How to use Sexy
April 20, 2008
Artist: 後藤真希 (Goto Maki)
Title: How to use Sexy
Release Date: September 19th, 2007
How to Use Sexy was by far the best album put out by a Hello! Project soloist and the best album produced under the Hello! Project umbrella in a couple years. Goto Maki is an extraordinarily talented singer and dancer (as well as actress!) and this album, How to use Sexy, was an amazing end to her time with Hello! Project, though so many hearts were broken when she left. She claimed that the vision she had for her career and what Up-Front Agency expected of her career did not agree and graduated, disappearing into Japan for months until very recently.
Her blog reopened on March 25th and she has been writing in it daily ever since, telling fans about voice and dance training she has been getting in the US! She has traveled around the western US from Las Vegas to Los Angeles to Hawaii, taking it all completely in and embracing it. It seems she could be preparing for some kind of entrance back into her career as an idol but nothing is confirmed yet.
To celebrate the return of Goto Maki, here are a couple audios–How to Use Loneliness and City Wind– and a RAR of the entire album.
How to use Loneliness
City Wind
1st GAM～甘い誘惑～
April 15, 2008
Artist: ギャム (GAM – Great Aya and Miki)
Title: 1st GAM～甘い誘惑～ (Amai Yuuwaku)
Release Date: May 23, 2007
1st GAM～甘い誘惑～ is the first (and possibly only) album by GAM, Matsuura Aya and Fujimoto Miki. In my opinion, it’s one of the best Albums Hello! Project has produced in at least a couple years, surpassed only by one other (which I’ll write about later!). What makes this album and this duo work is the bond between Miki and Aya. Because they are so close, they do not try to outshine each other or compete. Instead, they really enjoy creating music together and it shows through in this album 100%.
Here are a couple audios– 愛の船 (Ai no Fune) and 愛情オアシス (Aizyou Oasys)– and a RAR of the entire album.
Ai no Fune
Aizyou Oasys
