Sunday, May 10, 2015

Visual Kei "Air Rock"

Any of us who can conjure up an image of Japanese pop music would probably think of the hyper-cute girl groups in frilly clothes (has anyone heard of kyary pamyu pamyu?) but I happened upon a group that has a rather strange premise. Golden Bomber exists in the genre "visual kei" which looks kind of like a modern edgy glam rock, but that isn't the strange thing. Golden Bomber is an "air rock" band, meaning only one member actually plays any instrument at all.

The rest of the band simply pretends to sing and play along to prerecorded tracks by studio musicians. Despite this, they have managed to garner quite a following.
 Here is their most popular song, Memeshikute:

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