Perfume

Please help! I'm in an awful fix! I can't decide if Japanese technopop girl group Perfume is absolute dreck or absolute genius!

They sure are cute as a jar full of buttons, though. I love it when they sing the phrases "Linear Motor Girl" and "Sweet Doughnuts" and "Chocolate Disco" in English. And the videos are hallucinatory.

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Posted By: Paul - Thu May 19, 2011
Category: Music | Sex Symbols | Asia

Comments

Sounds like pretty standard J-Pop based on Anime music & Techno-Pop. Have you heard their hit "Polyrhythm"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebWsTKtTHzs

Posted by Freddie Freelance on 05/19/11 at 02:22 PM

Freddie--thanks for the pointer. Found Polyrhythm okay, but not as much fun as the others.

Posted by Paul on 05/19/11 at 04:15 PM

GGNYC--what can I say? I was fascinated by them!

Posted by Paul on 05/19/11 at 08:56 PM

fascinated? really Paul? I vote dreck. 😊

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/19/11 at 10:10 PM

@Robb, much gooder!

@Paul, really? I thought I was the DOM around here chasing after teeny boppers.

@GGNYC: Sickem Girl!

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/20/11 at 01:16 AM

Happykat--very nice. Thanks! The Japanese Johnny Mathis!

Posted by Paul on 05/20/11 at 10:24 AM

Robb--pretty swell video from MMS. But one of the things that attracted me to Perfume was the quasi-cyberpunk nature of their videos and music. MMS one seemed almost country-western, in a weird Japanese way.

I noticed yesterday that the girls of Perfume played the girls of MMS at ping-pong on a Japanese TV show....

Posted by Paul on 05/20/11 at 10:28 AM

You are fascinated Paul! 😉

Expat, I had to think for a minute about what you meant, my first thought was Dominant. :lol:

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/20/11 at 01:10 PM

I am simultaneously intrigued, repulsed, awed and amused. Same predicament. Good stuff or pure fluff. Who knows. I suppose beauty is in the eye (or ear) of the beholder (or be-hear-er)

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