Quite a few new members to integrate, and a new album which ignored every song released in 20 for good measure. I love a moving rhythm guitar in a chorus (see Tokyo Girls' Style's Bad Flower for another sexy example), and this is the best example in years. Kobushi Factory proving you don't need to be an underground idol group with no fans to lose 3 members in a matter of months all for varying degrees of scandal, whilst two other members are also tarred with the same brush. Ostensibly the previous Angerme members, having already established themselves as the fucknut group of H!P, have somehow awoken magic and use it to trap their new members in with them until they too become fucknuts. Lyrical stupidity aside, anyway.Īngerme left it late in the year to release something I really liked, but when they did, I got this hilarity. Can't really look past it as my idol song of 2017. Also it's damn funky and sexy as all hell with that bass. Henkka's wonderfully polished remix shows the former, whereas the use of Dance☆Man and lyrics related to Japan's place in the world and doing something to improve it hearken heavily back to Love Machine. That aside, this song is basically Nakajima Terui's tribute to both Stevie Wonder and Love Machine. As of yet, only public bodies have actually started to do it.

It's got to the point where the Japanese government has even designated the last Friday of every month as 'Premium Friday' where there's no overtime. And even despite all that overtime Japan's productivity is stupidly low. It basically glorifies Japan's serious problem with unpaid overtime and the resultant deaths by overwork (過労死) that occur due to it. Honestly that line with 何様だ pisses me off. Most Randomly Stupid Yet Stupidly Catchy Song of 2017 And she's turning Christmas into Halloween, because that's Suzu. In more ridiculous disappointments, still kind of need Haga Akane to evolve into Hagane and release her metal potential. From the deaths of the remainder of all the groups I first started liking when I stumbled across underground idols all those years ago (so long to Next Shoujo Jiken, Tsuki to Taiyou, Guso Drop and Hauptharmonie from my A-list this year) to my return to Japan 4 months ago only to find myself too remote to be able to go to Tokyo frequently to catch the lives I wanted, resulting in me seeing Guso Drop only twice before their demise, and still not having seen Zekkyou due to their ridiculously far-reaching live schedule. Shame the fans are boring and are basically all kameko (camera-wielding motherfuckers who block everyone else's view). The first time I saw them they did Noise Music and one Dot sat on the stage whilst the others brought her a bunch of panties and she ate them. But it's so fucking catchy, eh.ĭon't get me wrong, I do love Dots. The random genre crash and stupidity and ooh colour explosions.īest Song To Play When You Ragequit Your Job of 2017Īlestorm doing wonders for the 'parental advisory' crowd here. THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU! (to keep dressing like a spanner for the foreseeable future)

So the photobook is basically neither, just completely dirty.

Whether being cheerful as hell or emo as hell she's almost wondefully split-personalitied. She's a bit of a spanner and in Keyaki is one of the members that keeps you guessing as to how broken she actually is (I think most of them are pretty broken or emo as it is). Either way, with trolleattroll or Hajimetal, Rie's career doesn't look like something as basic as Ladybaby disintegrating will stand in its way. The music and video actually heavily remind me of the Banvox/Yamabe Miyu collab Umbrella, which was fantasically weird. Thus it was basically between this and another video which will come up later, which this just won out. Solstafir released two music videos this year, both wonderfully shot but unfortunately not by Bowen Staines and thus lacking the deeper meaning that his videos usually contain, and metal let me down considerably. Very rare that I give this award to something Japanese, let alone idol-related, but this year Rie put out something artsy as hell and that makes me happy. Probably a tie between Daichi, for sacrificing Guso Drop on the altar of doubt, leaving Saki and Fumimi to their own devices simply because he wanted to stop writing exclusively for only a few groups, only to curtail his freelance career to write exclusively for only two groups or Watanabe Junnosuke for his continued attempts to make an idol under his auspices commit suicide just for publicity. wait, what am I even talking about? I can barely remember anything of note that happened this year.

Rei guso drop