On the first day of 2022, , a YouTube channel that gets Japanese musicians to perform their hits in one go, posted a video of J-pop act SixTones performing their track, ¡°.¡± It¡¯s an elegant, stripped-down orchestral version of on Jan. 22, 2020.
Jan. 22, 2020 ... what¡¯s significant about that date? Ah, yes, six days earlier, Japan saw . As we now know, a pandemic can really put a spanner in the works of your group¡¯s national debut ¡ª even when you have a powerhouse like Johnny & Associates backing you.
Two years on and, while we¡¯re still worrying about COVID variants, we also have that First Take version of ¡°Imitation Rain¡± ¡ª from a group that came of age during a pandemic via a platform that took on increased levels of importance in the same period.
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