It's been a while since I posted anything by the dynamic contemporary aidoru (or should I say song and dance?) group TOKYO GIRLS' STYLE（東京女子流）, and I was surprised to realize that it's been a dozen years since I put up their first KKP article for their "Partition Love". They have had the lasting power of any of the alphabet aidoru groups and Morning Musume（モーニング娘。）, but I've just read on their J-Wiki article that their show's going to be ending this year.
Their 35th and most recent single as of this writing was released in June 2025. "Doukasen, Flashback" (Fuse, Flashback) is a fairly smoking and funky tune which sounds like something that was arranged in a K-Pop vein. Written and composed by Umi Kinami（きなみうみ）, there is a certain nocturnal panther-like quality to this one. Strangely enough, I had been under the impression that there were a lot of members in TGS so to see just the four on the cover of the single was a bit jarring, but actually it's only been one member that had dropped out from the original five.
TOKYO GIRLS' STYLE seem to be doing their best to imitate a K-pop style, but I think recent groups like 'Hana' and 'TEAM' (especially their FIREWORK song) do a much better job at sounding like K-pop.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, my knowledge of K-Pop isn't all that good. I can only get a sense of what TGS is doing is reminiscent of the genre.
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