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Girls vs Boys- J-pop

Haven't done one of these in a while, the last one was in June, and the last J-pop themed Girls vs Boys was in 2013! Today's it between Japanese girl group E-girls and boyband THE RAMPAGE from EXILE TRIBE.


Note:  Avex videos are now blocked from being shown on third party applications. If you click on the videos you can watch them fine on YouTube. :)

E-girls My Way

For my first post on E-girls (who are the sister unit of EXILE) visit this link: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2016/11/more-j-pop-acts.html

In 2017 E-girls changed their line-up and there are now 11 members instead of  the original 19. Also they are part of the larger collective E.G. Family, which consists mainly of female members.


This is My Way featuring Japanese reggae groups FIRE BALL and MIGHTY CROWN  and dance/electro group PKCZ®. It was released in August and is a reggae type song. I'm not sure if this is the full song.






THE RAMPAGE- HARD HIT

RAMPAGE are part of the supergroup EXILE TRIBE, which is also made up of EXLE, EXILE THE SECOND, J Soul Brothers,  GENERATIONS and a couple of others. E-girls (see above are EXILE's sister group).

The band was formed in 2014 and EXILE's Vocal Battle Audition 4, and is made up of 16 members- leaders LIKIYA  (full name Elliot Likiya)  and Zin (Sakamoto Zin) RIKU (full name Ayoama Riku), Kawamura Kazuma,Kamiya Kenta, Yonamine Rui., Ryu (full name Ata Ryutaro), Yamamato Shogo, Iwaya Shogo (no relation, they have the same first name since the surname is first), Suzuki Takahide, Fujiwara Itsuki,Goto Takuma, Urakawa Shohei, Takechi Kaisei, Yoshino Hokuto and Hasegawa Makoto.*



Several of THE RAMPAGE members are mixed race, which I think is cool since I'm also mixed (English and Cameroonian). :) LIKIYA  is the young brother of ELLY from J Soul Brothers, and they are Japanese and black, maybe part African American but I'm not sure), Rui is said to be Filipino, American and British), according to his Wikia page and Ryu's mum is Spanish and Filipina.

The group officially debuted in early 2017 with the release of their debut single Lightning. 5 singles have followed- Frontiers, Dirty Disco, 100 Degrees, Fandango and HARD HIT. Their debut album THE RAMPAGE was released on 12th September.

This is HARD HIT which was released in June. This isn't the full song (the record company Avex tends not to post full ones, to get you to but the music video DVDs!).




For more on THE RAMPAGE check out these links:

Official sites:

https://m.tribe-m.jp/artist/index/43?m=rampage_bus2016

https://www.ldh.co.jp/eng/management/the_rampage/

Official FB: https://www.facebook.com/THE-RAMPAGE-from-EXILE-TRIBE-1721846518030505/

Wikia page (Wikia sometimes slow down my computer): http://exile-tribe.wikia.com/wiki/THE_RAMPAGE

One Hallyu thread:  https://onehallyu.com/topic/460903-%E2%9A%A1get-ready-to-rampage-official-the-rampage-from-exile-tribe-thread%E2%9A%A1/


Who is your favourite? :)


Want more J-pop? Check out this post:

J-pop Round-up 2018: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/10/j-pop-round-up-2018.html

*These are Japanese names, so the surname is first.

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