Amuro Namie (安室奈美恵) - Eng

By the end of 2017, while she was celebrating in live her 40th anniversary, including 25 years of career, the J-Pop singer Amuro Namie announced suddenly her retirement for the following year from show-biz, to take care of her family. An announcement followed in January 2018 by the one of the famous producer Komuro Tetsuya who had launched her, which obliges to come back without delay on this princess of J-Pop.

Amuro Namie (安室奈美恵)

From Super Monkey's to Queen of Hip-Pop

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1st publication : 2018/02/28

Last updated: 2018/08/29

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Choo Choo TRAIN (Eng)

After seeing the presentations of EXILE and ZOO, the most informed have probably guessed that I was soon going to speak about Choo Choo TRAIN and its famous choreography 😏. Here is indeed the article on this railway-lover winter song which is making a living for these 2 bands, and also for the advertisers and otakus for more than 25 years !

Choo Choo TRAIN

Snow "D." Train...

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1st publication: 18/02/2017
Last updated: 28/01/2021

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ZOO (Eng)

Launched on the rails of success in 1989 by a TV show about dance, the ZOO band is a collection of the best Japanese dancers of the moment, dancing on the voice of one or two female singers depending on the time. If the show meets success on itself, it is especially thanks to an ad music for the national railways company, the Japan Railways (JR), that the band became famous...

ZOO

The locomotive of the Japanese dance

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French publication : 31/12/2016.

English version: /02/2017.

Last update:10/08/2017.
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EXILE TRIBE (Eng)

EXILE TRIBE refers to several male bands created and produced by the dancer Igarashi Hiroyuki alias "EXILE HIRO", distinguishing from most of the other "challengers" by the quite clear separation between singers and dancers, which allows each of them to perform beyond the average. In 15 years, at the time I wrote this article for the 1st time, they succeeded this way to become serious challengers to the "Johnny's", male Idols who belong to another Japanese agency leading a nearly monopoly for years (in J-Pop), and are among the few Japanese artists to succeed on the Dance - RnB/Hip-hop genre which established the fame of the K-Pop bands.

EXILE TRIBE

For the love of dance

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French publication : 30/11/2016.

English version: 31/01/2017.

Last update: 29/01/2021.

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EXILE for the album 19 (2015): HIRO in center with singers Atsushi (sunglass) and Takahiro.

Mirai Yosouzu 2 - 未来予想図 II (Eng)

As I'm writing it in January 2016, year of the monkey (saru), I wish you an happy new year... and I apologize for not having posted more J-Music standards articles during these first months of existence. I should have more time this year, and as a good resolution, here is this one, I wish I had released sooner...

Last 6th of May 2015, we celebrated the 50 years old of Miwa, singer of band Dreams Come True whose we celebrated too the 25 years of  career between 2014 and 2015, and thus I'm going to introduce to you one of their numerous standards, precisely their very 1st hit, Mirai Yosouzu 2 (未来予想図 II). However nothing was predestining this title to such a notoriety, apart from this puzzling "2", as no other identical title had been released before !

Back to the Future

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English version: 17/01/2016.
Last update: 31/12/2019

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Dreams Come True (Eng)

It's all in the name of the band, whose career, at least the one of the 2 remaining members, would make dream a lot of artists in the world.

Dreams come true





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English version: 17/01/2016.

Last update: 13/10/2017.

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