Jpop: Berryz Kodo - Love together

So here is the final PV from jpop idols Berryz Kodo, a melancolic but smiling farewell to the fans, a song that will be included in the final CD Box released on wednesday.

• Berryz Kodo - Love together

Kpop/Jpop: SNSD/Girl's Generation - Beep Beep

And finally...here is the full version of the Japanese single "Beep Beep" from (Korean supergroup) SNSD/Girl's generation. My 95%-correct theorem that kpop groups releases sub-par songs in Japan still holds (whatever other people may say), but this one is at least OK and all the cuteness makes me give it a chance.

• SNSD - Beep Beep

Kpop/Jpop: After School - Heaven

Their latest japanese release, the PV of "Heaven" begins painfully trashy with After School reusing their pole dancing number from "First Love" in a very silly way and then it looks like they are workers at a red light district. But then I begin to notice the track. It is a soft disco song that grows steadily on you and in the end this song and video meshes so well (the detachedness of the song refining the thrashiness of the video to something meaningful) that it may prove to mark one of the most memorable songs of AS. And it is not often I hear a kpop act translate that well to the jpop scene, but AS has done it here.

• After School - Heaven