Nante Japan Podcast: May 2024 Review
This month’s episode features segments on Hoshino Gen's cheating rumor, the departure of Jun Matsumoto from STARTO ENTERTAINMENT, Shiina Ringo's new album, and more.
Features hosts
@taylorronald
,
@pulseplaggg
, and
@AngryDaenjangny
!
@onikabankz
@_nellerita_
@Perfectopat_
The overtly masculine dark skin BBC king who doesn't know that he's essentially seen as a wild animal that can't be controlled. This fetishization goes hand in hand with the idea that he's also prone to violence.
The Johnny's boy band King & Prince explores English lyrics on its third album, “Re:Sense," and embraces showing the more personal sides of its members on social media.
#KP
の恋降るベラベラENGLISH
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Today SeiSei🐼 taught me the word…
【bop】
Bop is so easy to use!
Our song, “Koi furu tsukiyo ni kimi omou” is a bop!
“Fuwaku” is a super bop!!
Tomorrow is Kaito!
See you then~
#Sho
A big thanks to
@japantimes
for the lovely write-up of their interview with
#SixTONES
! The guys had so much fun chatting with the writer and appreciate the chance to share their thoughts about music and more in English!
#SixTONES_CITY
#SixTONES_FeeldaCITY
Me asking him what's next for him when I interviewed him for "
#Manhole
", and thinking he was going to be in "Cats" at first when he said he was going to be a cat next 😭
Yuto Nakajima of
#HeySayJUMP
shares his best cat pose for the opening of his starring stage play "Higeyo, Saraba!"
"It's finally here! Whatever happens, I know it will turn out ok as long as we focus on giving the audience a great time."
#ひげよさらば
#JohnnysUpClose
@jrdjms
I'm now reminded of a story from the Charli concert I went to last week in New York where a woman was verbally attacked and peed on by a group of men
Last night I went to a
@charli_xcx
concert by myself to have fun alongside other fans & wound up getting cursed at & racistly mocked by a group of men. Then one of them peed on my leg. The level of violation I felt. On top of this other fans in the crowd mocked me for it (1/18)
The six-member Johnny's act marks two years of many firsts such as appearing on the YouTube channel The First Take and working with established artists such as Yoshiki and Daiki Tsuneta.
Thierry Mugler was a leather daddy into FISTING & would cast everybody in his shows from Porn Stars to the Trumps so acting like Mugler is some sort of beacon of class to shade Meg is funny when it never gave that especially now that they the worlds largest bodysuit supplier
@bimboyugari
@MrRightToLeft
There are tons of sneakers on their site. If you just wanted sneakers you would have bought those. But you wanted Jordans. Why do you want Jordan's? Why do you still want them even after seeing how hard they are to get?
Howie wasn't on this episode. Heidi said that they were like a Broadway show, which was a big dream of Johnny Kitagawa's. Sofia said they were fun, and like Vegas. Simon said they had great personality and he loves working with groups, so hopefully he can get them better songs.
On 12/31, MISIA turned Kohaku into Pride. The next day Shiina Ringo reunited Tokyo Jihen. Now, Ayumi Hamasaki announces her motherhood. What's going to happen tomorrow? New Utada Hikaru world tour?
@mbmelodies
Their office is right next to Koreatown. Why didn't he just ask someone? This is bizarre. Why not get someone with knowledge to write this? Ohh yeah, because a non-informed person writing it will give it that novelty paint job
I recently had a video interview, in English, with Keito Okamoto ahead of his play "M. Butterfly." We discussed the play, its LGBT content, his time in New York at drama school, his departure from Hey! Say! JUMP, and more!
It was ahead because they were at different stages of development. Korea had just stopped being a dictatorship not too long ago. The reason why Korean music is seen as limited today stems from a lot of things being banned during the dictatorship, like rock music.
I interviewed former Johnny's Jr. member Koki Maeda about his time in the company, his thoughts on recent changes in the company, and the alleged sexual abuse of idols by Johnny Kitagawa.
@bimboyugari
@MrRightToLeft
So you're suggesting a price increase, similar to what Chanel does? Making more of the product just isn't going to happen because then the scarcity decreases, and then so does demand.
I see KPop fans using this video as a means of bashing JPop, but she's been in the KPop industry for how many years now? And this is her second KPop group? And nothing has changed? What does this say about KPop?
"Fashionable production" is the whole point. She's playing off the revival of UK garage, which was 20 years ago, meaning it is ripe for reexamination. The less impactful vocals she has is what brings it into the now.
pinkpantheress is so bad… these songs just do not stick, it’s all just fashionable production. her voice is kind of perfect, sitting at a range that has the patina of being pitch-shifted, but she’s never able to capitalize on that. the hooks and songwriting aren’t there.
Being in Korea made me realize that they really are technically at war still. The shelter signs, the emergency kit in my hotel rooms, the soldiers in uniform just walking around...
How do you as an non Korean ESPECIALLY an American feel comfortable being so disgustingly xenophobic and racist to basically threaten South Korea, with glee might I add, with economic downturn because a pop group is going to enlist in the military?
I showed one of my co-workers my King & Prince article this past weekend. She came in today and told she's now getting their videos suggested on YouTube
I had a video call with Travis Japan last week! We discussed their appearance on "America's Got Talent", how Japanese and American audiences are different, and what it is like to follow in the footsteps of Johnny's and Shonentai by training in the US!
I see people saying that JPop is derived from black music like KPop, and while that is true to an extent, I think it is a narrow focus on Japanese music.
The most frustrating thing about the reporting on the Johnny's abuse admission fallout is how it's so clickbaity.
A lot of the Japanese media is reporting on things as if they have already happened, but then conclude with, "It all depends on what Johnny's does going forward."
@KimberlyNFoster
The fact that a large portion of Black Twitter is just discovering she's mixed is wild. How does she look white? Isn't her name a clue? Do they not know who her father is?
The year will not end without the Drunken Karaoke King himself, Mr. Juri Tanaka, cementing his STatus in the karaoke world with one of the most iconic Celine Dion songs of all time 😂😂😂 #田中樹
#SixTONES