ゴールデンボンバー 令和 GOLDEN BOMBER REIWA

   As we already know, Japan had a new Emperor (第126代天皇 徳仁 Emperor Naruhito) on 1 st May, 2019 and 令和 Reiwa is the name of the new era.

   令和 Reiwa are the kanji (Chinese characters) from 万葉集 (manyoushuu), an anthology of 和歌 (waka) poetry from 奈良時代 Nara period (AD 710 - 794). This was the period when many Chinese cultures (Tang Dynasty Chinese writings , fashion, Chinese Buddhism, pottery, etc)  were imported to Japan. This was also the period when poetries were wiritten in 万葉仮名 (manyougana) - Chinese characters were used to represent the Japanese language phonetically , rather than representing the meanings, so for Chinese readers reading manyougana , it wouldn't make any sense in meaning because the Japanese pronunciations of these Chinese characters were used to represent the Japanese words with the same pronunciations.


   Anyway, this is the first Jpop song with the title 令和 Reiwa, performed by visual kei air rock band Golden Bomber. None of the members actually play any musical instruments , thus air rock!

   Notice the time machine used in the video is modelled after Doraemon's time machine.

ゴールデンボンバーやんややんやNight ～踊ろよ東京～ アモ－レ GOLDEN BOMBER DANCE TOKYO , AMORE

Golden Bomber is one of my favourite Japanese Pop/Rock groups. I like their rhythm and dance moves (more like physical expression) , and the humour in their acts. The group name is sometimes shorten as 金爆(kin baku or Gold bombing / explosion) . It is a visual  air guitar rock/pop indie group started in 2004. Despite being an Indie group, they do break into the mainstream pop chart like the Oricon at top places (first position) . Many mainstream larger labels want them but the group rejected them all to remain under an independent label Eucid Agency (label Zany Zap). Current members are :

鬼龍院 翔（Kiryuuin Shou  ; vocal, song / lyrics writer ）
喜矢武 豊（Kyan Yutaka guitar ）
歌広場 淳（本名 高山 淳 ;  Utahiroba Jun  , real name Takayama Jun base）
樽美酒 研二（Darvish Kenji ; drum ） All of them are currently in their 30s , with  Darvish Kenji (the one with sad-eye make-up) being the oldest.

For those who wonder if they are gay. There is no news or info. that suggests they are . The group is just androgynes like David Bowie , Steve Tyler , etc.  They like to wear makeup just like most popular Korean idols and Jpop artist such as Gackt who , incidentally , is 鬼龍院 翔（Kiryuuin Shou ) 's idol.  歌広場 淳（Utahiroba Jun) actually married to his 2-year girlfriend in 2016. They just like to do funny gayish acts in their videos.

A mentioned , they are a visual "air guitar" rock/pop group, I think only the main singer 鬼龍院 翔（Kiryuuin Shou  ) plays some instruments , others just act playing instruments in the videos and concerts,BUT  I am not 100% sure that they don't play any instruments, so may be they do in real life.   Not only is the music but also the visual acts that attract the fans.  Songs and lyrics are written by 鬼龍院 翔（Kiryuuin Shou  ).

These are some of my favourites for this year release (2017)

I particularly enjoy the incorporation of the Indian sitar (3:09) in the song.




アモ－レ  Amore (I think this is Italian , it means love / lover , etc)

WARNING:

This video has some gay suggestive contents but it is funny , I call this "comedy pop" . Golden Bomber 's PVs usually have some comical dramatic contents.

歌広場 淳（Utahiroba Jun, the one with a blue tie in the above video)  married to his 2-year girlfriend in 2016.


The mother (or grandmother) in the video throws-up when she sees two guys doing dirty dancing, I thought that was funny ~~

鬼龍院 翔（Kiryuuin Shou ) is the only live person I saw who can do these eyes~~ (3:23) , that funny sad looks cracks me up ~~~~





2016

水商売をやめてくれないか




This one is more punk rock (2016)




This one is from 2014



From 2012, また君に番号を聞けなかった can't even ask you your telephone number.

WARNING : There are some gay suggestive contents but it is funny. I just like Japanese comedy.