movie, but it's also a transparent and energetic number that represents 'new beginnings', perfect for Kuraki-san's 15th anniversary in the industry". "This is a story that everyone knows so I am definitely feeling the pressure, but I was given courage by her as I felt that she was taking on this massive challenge together with me. I may be known as a horror movie director, but I hope to go for a new kind of 'wake me up!!' in this movie together with her singing voice."

Kuraki's comments on the song: "I wrote the lyrics with the thought of not giving up whatever may happen, and to do things that are true to oneself". "As for the sound, I sang the song while imagining Kiki-chan riding a broom and flying across the sky." 


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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The cat who loves the opening sequence of Amachan wwwwwwwwww



1: ラ ケブラーダ(愛知県) 2013/07/27(土) 17:18:33.81 ID:s5aCcHNJ0●
The name of the cat is "Tama-chan". Once the upbeat opening theme song starts playing, the cat makes a run for the TV. Tama-chan politely sits and watches the screen. But once the song goes into the chorus and the screen shows the Sanriku coastline, the cat suddenly jumps and attacks the TV! It seems the cat is concerned about the bird flying in that scene.


Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddTKEm1A9Rk


Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUh23A5dSdQ



Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xOjLkRurJo


Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0GP3R1mGt0




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