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The Maki Goto thread (IV)
MAKI GOTO'S 4TH THREAD Maki Goto is a J-pop singer-songwriter currently under the avex sublabel Rhythm Zone. Before joining Avex, she was a soloist under Hello! Project and a member of the all girl idol group, Morning Musume. In 1999, Maki Goto was selected as the only member for the 3rd generation of Morning Musume. Their first single after Goto joined, "Love Machine" sold over a million copies, over nine times the amount of copies they had sold for their previous single. During her time in Morning Musume she was one of the founding members of Petitmoni and she started a solo singing career in 2001 with the single "Ai no Bakayarō". Until her graduation from Morning Musume she was one of the leading vocalists in most of the songs released. Post-graduation she has mostly concentrated on her solo career and occasionally on limited time Hello! Project units such as Gomattou, Nochiura Natsumi, and DEF.DIVA. As time has passed, she has increasingly concentrated on acting in addition to singing. She has also performed at the Asia song festival 2005 in Pusan, Korea to represent Japan. On October 28, 2007, during the last concert of her G-Emotion II ~How to Use Sexy~ tour, Goto suddenly announced to fans that she would be graduating from Hello! Project, though she was also leaving UpFront Agency completely. Her graduation was said to be that she was overworked and overly stressed, causing her health problems. She also had different ideas of the direction of her career than what her agency had planned. Because of her graduation, she would not be able to participate in the Hello! Project 2008 Winter concert tour, previously said to be because of "scheduling conflicts". On June 19, 2008 (after many rumors had circulated), it was released to the press that Goto had signed with the record label Rhythm Zone under avex. Maki debuted with Avex when she participated in the company's shareholders' meeting on June 22, 2008, singing a cover of Whitney Houston's "Saving All My Love for You." She also participated in a-nation'08 (Osaka on August 24 and Tokyo on August 31) alongside with Kumi Koda, Ai Otsuka, EXILE, Ami Suzuki, AAA, TVXQ, Namie Amuro, and Ayumi Hamasaki, among others. On a-nation, she performed the self-written song "Hear me", a song unreleased to the date, and a cover of Diana King's "Shy Guy", drawing media attention for the first time since her graduation. On January 5, 2009, J-WAVE premiered “SWEET BLACK Girls”, a 15 minutes segment hosted by Maki Goto and Ryu as part of the popular radio show “PLATOn”. The show airs Mon-Fri and focuses on the life of women on their twenties. Reception was extremely good, as 30,000 messages were received during the first week only. This launched the SWEET BLACK Project, a cross-media collaboration between J-WAVE, Avex and Mixi. Goto herself chose the logo and the name, which is meant to reflect the “positive and negative” side of the life of today’s women. To complete the project, Mixi, the most used networking community in Japan, opened a special space for Sweet Black, and Avex launched a web-documentary on YouTube based on Goto’s daily routine as a singer. Immediate success was acquainted, admittedly beyond expectations. Maki released several digital singles under the SWEET BLACK name and is soon to release a mini album of the compiled songs and music videos. Latest release. Quote:
http://i46.tinypic.com/2samiqw.gif 2010 can't come soon enough, a real debut :love |
Soooo Maki Goto is the same person as SWEET BLACK? 0_o Ok....so has she released anything else and is she still going to be called SWEET BLACK in future releases?
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it's SWEET BLACK feat. MAKI GOTO, a project. She will debut as herself in 2010, as Mr. Goto said. :P
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I can't wait for her to debut at herself. The SWEET BLACK stuff has been so good, but that was just a radio project, I can't WAIT to hear what she has in store as Maki Goto
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new thread yay~
the title is maybe a little bit too basic, but the first post is good :) yeah, i can't wait for her debut as Maki Goto on avex :luv2 |
omg new thread like finally!!! love the gif :lech
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Great gif hehe.
Yay for a new thread! With this mini album, she's really set the bar high IMO for her official debut. The official PVs on the avex channel of youtube have a lot of hits (both Fly Away and Lady-Rise have hits in the hundred thousands, which is pretty good considering this was just a small project) so I hope her official debut meets with as much or greater success. |
Very excited to see what she does next year. Very glad she was able to make a successful comeback!
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^ hmm i dunno, apparently someone found it on mixi :shakehead The english on that twitter seems too advanced to be maki...especially after reading english lyrics she wrote.
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http://i49.tinypic.com/2b1qwo.jpg NAIL QUEEN 2010 |
^Maki was named Nail Queen 2010? Cool!
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^ lol nooo i'm saying she will be nail queen in 2010! (or at least should be :eyebrow) Maki already won nail queen before in 2004, but then kuu came along and destroyed maki, along with all the competition :laugh
Maki on the max matsuura documentary hoping for subs soon |
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I don't think it's Maki's twitter unfortunately =(..insomnia is a pretty big word for someone who doesn't know English as a first language to use.
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I think that could be her twitter...most of it is in Japanese anyway, and she could be using an online translator for some of the words in English you know lol.
I liked the link to the other twitter with pics from the with... PV. |
Her nails are GORGEOUS! I'm so looking forward to Maki's releases this year!
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I just hope she doesn't go the Kuu route and become too sexualized. The girl is hot, but she is also a decent vocalist and a great dancer =D
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Just got the new Maki Goto Mail Magazine in my e-mail...don't have time to translate the whole thing, so I'll do a rough translation of the little present part for you really quick.
"Specially for Maki Goto Mail Magazine readers! Special new year wallpaper to all you members of the mail magazine from Maki herself, special edition that you can download for free as a present! Download from here: PC wallpaper: http://www.makigoto.tv/mailmag/20100105pc/index.html Cell wallpaper: http://www.makigoto.tv/mailmag/20100...e/matiuke.html Link is good until Jan 31st!" The cell wallpaper link wasn't working for me...hopefully it goes up soon. |
The cell wall is still wonky though the regular wall is just fine.
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