much ado about puffy

[Miles Wood]

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From: "ander025" <ander025 at umn.edu>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: much ado about puffy


> Puffy certainly aren't alternative artists. Neither are they idols on the
> old model of Matsuda Seiko or the newer model of Amuro Namie and Speed.

They recently contributed to the Guitar Wolf tribute CD (along with 
kinejapan listmember Jim O'Rourke) and the Puffy tribute CD included 
contributions from various Japanese indie/garage rock/punk bands. So they 
get respect from their peers. Yet they get to sing themes to anime shows, 
make fairly typical idol video, get made into dolls, and pose for 
photobooks. You could say they have both markets covered, but as Aaron said 
there popualrity appears to be declining, though perhaps this was just an 
inevitability. I saw them live once and in way they suffered from being 
neither appearing serious indie music nor blatantly commercial j-pop, which 
is not to say artists should confirm to one or the other. Heck, music is 
music.

To bring discussion back OT: The mention of the cartoon is interesting as 
it's very easy to imagine, tho' I guess that's due to the drawings that have 
appeared on some of their CD covers which projects them as characters rather 
than people. Have either of the girls made any crossovers into film? It's 
wonder they weren't cast in one of the recent-ish MOTHRA trilogy!

Miles