#JMusicFriday The theme is "obscure" music. What obscure MV or song left a lasting impression on you?

#JIdol: 抗イキル by “Kuroi Shoujo” launched me down a new rabbit hole: club videos, fan cam, and idol units that are virtually unknown in the West. Unfortunately, the group leader was unable to handle the pressure of being an idol and, after taking several breaks for "health reasons," graduated and disappeared. The bright side was I was introduced to their sister unit, Konton Shoujo whom I actively follow.

ヌヌ・ヌヌ I miss you. I hope things have gotten better for you.

黒ゐ少女-抗イキル-Music Video【公式】
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeTtkrh9dGg
https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=QeTtkrh9dGg

#KuroiShoujo #黒ゐ少女
#地下アイドル #アイドルル #idol
#JRock #JPunk #JGothic #JMusic #Rock #Punk

黒ゐ少女-抗イキル-Music Video【公式】

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#JMusicFriday The theme is #CelebrateWomen. This excellent theme was suggested by @mdmrn

Since it's International our theme is "Celebrate Women."

#CelebrateWomen #InternationalWomensDay
#JukeboxFridayNight #JMetal #JRock #JPop

Genesis by Isiliel

Listen to "Genesis" by Isiliel on any music platform - Free smart music links by Songwhip

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#JMusicFriday

The theme is #JCovers #Covers

What cover have you listened to recently that caught your attention or maybe it's a cover that you heard and has stuck with you.

Let hear your pick.
#JapaneseMusic #JMusic

#JMusicFriday: / #JCovers: Turns out I have a whole album of covers. "Sentimental Jukebox."

The most recent release by Nantyara-Idol / なんちゃらアイドル are covers they have been compiling for the last seven years. I am sure there must be something on it that fits the theme for #jukeboxfridaynight #Covers

I give you "Sentimental Jukebox"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOs0B454FNc&list=OLAK5uy_kiqNaJCUjCwg6pGVRY3-wtYZ_Ne7MCwWw
https://open.spotify.com/album/0PCiHe3iC2jktjhCRyeasv?si=qn_QIe5FRSqlH7lEbNIR8A

#あおはる #yokuwakan_nai
#御茶海マミ #みさみまみ #samami27
#なんちゃらアイドル #NantyaraIdol
#地下アイドル #アイドルル #Idol #JIdol
#JPop #JRock #Pop #Rock #JMusic

運命の人

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#JMusicFriday The theme is #JFanCam #Fancam

What amateu recording, fancam, club recording, etc would you like to share., (It doesn't have to be fancom but it should be non-proffessional.)

Let hear your pick.
#JapaneseMusic #JMusic

#JMusicFriday The theme is #JFanCam #Fancam

Today I have a nice recording of Yuripico/Yurismile made during her first German show. No chance this is going to show up with songwhip.

ゆらぴこ - Yurapico - Doki Doki Deutschland - Very 1st German Concert - 15 July 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuElBGgu3kA

#Yurapico #ゆらぴこ #YuraSmile
#地下アイドル #アイドル #Idol #JIdol
#JRock #JPop #JMusic #JapaneseMusic #Rock #Pop

ゆらぴこ - Yurapico - Doki Doki Deutschland - Very 1st German Concert - 15 July 2023

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#JMusicFriday The theme is #BetterWorld

Let's run with that. My picked theme can wait.

You may disagree with my premise though:

NECRONOMIDOL - STRANGE AEONS Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49OUMLNSCq0

#JukeboxFridayNight
#Necronomidol
#地下アイドル #アイドル #Idol #JMetal #Metal #BlackMetal #JRock #Rock #JMusic

NECRONOMIDOL - STRANGE AEONS Music Video

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@NaraMoore Most of my #JCovers answers are more anime than anything  But I have one or two #JDance picks.

Answering the second question for #JMusicFriday ! 1/2

 angela x Chiaki Ishikawa, singing A Cruel Angel's Thesis. From Animelo Summer Live 2009. It was in that year I discovered it and it's stuck with me. IMO a very hard song to cover because it needs a certain voice to do so, and both these ladies have the lungs to do it in their own way. Being from 2009, the video's long gone from YT and I can't find my own copy (I still have the mp3 and a ripped to CD version lol), so this VK link will have to do, it's the only one I've found: https://vk.com/video-33431674_161526477

 The song "You are the one," which has been sung by Namie Amuro and globe. I had no idea which one came first until looking it up right now for this question and turns out neither! Originally a charity song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8sMYBD6IU) where Amuro and KCO from globe both appeared, and then globe covered it in 1998. Then Amuro did her own cover in 1999.

(source here: https://amuro.fr/v5/releases/singles/something-bout-the-kiss/you-are-the-one/)

globe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9bV-CRn650

Amuro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo18HrG2awk (I could only find the live version)

Both have lived in my head for many years, and both are very good within each performer's strengths. I am eternally biased towards globe's version though.

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@NaraMoore 2/2 #JCovers #JMusicFriday for the second question, still!

 Kalafina covering See-Saw's Anna ni Issho Datta No Ni, at Animax Music Fall 2010. Might be a cheat since both are Kajiura-related, but Kalafina's cover is already unique due to being a cover by a group, plus they are a vocal harmony group. The bridge is particularly fabulous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4gwQfAppj8&t

**EXTRA**: The Youtube mashup has long been deleted, it seems, but I still have a copy of the song itself--a mashup with Chiaki Ishikawa's animelo performance of the song and Kalafina's performance of the above. This is the one that lives in my head, so not really a cover but something very cool regardless. You'll have to download it though, I couldn't make it play in-browser, sorry: https://file.garden/ZRpLQD_G0TetIeS8/Kalafina%20X%20Chiaki%20Ishikawa%20-%20Anna%20ni%20issho%20datta%20no%20ni.mp3

 HIMEKA singing Yuzurenai Negai. This one is one of my favorite covers of one of my absolute favorite songs, from an amazing singer. Even now playing it while I type this is giving me goosebumps, as it always does. IMO another hard song to cover properly, and HIMEKA's version succeeds where so many others fail. It even takes a chance in changing it up by singing the chorus first--and to me, some of the best covers are the ones where they change the song to their styles and strengths. Nowadays though, I just get sad due to how HIMEKA and her career ended and get sadder whenever I listen to her songs, to the point where sometimes I can't listen to them. I hope she's okay constantly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TIoFF_X6sk

Kalafina - Anna ni Issho Datta no ni Gundam SEED

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@NaraMoore Oooh! Cool. I just hadn't seen a theme posted yet, so I just rolled with Jukebox Friday Night's theme as I was posting about J-Music at the same time!

@mdmrn

It was a good call.

JMusicFriday prompt will be a little late. I'm in PST & keep writers hours.

Unelss I'm up for something streaming out of Japan that means late by Eastern US and European time.

@NaraMoore I got you. Sounds good!

I'll make sure I wait next week - didn't want to preempt y'all and don't want to do so next week!

@mdmrn

Feel free to suggest something though. I suspect all prompt provider are happy for suggestions. Save overworking my one brain cell.