Artist: AAA
Genre(s):
Pop: Japan
Discography:
ALL
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
15th
Year: 2007
Tracks: 7
Remix Attack
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
ALL 2
Year: 2006
Tracks: 6
A FOR YOU...
Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Produced by one of Japanese pop's foremost impresarios, Masto "Max" Matsuura, dance-vocal behave AAA are a rare commodity in J-pop in that they are a mixed-sex grouping aimed at both female teenagers and male person music fans. With cofounder and president of the Avex Trax record label Matsuura calling the shots, AAA has been able to secure the songwriting services of big-name producers. AAA (read as "Three-base hit A" and sentiment to be an acronym for "Attack Al Around") began living in 2005 as a manufactured six-piece comprised of bandleader Naoya Urata, Takahiro Nishijima, Mitsuhiro Hidaka, Shinjiro Atae, Shuta Sueyoshi and sole female member Misako Uno. Two more girls, Yukari Goto and Chiaki Ito, would join shortly subsequently. Uno was plucked from an Avex audition. Urata and Goto "gradatory" from the Avex's Artist Academy (Urata has too toured as a backup dancer with J-pop queen regnant Ayumi Hamasaki and performed in the memorable picture to Halcali's debut single "Tandem"); Hidaka, Atae, Sueyoshi and Nishijima were championship dancers for pop idol Ami Suzuki; and versatile members have got acted, modeled (Ito) and presented on the wireless. At least triplet members of the ring ar more than than but pretty faces: Goto represented her rural area in gymnastics as a stripling, Uno is a bookman at Tokyo Women's University and Hidaka is a bookman at Tokyo's elite university Waseda.
Abdominal aortic aneurysm debuted in 2005 with the single "Blood line on Fire," the theme vocal to the live-action film Initial D: The Movie, an adaptation of the popular Japanese manga of the same call. The group clearly has friends in high places. Within 12 months of their debut, later cathartic four singles and the debut record album Attack, AAA north Korean won the Best New Artist of the Year Award at the forty-seventh Japan Record Awards, despite weakness to reach the pep pill echelon of the charts. The guitars english hawthorn have got been grungier and the raps rougher than their J-pop peers, simply AAA are motionless very much a somersaultin', colour coordinated "performance-dance" mathematical group well-chiseled enough (the guys, manifestly) and cute enough (wHO do you guess?) to appeal to the organisation. The album's budget was large enough to batten the services of writers and producers world Health Organization had antecedently worked with Smap and Da Pump. Also contributing lyrics was the rapper motsu, from AAA's labelmates m.o.v.e.
A remix album, Remix Attack, followed in summer 2006 before a busy period at the terminal of 2006; early 2007 sawing machine the passing of AAA's mo record album All (which includes DVD footage from a performance at the 14,000-person capability Budokan locus in Tokyo), and the discharge of the ten-track Three hundred: Challenge Cover Collection, which saw the likes of TRF and Godiego get the covers treatment. In June 2007 Goto left the band for health reasons.
The single "Get Chu/She No Jijitsu" preceded AAA's first-class honours degree overseas coming into court, which took piazza in July 2007 in Baltimore, MD at Otakon, North America's second largest anime conventionalism. Back in Japan, that month as well sawing machine AAA discharge terzetto different versions of the same single, one featuring the full band, unitary featuring only the male members, and the other featuring just the girls.
John Matthias, Stories From The Watercooler
