*facepalm* okay, I give up.
I will now start posting regularly for the first time in....oh three years.
But since this will all mostly be blather about the Japanese Entertainment industry in general and boybands in particular, I'll be filtering all those posts. Comment if anyone actually wants to be subjected to my verbal diarrhea.
Am so so in Love with the new KAT-TUN single (pun completely and horribly intended). Its like they finally decided to try this whole musical merit thing with KAT -TUN (and consequently Kame's voice has been edited out... rofl)
I can't help but wonder if this has anything to do with that little monthlong competition they had somaisgood mentioned where they pitted Kanjani8, NEWS, and KAT-TUN against each other in the charts.
I'm really curious how they're trying to market JE this season. All going back to stable money making schemes. With NEWS' very news-ish fresh, boy summer song, that they ACTUALLY called summertime and set in a beach house *facepalm* so so blatant. (I am completely in love with it)
And KAT-TUN both going back to their roots (after all of the rock lately) with a rock/hiphop mix that's centered on their dancing and Jin's voice but also trying out a strong K POP influence (in line with the test run on Love? plus recent rising popularity of DBSK with Beautiful You (which actually stayed on no. 1 on Oricon for a decent amt of time))
Also, my playlist slotted in this song next to Kizuna and Gold and when it slid from one song to the next I didn't notice at first, they synced so well. Not to mention the whole rehash of the pirate theme. This is much more like a grown-up version of 2004 KAT-TUN than the debuted KAT-TUN.
I'm really interested to see how JE plans on handling this, and I guess we'll see pretty soon with the dance/costuming/funding/promotion/dvd
I had wondered/worried for a while what they planned on doing with KAT-TUN since there was a bit of time when it seemed they were planning on using them up until they lost all appeal and them chucking them out. But this beseaks you know actual long term planning (maybe worthwhile what with all of the record breaking they keep doing *gasp* boys actually bought Keep the Faith!) with all of the rumors/evidence that JE is trying to build their popularity back up to its raging high immediately after their debut.
esp. with the general focus shifted off heysayjump for the time being (saw the latest pv, can anyone say budget cut?) and a new batch of juniors to promote/weed through (I swear they all just look like little bouncy bobs of hair to me... which one did you say was supposed to be the next Jin?) It would make sense to try to find what will be a reliable strong, long-term moneymaker while you devote resources to nurturing for the future. With rumors of Kinki Kid's flagging popularity, they could be setting up KAT-TUN to take their place in the JE money making hierarchy. Impressive long term planning for an organziation that so often seems a bit dumb in that regards.
Of course, this is all pure speculation from someone who can't even speak Japanese and spends waaay too much of her time studying Japanese pop, so feel free to educate me (*cough* all two of you who will bother to click the cut, tl;dr)
But since this will all mostly be blather about the Japanese Entertainment industry in general and boybands in particular, I'll be filtering all those posts. Comment if anyone actually wants to be subjected to my verbal diarrhea.
Am so so in Love with the new KAT-TUN single (pun completely and horribly intended). Its like they finally decided to try this whole musical merit thing with KAT -TUN (and consequently Kame's voice has been edited out... rofl)
I can't help but wonder if this has anything to do with that little monthlong competition they had somaisgood mentioned where they pitted Kanjani8, NEWS, and KAT-TUN against each other in the charts.
I'm really curious how they're trying to market JE this season. All going back to stable money making schemes. With NEWS' very news-ish fresh, boy summer song, that they ACTUALLY called summertime and set in a beach house *facepalm* so so blatant. (I am completely in love with it)
And KAT-TUN both going back to their roots (after all of the rock lately) with a rock/hiphop mix that's centered on their dancing and Jin's voice but also trying out a strong K POP influence (in line with the test run on Love? plus recent rising popularity of DBSK with Beautiful You (which actually stayed on no. 1 on Oricon for a decent amt of time))
Also, my playlist slotted in this song next to Kizuna and Gold and when it slid from one song to the next I didn't notice at first, they synced so well. Not to mention the whole rehash of the pirate theme. This is much more like a grown-up version of 2004 KAT-TUN than the debuted KAT-TUN.
I'm really interested to see how JE plans on handling this, and I guess we'll see pretty soon with the dance/costuming/funding/promotion/dvd
I had wondered/worried for a while what they planned on doing with KAT-TUN since there was a bit of time when it seemed they were planning on using them up until they lost all appeal and them chucking them out. But this beseaks you know actual long term planning (maybe worthwhile what with all of the record breaking they keep doing *gasp* boys actually bought Keep the Faith!) with all of the rumors/evidence that JE is trying to build their popularity back up to its raging high immediately after their debut.
esp. with the general focus shifted off heysayjump for the time being (saw the latest pv, can anyone say budget cut?) and a new batch of juniors to promote/weed through (I swear they all just look like little bouncy bobs of hair to me... which one did you say was supposed to be the next Jin?) It would make sense to try to find what will be a reliable strong, long-term moneymaker while you devote resources to nurturing for the future. With rumors of Kinki Kid's flagging popularity, they could be setting up KAT-TUN to take their place in the JE money making hierarchy. Impressive long term planning for an organziation that so often seems a bit dumb in that regards.
Of course, this is all pure speculation from someone who can't even speak Japanese and spends waaay too much of her time studying Japanese pop, so feel free to educate me (*cough* all two of you who will bother to click the cut, tl;dr)