oh oh, we're in trouble
http://neojaponisme.com/2007/10/04/boybands/
this is definitely a "don't even fucking discuss it" issue in the "biz". totally "taboo". video link. video link. pretty fucking revolting, if you ask me.
their production methods were in line with methods applied by phil spector (huh? do i see a connection here?) and motown in the 60's, manufacture or die. i knew a guy that used to engineer these songs and what happens is, the songs come in and are performed and recorded, belt conveyer style, and i mean shitloads of songs, not like we'll take 3 months to do an album, more like 3 days. then after the "karaoke" is complete, the songs are assigned singers. the running joke amongst those in the trenches is how much work one had to go through to make these songs presentable or, what your fake name was on the credits (some "credible" guys did these sessions to pay the bills). the vocal fixing was prior to auto-tune, protools dudes. so none of that cher shit. so it's eventide, ams, varispeed. fuck, i don't see them anymore, but there was this really useful thing called a "vocal selector" in tokyo studios. made by a company called current or was it studio system labs. and you only saw the vocal selector in japan (and i've been to big studios in the us and uk). the vocal selector did just that. helped you go through the masses of vocals. and it of course sync'd to smpte (aka timecode), japanese anal perfection, as always. you had to go as far as syllables at times, eat your heart out, roy thomas baker. worked wonders with the ssl and sony pcm3348. oh the good old days of tape.
taboo i knoe, but since i am in a complete "i don't fucking care what you do to me" mode, i just had to post it. the world is getting flatter, day by day. amazing. right on. big ups and whatever trendy prop word you want to use.
otherwise, i am moving my blog back to my domain and whatever i post here will probably not be thought related.
oh oh, we're in trouble. shampoo
sold a million, them. i woz after them when they were on icerink (boufant headbutt, wunnit, prob have some copy in some stinky cardborad box), talked to the managaer on the phone (pre internet, dude) and was told "we're going major, darling". if you play your cards right, tiny masters of today have a chance at the same kind of slot, but let's not burn out. if they're big in japan, buy me din din, r.
update: found boufant headbutt
they had a single before this, never could buy it.