MINA returns to MAX! YES! If you're not into JPOP, you will not give a rat's ass about this thread.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Mina returns to MAX

http://blog.mystarhill.com/music/mina-returns-to-max/



The female pop group MAX is going back to its roots.

Former lead singer MINA is returning to the group after an absence of six years, reuniting the unit’s four original members.

They already have plans for a new release and a reunion concert.

MINA left the group in 2002 due to her unexpected pregnancy and marriage, and she was replaced by singer AKI.

However, AKI withdrew from the group this past August to pursue a solo career, reducing MAX to three members.

The reunited MAX will make their first public appearance together this Thursday on the Fuji TV program “Tokudane!”

In December, they will release a best album called “NEW EDITION ~MAXIMUM HITS~,” featuring new arrangements of 12 of their past hits, including a remix by Clazziquai Project.

The album will also include a new song titled “Are you ready?”

MAX has scheduled their first post-reunion concert for January 31 at the C.C. Lemon Hall in Shibuya.

[DarkTirade]

1. I tend to prefer Jrock to Jpop.

:shrug:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. My collection of JPOP is ridiculous.

MAX, Seiko Matsuda, Nanase Aikawa, Shizuka Kudo, My Little Lover, Noriko Sakai...on and on and on and ON.

There is a big, BIG English-language influence in JPOP songwriting...I suspect some of these performers see The Beatles as gods (ESPECIALLY My Little Lover).

But the one thing I will say about JPOP...even though there is a HUGE mountain of CRAP and "flavor of the month" that comes from the "Idol" mentality in the Japanese marketplace...is that some of this stuff is achingly beautiful, intense, mind-numbingly wonderful.

:toast:

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

2. I fell in love with a Kpop girl group a few years ago

called Sugar. Adorably gorgeous girls who sang well and had A-list production teams. They did some recording in Japan as well. I like the way they do it in Asia, where they find gorgeous girls who can sing, then teach them some basic dance moves. Here, they keep trying to turn dancers into singers, and the results are not pretty on the ear.

Anyway, give me cute girl singers, well produced technopop backing and I am a happy lad even if I don't understand a word. I like Ayumi Yamasaki, too, but a three year bout of medical issues and unemployment has kept me from digging into her massive discography.