Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Favorite J-pop Singles: Nakayama Miho and WANDS / Sekaijuu no Dare Yori Kitto

Watching this live video the other night, I was surprised to realize that I hadn't written up something in honor of this awesome single earlier, and in fact, I had to go through my pages one by one to make sure I didn't, 'cause I sure THOUGHT I did!


Taking the solid rock beats and vocalising of group WANDS (whom I've written about before here) and adding the sweet, sweet vocals of petite Miss Nakayama, and you had SUCH an INSPIRED winning combination! Already known to me just by word of mouth, I finally got to see a MUSIC STATION performance of this song, and MAN, was I hooked! The band sounded great, but of course what really sold it was cute li'l Miho, and she had this certain stance that she took during this song, one foot in front of the other, arms crossed and gently bumping along with the rhythm of the tune...!
I've gotten quite a few performances of Miho doing this song since, and it's neat that she takes that killer pose in each and every one of them! Not to mention lookin' pretty as heck!