6th Station ~Other Bands for H!P Fans~

[Moh]

Here is the official Kouhaku 2021 artist list
https://www.nhk.or.jp/kouhaku/artist/index.html

Nice to see DISH// and Awesome City Club made it to that list.

[TotallyUncool]

According to Momiji's Insta, she's been listening to some old Puffy (of the AmiYumi variety, needless to say) songs, and I think the influence is beginning to show in WangDangDoodle's latest MV:

[Moh]

femme fatale - Cupid (sound prod. Kenmochi Hidefumi)


Give&Give - Power Stone

[Moh]

When royalty drops by your studio


Mika Nakashima - Boku Ga Shinou To Omottanowa / THE FIRST TAKE

She almost teases a brief glimmer of a smile @ 7:25

I need to go through her newer albums. This is a great song.

Even more royalty here: MISIA dropped by THE FIRST TAKE's studio. She performed a new track, Higher Love, which was penned by Fujii Kaze.


She took me to church with this one, lol.

[erilaz]

I cried out with joy when I heard that Frau Merkel wanted this song played at her farewell ceremony.



I have the original 1974 East German vinyl single of this song, with picture sleeve.

[Moh]

CAPSULE released another 80s synthwave-inspired song, Virtual Freedom:


My favorite one so far! I hope they announce an album for next year.

I've been working hard on compiling my list of favorite albums for the year! I have 123 western albums alone saved on Spotify.

[Zunu]

Lol, that showed up on my YT feed and I just assumed it was a classic song that for some reason Nakata decided to release a video for

[Zunu]

Aimer's new video "ONE AND LAST" got almost a million views in one day.

One thing she did that seemed effective is set it to debut with an optional reminder. I think Upga have done that a few times, but if H!P do it, I don't recall, at any rate, they could do it more often.




EDIT:

Another Aimer video called 残響散歌 (Zangyo Sanka) just debuted, and while this one "only" has 164k views thus far in the 2 hours since its premiere, it is nothing short of spectacular. It's going to be the season 2 second half opening theme for Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba.

[Moh]

Wow, both of those are some of her best songs. I haven't listened to her since daydream came out; I should probably catch up. Zangyo Sanka is at 735K views now. (And almost 3 million plays on Spotify!)

[Shoujo Q]

aespa covered S.E.S's Dreams Come True and that's exciting for me because I love that song and this cover isn't bad at all.
(I love a GOOD cover song.)