Tag: musical/choreography

  • Best of VMA’09

    Hmmm… I couldn’t find any other non-YouTube video of Janet’s tribute to Michael, sadly this one has an audio error at least for me… but it will have to do for the time being.

    *re-post*

  • More Experiment Awards’ Warm-up

    It’s 35 films this year! Woohoo! Well, not much to celebrate since some of those were really REALLY bad, but they count for the movie countdown~~~
    In the meantime, I’ve decided to put my list of Best 2001 films.

    It was really difficult to choose some, as I seem to not have seen many 2001 films, so many of my nominees are the same as the Oscar, I feel. Remembering the films made me remember about the first time I actively waited for the Oscar. I mean, the event in itself was something I did, but that year was the year I said I’m gonna watch the Oscar to see who will win. American Beauty won that year, as did Kevin Spacey and The Matrix. 1999 Films, wow~~~ I was 13 going on 14.

    Anyway~ without further ado~~~

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  • Music Video Director: Nigel Dick

    I was looking back on music videos this past weekend (which, by the way marked amy-wong.com’s 4th anniversary) because I was watching Michael Jackson music videos and thinking “wow, how come I don’t like watching music videos now” – at least I don’t watch videos of most music I listen to in English, though I’m generally impressed with Asian Pop Music Videos.

    When I was little, well… a pre-teen and teenage girl fuzzing about the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears with my friends at school, I began to notice director’s names. MTV (which I pretty much used to watch almost 24/7) used to show the Name of the Song + Name of the Artist + Name of Album + Name of Director. They did this until the beginning of 2002 or 2003 when the Director’s name suddenly disappeared from the credits. I dunno if it’s back, and I dunno if it was because I just went to Canada. LOL

    One of the first names I noticed was, of course, Nigel Dick.

    If I could describe Nigel Dick’s style of music-video-making when I was a kid, I would say “simply brilliant” – not because I was naive and didn’t really know much about the business, but because his videos were simple, but yet so full of life. Perhaps, the easiest way to show it is with a simple video such as Oasis’ Wonderwall.

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  • Yu Aoi – Fan First Year!!!

    WOOOOOO!! A freakin’ year~~~~

    Yu Aoi - Year One

    Today a year ago, I was introduced to Yu Aoi’s work on Shunji Iwai’s All About Lily Chou Chou, and the Shunji Iwai-related Rainbow Song. Little did I know that the characters that interested me the most in the films were played by the same actress. Nine days later, I watched Hula Girls, and a month later I was completely hooked with Yu Aoi, and yet another Shunji Iwai film… Hana & Alice.

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  • Yu Aoi – Natsuichi 2007 – Bunny Ears CM for Shueisha Publishing

    Hmm… debating on what movie I should write about next. Need some time to ponder~~

    In the meantime…

    I’ll leave you with this cute CM for Shueisha, with the little kiddo with the bunny ears!!! Wahhhhhh, bunnies!!! I want those bunny ears hahaha. Oh yeah, also… Yu dances. I love it when she dances~~~ xD

    https://youtu.be/K_rLpVUMfsE

    Hana & Alice – Arabesque
    Hula Girls
    Hana & Alice – Not exactly dancing… but Relaxation method!!! LOL

    kotoba, kotoba koto no ha
    tada kotoba ga narande iru dake nanoni
    sore wa namida o kobosaseru
    sore wa ikite ikoukanatte kimochi ni saseru
    sore wa atataka katari suru tada kotoba ga
    narande iru dake nanda kedo
    kotoba, kotoba koto no ha
    natsu no owari ni sabishiku naru ryuu ga wakatta
    kanashi sugite warattari suru ryuu ga wakatta
    natsu ichiban, natsuichi
    natsu ichiban, natsuichi
    watashi wa sekai o tabisuru
    kotoba o tsurete
    watashi wa watashi o tabisuru
    kotoba o tsurete
    itsuka deau anata ni
    itsuka deau sono toki
    anata ni ageru kotoba o sagasou

  • Something “Popular” to Cheer You Up!

    I just found this~~~

    The Go! Team’s Huddle Formation WB’s Popular Fan-vid xD

    I never realized how much dancing was featured on the show~~ April Tuna and Mary Cherry kill me with theirs though.

  • Natalie Portman is an Elephant! And other Sesame Street Presentations

    TotalFilm.com has ranked Natalie as one of their best Sesame Street appearances xD Yes, the one with the elephant… cute as a button. I always thought Sesame Street (aka. Plaza Sesamo) was a pretty good kid’s show… and I always thought Elmo was cute, plus! he doesn’t speak like a stupid Teletubbie. “nuff said.

    [iframe width=”480″ height=”390″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/4y-b9cjaxVs?rel=0″]

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  • Full BackStreet Boys Unbreakable Concert Review

    Okay, if you haven’t read the Quickie one, do so here –

    I needed some time to find the setlist, which I couldn’t really find so you’ll have to rely on my memory and how it connects the online videos of the concert. Lucky for you, Wikipedia did a fairly good job… I think.

    Here’s the songs that were played:

    1. Larger than Life/Everyone/Any Other Way
    2. You Can Let Go/Unmistakable/I Want it that Way
    3. She’s like the Sun – Howie’s Solo
    4. Show me the Meaning of Being Lonely
    5. More than That
    6. Spanish Eyes
    7. Trouble Is
    8. Incomplete
    9. Drive by Love – AJ’s Solo
    10. Panic
    11. Blow your Mind/I Got You – Nick’s Solo
    12. Quit Playin’ Games (With my Heart)/As Long as You Love Me/All I Have to Give
    13. Nunca te Hare Llorar/I’ll Never Break your Heart
    14. Inconsolable
    15. Welcome Come – Brian’s Solo
    16. The One/Treat me Right/The Call
    17. Everybody
    18. Shape of my Heart (Encore)

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  • Yu Aoi Film Discussion – HURA GARU – Hula Girls

    This film discussion doesn’t come until after the Honey & Clover live action movie, but I thought it will be good to post this now since Cinemax Latin America is showing the film this December and January (and perhaps scattered February, check times here).

    This was probably the third film I saw of Yu, I was most impressed with the fact that Asians could move their booties like that… call it my Latin American gene that told me that the Asian gene makes you unfit to dancing. xD

    Here’s the 12-part video on YouTube. Or just wait for it on cable…

    A little about the film:
    (from Wikipedia)
    It’s a 2006 Japanese-award-winning film based on true events of a small coal mining town facing the shut down of the mine, and looking at the loss of +2000 jobs. While all the grownups seemed to be fuzzing about the future of their coal-legacy, a young group of girls see a gleam of hope in the opening of The Hawaiian Center, and hula dancing.

    Genre: Drama, Comedy and dancing!
    Starring: Yasuko Matsuyuki, Etsushi Toyokawa, Yu Aoi, Eri Tokunaga, Shoko Ikezu & Shizuyo Yamazaki
    Duration: 2hrs

    Spoilers ahead, you’ve been warned.

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  • Dango San Kyou Dai

    When I watched Memories of Matsuko, there was one scene when Matsuko’s life was already going to the gutters, she was lying on the garbage bags, and she was watching TV. I immediately recognized the song as an Okaasan to Issho song… today I decided to look for it, and found it!

    Okaasan to Issho 1999 song, at first I thought it was a Takoyaki Mambo song, but I was lucky enough to find it on a website listing all the songs. Video and Romaji after the break!
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