Today, 30 September 2026, was for some reason an absolute collision of several singles by bands which I either listen to on the regular or just generally appreciate.

We’ll start with the one mentioned in yesterday’s post, mM7th’s newly rerecorded and released ｢エメトワ｣ aka «Aime Toi» aka “Love Yourself” [and yes, all that was just so I could use all the different quotation marks]:

It’s a fun video and the re-recording of the song does a lot to help the parts that already shine shine just a bit brighter. Originally the vocal mix felt a bit off compared to their other tracks but now when the Bridge/Chorus hits and eventually band members are chanting “One Day!” it works quite well.

There was also a new song by Pami, “Loser,” which is the video used in the graphic at the top of this page. The lyrics are a bit obvious but the video is anything but. I assume it is a metaphor. For what? Like, look… that feels personal.

It might win for best new video for today which is apparently a stacked category.

THEN, there was Nanajuuhachi’s “Half & Half” which is good song but the video will introduce you to “bedazzled pizza” and I tell you… kids these days, amirite?

I saw that Sezko had a new single coming which turned out to be a whole EP and then a video drop for “Honestly” which means there is only one more song without a video from the EP [which I expect around November(?) when the rest of it hits].

Finally, from today’s drops, alone [but wait, there’s literally more as I found out before I could click submit, see below] we have Froukje’s “Geen Rem” which, if nothing else, can act as a warning as to why you don’t use an eating contest to flirt. Two reasons, really. This is from an album that comes out in about three or four days so look forward to me chatting more about it, then.

NOW, going back just a little bit we have…

  • [one day ago] Lee Emi’s “Destroy Everything” and like I told Kaz having someone sing about the Devil telling them to destroy everything is fun and all but it would be a much worse conversation to have on a bus.
  • [four days ago] Cephalo’s “Bougainvillea” which is a nice song with a video in the always venerable “Blue tinted scene of Japanese woman by body of water” camp and finally, speaking of blue…
  • [five days ago] Mulasaki Ima & muque’s “Blue Cheese” which, and I say this with zero irony, does not actually feature as much blue cheese as it could have featured. Thank you. Might have done me in.

And we had other stuff like Olivia Rodrigo teasing the new Amazon exclusive reimagined-singles album, whoever is running the Oliver Tree account releasing the 3-in-1 “Remarkable Life of Cornelius Cummings” video, AND Mrs. Green Apple promoting their recent entire album.

The last one has a cute little green apple as you hover over the seek bar…

It’s only been one week since the new Brandy Senki song hit. Is this something to do with the new fiscal year? Prices of digital singles going up tomorrow?

No clue, but at least have lots of music to…

…..and, I kid you not, after I started typing this… Harha just released the “Teen Love” video to build up to the release of their first album. Good lord.

This feels like a record.

No pun intended.

Anyhow, I might be get off the internet for a bit before a dozen new tracks get released I get stuck for another few hours.