We’re built different!
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And we can mod anything the way we like it 
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Glad to see she’s back! And I think the new format suits her well. I’m looking forward to some of the new videos - the live musical snippet towards the end was great.
Definitely picked up on that and so happy to see it. She looks genuinely happy! And I’m heartened to see the acceptance among this crowd. We should all be free to wear the glasses that fit best.
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Honestly, if gender has any effect on how you play a bass, I’ve yet to see it. Still happy to see Lobster happy an in a good place. Which matters more to me actually than the glasses. Though she would have looked better in a pair of cheap sunglasses.
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I was fully chuffed to see the lobster back in play. not only is the info typically spot-on, i also think Happiness can be real hard to find in this life. If she has found her path and it feels right to her, i celebrate this!
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Not sure if I completely agree with this or not. I’m trying awful hard to play as well as Tina Weymouth, but it isn’t happening.
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Maybe get better glasses?
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Haha yes it’s possible the girls leave us guys in the dust on this one. I had not considered this. They are certainly killing it here in Japan.
I see Fami and her double thumb technique and I’m like whaaaat.
That’s actually pretty common. Juna Serita does it too on “What is hip?”, F-Chopper does it, etc. It might be the primary form of slap here as far as I know.
Not that I can do it.
I know it’s common now, I first picked up on it on Alien Alien by Fami, but Juna and Koga just emphasize that the ladies are slaying it. Always been a Tomo fan too for the groove (though she doesn’t have the fireworks)
Of course there’s lots of great male bassists here too (the majority though you don’t hear most of them overseas much), but the women are disproportionately standing out compared to other regions, sure.
Of course, Bassist Boh
Ano has a good bassist, but like a lot of Jpop/Idol musicians they go uncredited so hard to follow their work.
Easily the majority are male but even so proportionally it seems way way different here. Just searching turns up a more diverse gender mix than if you restricted to famous US musicians. No idea why, my theory is the more serious emphasis on music education here.
Scandal once said that music is one of the few acceptable avenues in Japan for women to have a voice, and that’s why they started the band. They were in dance school. Hanabie was in high school listening to Maximum the Hormone and said we can do that. Mina is self taught. That’s what I know of their origin stories.
hahahaha ONYD
But yeah there’s the Quagmire factor too. The internet loves Japanese girls and so a lot of them get boosted for all the wrong reasons.
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Giggidy
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Glad I found this
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