In Which Kokoro Explores the Mystery That is Perfume

I just don't get it.


They are three perfectly cute girls. Not terribly cute, not like MM cute, more like AKB48 cute. Their dance moves? Perfectly average. Not like MM dancing, more like AKB48 dancing. Their PVs? Entertaining, but pretty normal. Not like the older MM PVs, more like AKB48 PVs. Their singing? Completely average for an idol group. They don't have the random amazing singer like MM, more like AKB48 voices.

In fact, these three could all be a subgroup of AKB48. There isn't anything amazing about them visually or vocally. I never paid them much mind before.

But their music.... Holy crap!

It's so techno, it hurts. Their voices are masked by usual techno sound effects. There isn't one bit of real, honest instrumental in their songs. It's all generated by a computer or something. Their singing sounds like the vocaloids to me. It's like every single part of their music is synthesized.

They scream "ignore me!" in every way, and yet...

I can't stop listening!

I can't wrap my mind around it.

I used to hate this band. I couldn't bear to listen. But then the Kouhaku Uta Gassen revealed the errors of my ways.

I've been attached ever since.

I still think it would be impossible to dub because there's no way you can recreate such blatant techno effects, but I still feel the urge to sing along...!

The main suspects?


Chocolate Disco:




They're practically just singing the same two words over and over. It must be some sort of hypnotism.

And then Polyrhythm:



This is the one they performed at Kouhaku. Holy geez, it won't leave my brain!


And Twinkle Snow Powdery Snow:





So, yes.

An AKB48-status group with the addicting quality of Morning Musume.

I just don't get it.