今年の紅白歌合戦

I finished watching the 56th annual Kouhaku the other day and unfortuantely the guys won this year. Maybe I never noticed it before but this year lots of musicians sang old songs: Nakashima Mika, TM Revolution, Hitoto You, Shimatani Hitomi to name a few. And ahem, who's THIS PERSON? She He She He THAT PERSON [or Gorie, as he/she calls him/herself] is [almost] the scariest thing I've ever seen. He/She was on the red side so I guess it's sorta safe to call him/her a SHE. Though underneath the SHE he's a HE and... ahh... I don't keep up with the pop/drama news so he/she just caught me off guard.

Year by year, it looks like Hamasaki Ayumi's been improving on her live performances lol! She wasn't out of breath AND she danced a bit! Also, I found out that Hikawa Kiyoshi can't dance! I couldn't stop laughing during his performance when he was attempting at [happy] dancing... ah well, at least his singing is still top notch. Kouda Kumi's performance was pretty awsome, though I kinda stopped listening to her stuff a while back so none of her stuff rung a bell. BoA's hairdoo was pretty cool. You know, the 'one side of the head is braided'-style? It looked good on her, surprisingly. There were more hip hop/rap wannabe groups that showed up this year -- D-51 (not D12? :b), Def Tech, ... oh, m-flo also showed up this year and they sung "HEY!" with Akiko Wada which was kinda weirrrrd. w-inds, aiko, TOKIO and CHEMISTRY return this year; nothing special. :b And more and more weirdo groups are getting popular: "Kishidan" who always has someone rip off his wig every Kouhaku appearance, "Group Tamashii" sung a song called "I'll buy you juice" LOL, apparently it was a theme some for some anime. OH, I only found out about DEPAPEPE recently but they showed up for like 2 minutes to do a guitar performance (duh!) but yay! they got screentime so that's all that matters! Now if only they sang, they could beat the living crap outta that other group -- WaT!

I conclude this review by reconfirming: SMAP CAN'T SING!