Time Machine is SNSD’s latest Japanese track. It was included on the repackaged version of their Japanese debut album along with the Japanese version of The Boys. The song itself has been out a long time, but the music video was just released.

Girls’ Generation ~ Time Machine

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Credit: source vid. fishing@jpopsuki

The most prominent features of the video are Yoon-a in the snow, Sunny in the rain and Tae-yeon’s gorgeousness. Yu-ri also looks great. Well, they all do. You know how it goes .

The song starts out nice, but the chorus sounds so-so to me. It’ll probably grow on me as I listen to it a bit more (it kind of already has). I like the verse — and the video. They sing about regrets and wanting a time machine, but the end of the video shows them crying (울지마세요!) and then picking them selves up and moving on. I guess that’s the thing to do when your pleas for a time machine go unanswered .

I saw that a Korean release of the repackaged Japanese album came out last month. I might pick it up, since it’s more affordable than the Japanese version.

This is the second song from KARA’s upcoming Japanese double A-side single. It stands in stark* contrast to Speed Up. It shows off KARA’s cute side. I think the composer is Korean, but the song sounds very J-Poplike with the typical guitars, just like in Go Go Summer.

KARA ~ Girl’s Power

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Don’t eat the bunny Ji-young!

Ji-young jjang in this video ♥

Teaser:

(* I’m actually watching Game of Thrones while typing this, hehe).

KARA is doing really well over in Japan. Later this month they’re releasing their sixth Japanese single. It’s a double A-side single consisting of the songs Speed Up and Girl’s Power.

KARA ~ Speed Up

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They can really pull off both the hot/sultry look (as shown in this video) as well as the über-cutesy look (coming up next). Seung-yeon looks so fierce! It feels like Ji-young is getting more and more focus in KARA’s videos. She’s very popular in Japan. I’m not complaining, though. She’s my favourite member, along with Seung-yeon. Loving Ji-young’s hair btw. And Seung-yeon’s red hair too. They all look great, as a matter of fact.

Teaser:

Take off is 2PM’s Japanese debut single from last year. It was also used as the ending song for the anime Blue Exorcist.

2PM ~ Take off

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Requested by joua.

The music video for じぶんROCK actually kind of has a story. It’s told in the form of cartoons. Don’t worry though; there’s the typical band footage too .

ONE OK ROCK ~ Jibun ROCK

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This is YUI’s acoustic performance of Green a.live at Bokura no ongaku back in the beginning of November.

YUI ~ Green a.live Live@Bokura no Ongaku 20111104

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I really like this song. Here it’s arranged differently. It’s a bit more elaborate than the studio version. Bordering too elaborate, since I like the simplicity of the song. But still very good.

I love it when YUI does her occasional cover, because she usually picks interesting songs. This song is called Tsubasa wo kudasai (翼をください) and was originally performed by the folk song group Akai Tori back in 1971.

YUI ~ Tsubasa wo kudasai Live@Music Lovers 20111113

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You can really hear the 70’s carry through. It has a nice feeling to it.

Time for another ONE OK ROCK video .

ONE OK ROCK ~ Liar

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Here’s ONE OK ROCK’s 完全感覚 Dreamer from their fourth album Niche Syndrome.

ONE OK ROCK ~ Kanzen Kankaku Dreamer

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It’s a pretty simple video, but still nice.

All in all 2011 has been a good year for me. Not very cheap though, but good. A “premium” year .

I had started listening to IU at the very end of 2010 and continued to listen to her during 2011. Now I’m a total fanboy.

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