Recently, J-pop too often produces sound which sound ehm too ehm generic. This is caused by two big factors. First of all, generic sound is easier on the ear and better on the cheque. Rule that rules everywhere. Secondly, many J-pop bands are rather selling their singers – usually to middle-aged men 🤢 – than their music. Originality, therefore, ceases to be a primary goal of the industry. Not for Wednesday Campanella. Their music is an unicorn in the over-sexualised and under-focused industry. ‘Ikkyu-San’ is not a love song. It’s a crush song. Japanese equivalent of Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen. KOM_I cannot take her eyes of the mysterious Ikkyu-San and we cannot stop listening to this homage.
Euphony 