[starttext] The FNS Music Festival airs live today, and since the list of artists participating in the event is long and impressive, tokyohive will be providing coverage.
In particular, the joint rehearsal of two popular idol girl groups, AKB48 & Shoujo Jidai (SNSD), has caught the attention of fans and Japanese media alike.
Five girls’ unit 9nine held a release event for their new single “Cross Over” on December 1st. Performing their popular ‘propeller dance’ in front of 1,000-member audience, many of their more avid fans started to cry at seeing their idols live.
One of the members, Kawashima Umika, reflected, “I’m happy too, because we don’t have many chances to meet our fans. Today was a fun day for us to be able to communicate with the fans.”
The members said that their next goal is to perform on music shows, since they have yet to appear on one with their current unit.
Hip-hop unit Alpha released their new digital single “Boy Meats Girl feat. HALCALI & RYO (from Ketsumeshi)” on December 1st, and also revealed the music video for the track.
The video features the three members of Alpha in the role of ‘herbivore’ men – a term used for men who aren’t as interested in girls and are more passive. All the members are shown with vegetables and donning the masks of horses to show their ‘herbivore’ nature.
The girls in the video take on the part of the carnivores and are shown wearing lion heads and being very outgoing. HALCALI joins in on the chorus and shows off a dance that they choreographed just for the video.
The single’s physical release date has yet to be announced, so the only way to purchase the track is through Chaku-Uta.
We reported previously that pop singer Kuroki Meisa was going to challenge flamenco dance for an NHK special, “Kuroki Meisa Spain Flamenco ~Tamashii no Odori to Deau Tabi~.” Recently, the singer has released a video of her taking flamenco dance lessons with the famous dancer, Antonio El Pipa.
Her lessons were all taught to her in Spanish through the help of a Japanese translator. The video shows Meisa working in a Spanish dance studio perfecting the moves with her instructor. Although she has had previous dance experience, this was her first time dancing in the flamenco style. Despite that fact, she obviously caught on very quickly, even mimicking Antonio’s intense passion for the dance.
Previously, we reported that Goto Maki would be releasing a new mini album, “Gloria“, on January 12th, and the PV for one of the tracks, “Ashiato“, has been released on the avex official YouTube channel.
[starttext] To celebrate the release of her second single, “Jin Jin Jingle Bell feat. Pentaphonic“, on November 24th, model/actress Sasaki Nozomi held a ‘talk & handshake event’ at Tower Records Shinjuku on the same day. As we reported earlier, this song is a cover of Moritaka Chisato’s “Jin Jin Jingle Bell” from 1995.
Unfortunately for the 500 fans who attended the event, she did not perform the song; instead, Sasaki requested that they have fun singing the song themselves during Karaoke.
When reporters asked if she would like to perform on a music show in the future, Sasaki replied that it was already too much for her to sing a small PR-event. “I’m so nervous that I can’t sing,” she said. “Doing a live performance is still a bit…”
Five girls’ unit 9nine held a release event for their new single “Cross Over” on December 1st. Performing their popular ‘propeller dance’ in front of 1,000-member audience, many of their more avid fans started to cry at seeing their idols live.
The members said that their next goal is to perform on music shows, since they have yet to appear on one with their current unit.
To celebrate the release of her second single, “Jin Jin Jingle Bell feat. Pentaphonic“, on November 24th, model/actress Sasaki Nozomi held a ‘talk & handshake event’ at Tower Records Shinjuku on the same day. As we reported earlier, this song is a cover of Moritaka Chisato’s “Jin Jin Jingle Bell” from 1995. 
