AKB48′s newest music video throws the girls to the wolves but it looks like the pop idol group still has a little bit of fight in them.
The teaser music video for AKB48′s newest single Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai hit the airwaves and the girls will be fighting for their lives when the single drops i stores on May 20th. Keishi Ohtomo, best known for his work on movies including Rurouni Kenshin and Hagetaka, took on the directorial reigns to challenge the girls to a high budget and fiercely acrobatic fight scene.
Haraka Shimazaki of AKB48 shares “After watching the final cut of the music video I was impressed by the amazing world created for the song, it was unlike anything I had ever experienced before. The hardships I faced through training for the video had melted away.”
The full line up for the music video includes; Ryoka Oshima, Nana Owada, Nana Okada, Yuki Kashiwagi, Rena Kato, Rina Kawaei, Saya Kawamoto, Yuria Kizaki, Haruna Kojima, Mako Kojima, Juri Takahashi, Minami Takahashi, Yuuka Tano, Ikumi Nakano, Minami Minegishi, Mion Mukaichi, Tomu Muto, Yui Yokoyama, Mayu Watanabe, and the debut of Nagisa Sakaguchi of AKB48, Rina Ikoma of Nogizaka46, Ryoha Kitagawa, Akari Suda, Jurina Matsui, Rena Matsui, and Sae Miyazawa of SKE48, Sayaka Yamamoto and Miyuki Watanabe of NMB48, Haruka Kodama, Rino Sashihara, and Sakura Miyawaki of HKT48.
AKB48 is a Japanese idol girl group named after the Akihabara area of Tokyo where the group’s primary theater is located. AKB48′s producer, Yasushi Akimoto, had envisioned the group as the girl next door and sought to form a group with their own theatre featuring daily performances in order for fans to see shows year-round. The concept of “idols you can meet” evolved into a rotating roster of teams and sister groups able to hold simultaneous performances at events around Japan and the world with the recent expansion of AKB48′s international sister groups in China and Indonesia.
The group is one of the highest-earning musical performers in Japan, with 2013 sales of over $128 million, and has been characterized as a social phenomenon. As of March 2014 the group has sold over 30 million records, including over 28.78 million singles as of May 2014, the second-highest musical act in Japan in the number of singles sold and the highest by a girl group. AKB48′s twenty-three latest singles have topped the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart, with a record twenty singles selling over a million copies.
Pada tahun 2012, karir Carly Rae Jepsen melesat dengan lagunya berjudul “Call Me Maybe” yang menjadi hit di seluruh dunia. Di Jepang sendiri, albumnya bertajuk “Kiss“, yang berisi lagu “Call Me Maybe” telah terjual sekitar 350.000 copy. Salah seorang artis Jepang bernama Rola adalah penggemar lagu tersebut. Ia lalu disaksikan oleh jutaan orang setelah menampilkan video cover dari lagu “Call Me Maybe” di YouTube. Kini dalam video khusus untuk lagu terbaru Carly yang berjudul “I Really Like You,” mereka akan tampil bersama.
