HEART STATION

A friend of mine, Rapha-chan, is a big fan of the ravex project, where many avex artists come together to celebrate the 20th anniversary of avex and the 80th anniversary of the artist, Osamu Tezuka. He showed me the PV of the song Golden LUV featuring Maki Goto, and ever since I first heard, I couldn’t stop listening to it.

When I had finished downloading her albums, I was expecting something really pop, because she used to be involved in Morning Musume and Hello!Project, so she had that idol figure to her that could only mean bubblegum pop. I was right, and even though her work is a lot better than the diabetes-inducing bubblegum pop we hear out there today, it lacked that element of originality and fun instrumentals that Golden LUV brought to the table.

Some time ago, Maki Goto’s brother was arrested for thievery, and this dropped her from her label, similar to Kumi’s scandal, but lighter. This brought Maki to Los Angeles, where she restarted her singing and dance lessons. Apparently, Maki’s parents trained her since she was a child to become a Japanese idol, and during this break that Maki took, she was signed with the avex label and a change in her image took place (Including a nose job, as you can see below):

That is the Maki from Golden LUV! She has 2 digital singles released through the avex label, fly away and Lady-Rise, plus Golden LUV, released through the ravex album, trax. Honestly, I was so happy she had that nose job. It was so hard to look at her. Her work is amazing now! avex did a great job, and I’m really looking forward for Maki’s new releases, because all her singles have been amazing ever since she changed her record label!

Bitches Aloud has put together a really cute unofficial single called GOLD Lady, which features Maki Goto’s latest singles and it comes in a CD and a CD+DVD version. The instrumentals and PVs aren’t in top quality, but the whole concept is really fun. It comes with 6 tracks: Golden LUV, Lady-Rise and Fly away. All of them are amazing and the registration to their forum is worth it! Especially since the digital singles have no cover art or things of that sort. It’s all really neat and the booklet that comes with each version is different, as if it were an official CD and CD+DVD release. Remember, if you’d like to distribute this single, you need to credit Bitches Aloud:

Also, brought to you by Bitches Aloud, so if taken, please credit Bitches Aloud or I’l personally rip off both of your arms and then I’ll eat them :D ^^ xD.

I’m really looking forward to other releases by Maki Goto under the avex label because she sounds and looks great! I love Fly away, so make sure to check out the PV and judge if Maki’s dance lessons payed off: