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Missed this whole sandbox thing and thus ilx suddenly devoting a thread to this group and my album of the year.
Anyway, someone said something about Nakata finding a certain style and sticking with it for JPN; which is totally true - and the same for his other projects. There's a "Kyary" sound now, and a more defined Capsule sound, where before a Capsule song could've become a Perfume song, and I think he talked about this in an interview when the Capsule album was releasd.
More impressive that he's managed to juggle the projects and write some of the most crystallized melodies and songs. It helps that the build-up to this album was so long and we knew it would be great based on _that_ singles run, of course.
Baffling part: It's still not available legaly digitally to western audiences. They made a big point of Kyary's stuff being released on itunes at once, but no Perfume. J-pop's got some way to go to catch up with k-pop in making this material available. They're on a Disney soundtrack, ffs, there's a market for it.
― abcfsk, Friday, 9 December 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
have never understood what the criterion are for western iTunes activation. Capsule I can almost understand, all the lyrics are in English, but if them why not Shiina
I understand why it never happened with physical CDs, which are so expensive in Japan that they had no interest in allowing other countries to sell them at prices that would still be cheaper after being imported. But now that it's all digital, they can lock out continents and set the market price, it's almost as if after having assimilated and hyper-modded the west's music, they're uninterested in re-exporting it
― milton friendly, Friday, 9 December 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
been spinning JPN and esp that amazing live vid frpm above A LOT last week. thanking u, thread.
― alan, Thursday, 15 December 2011 01:52 (twelve years ago) link