I was writing up the previous article on GACKT when I looked for the band Golden Bomber（ゴールデンボンバー）thinking that I had already put up their magnum opus "Memeshikute" (Unmanly) onto the blog. Well, as it turns out, that wasn't the case...actually up to now, the only song by them that I had included on KKP was their contribution to the anime "Ixion Saga DT". Big oops there!
And that was a big slip-up by me since "Memeshikute" had become an almost permanent fixture seemingly on NHK's Kohaku Utagassen. For a period of 4 years straight in the mid-2010s (2012-2015), Golden Bomber showed up like clockwork every New Year's Eve on the Shibuya stage to liven things up with the audience (although personally speaking, having a band come up to perform the same song over and over again was starting to wear on me).
Released by the Visual-kei air band as their 7th single in July 2009, "Memeshikute" sounded like a poke at the whole Herbivore Man phenomenon in Japan or maybe even a comical self-indictment of Visual-kei. Ironically, it was the hit that got Golden Bomber onto the big stage as it got up to No. 4 on Oricon, but on the Oricon weekly karaoke rankings, "Memeshikute" really showed its power by staying up at the top spot for 51 weeks straight, dethroning the former champions, AKB48 with their "Heavy Rotation" (48 weeks straight). "Memeshikute" first appeared on an album via the band's "Golden Best ~ Pressure" released in January 2010 which topped off at No. 28.
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