FAKY - 1st full album "F" (19.10.22)

[Corvina]

PV for ANTIDOTE


PV for the third song of the trilogy just been released!

[pedronekoi]

Today the girls performed "NEW AGE" on Sukkiri. I think it's the first time they do a TV Performance.

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[Ayu_Love]

I was a fan before the group change up, but I really love FAKY's new style and songs that they released last year. They look great and they sound great! I'm hoping they will collab with Koda Kumi on more songs, like NEW AGE.

I'm looking forward to 'half-moon', the previews sound really catchy so far!

[MKAyu]

I listened to FAKY's first single some months ago--their first-year stuff--and didn't like it and forgot about them . . . until a few months ago when "Little More" was pushed into my feed.

It's AWESOME!



I've been catching up on FAKY since then and I'm so happy to see they've become an unconventional success. They're doing a lot of advertising and modeling (especially Hina and now Mikako) and Lil Fang and Akina seem to have taken some control of the music. No big song hits, but steadily rising profile. To say nothing of much better music. "Little More," "Half Moon," and "New Age" are all really different, but all really good. I look forward to what new experiments they come out with next.

[MKAyu]

Akina is doing her own singles! The first one was a cover, but the second one is her own lyrics and music, a moody heartbreak song (in English) called Gravity. Mikako did the styling--she's been doing more and more of that.

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[MKAyu]

Hina-chan has a new song and video called 天気雨 out with rapper Novel Core! They wrote the lyrics together and Novel Core did the music.



The two of them appeared together on a reality show on ABEMA where they apparently became friends, because six months ago they shot a special version of the FAKY song Half Moon together.



The reality show made Hina a star in Japan, too, with 360k Instagram followersl and almost 200k for her YouTube channel. In just the past couple of months she became an image model for hair-care line Diane Be True, has appeared with sponsored brand products from both high fashion (YSL, Chanel, miumiu) and local youth-oriented brands (SPINNS, Sculptor), was in a PR for Maquillage makeup, and modeled in magazines NYLON, ViVi, Furisode MODE (a kimono magazine), JJnet, and mini.

I really, really hope her fame--and the much-needed money she's bringing Avex--helps pull the other girls up. Now that Lil' Fang and Akina have begun making such good music and Mikako has carved out an image as a stylist, together they can do amazing things.

[MKAyu]

Taki-chan, FAKY's Phillipina-French-Japanese-Brazilian-Spanish cutie is confirmed as a contestant on the new season of ABEMA's top-rated reality dating series, Koi to Ookami ni ha Damasarenai!



This is the series that bumped Hina to Influencer status last year, giving her all the fans and opportunities I summarized in my last post. Taki-chan is already a star in the Philippines thanks to her TV work there as a teen. Maybe this show can raise her profile in Japan, too.

Here's a trailer for the series:

[hud]

The Light is a bopppppp I'm listening to it + little more a lot these days!

[ayu_ready?]

they always have great songs! are they still with avex? avex is bankrupt, will they move to another label?

[MKAyu]

Hud, I know, just about everything they've made in the last couple years has been addictive!

Originally Posted by ayu_ready?

they always have great songs! are they still with avex? avex is bankrupt, will they move to another label?

Good question. I doubt it, though. Hina in particular seems to be a money-maker with all her advertising, and Avex needs money right now. Actually, if you go to Avex's official site, Faky is on a huge picture at the top!

And the other way, Faky is getting more and more successful, but they're not THAT big. They've had no breakout hits and they're not big names--they're more like youtube star and instagrammer famous, so it would be risky for them to quit and try alone.

If they keep growing, though, and this movie with their song turns out to be a hit, and Taki breaks out like Hina did on Ookami, who knows?

(On Hina being instagram famous: since January 5 when I posted her end-of-2020 activities, she's appeared in Candy Stripper magazine, done a couple of interviews, released her own "produced" line of contacts, appeared at a "DoraemonxGucci" event (and a few other sponsored fashion posts) and is now the face of Kate eyeliner. That's ON TOP OF the new movie promotion and the concert Faky held a few days ago. The girl is on fire.)

[Corvina]

avex is suffering under the pandemic, but they're not bankrupt.

I already said it, but ever since their reforming in 2016 they haven't released a bad song for me!
The Light is really good as well and the styling and design of the MV such a breath of fresh air for them.
Really happy for them that they're so active in and outside music and made themselves a platform.

[Corvina]

avex consists of more than just the label.
E.g. some artists are only distributed by them ( some K-Pop bands or Johnny acts e.g.).
Some are also under avex management like Faky ( + they also have their hands in other stuff than music).
And their management is doing an awesome job as they're the ones scoring all those deals and making the music connections and their schedule.
So no, I don't see them switching labels as they're a through and through avex act.
avex, the label, is apparently suffering a bit more (tho it's hard for the whole indistry rn, others have switched the place of headquarters e.g., too), but I highly doubt they vanish from the scene.

[MKAyu]

Akina released another cover song! Amazing Grace this time.



And it's being used in advertisements for the new movie いのちの停車所！



What a voice she has.

[minkAYuko]

FAKY on ET Canada !

[MKAyu]

Originally Posted by minkAYuko

FAKY on ET Canada !

That's a great clip! I wonder what brought them to the attention of ET Canada?

And I agree with Taki. A lot of ballads bore me, but Half-Moon is really catchy.

[Corvina]

They uploaded a part of their online live they had not too long ago.
Which was planned to be their first normal live concert after the pandemic (and the first as a 5 member group), but they had to make it online cause of the newly announced state of emergency in the beginning of the year.



The ending performance of Who We Are is so sweet!
Didn't have time to watch it live, so I didn't buy a ticket.
Glad to have an upload, love them.

[MKAyu]

Faky's new single, 99, is out on streaming sites!

They first unveiled it at their show for Adidas, which was livestreamed below. For just the song, start at 33:51.



This will be the theme song for a three-part drama titled "Rika~Reverse." Lil' Fang will also sing a cover of another song that's inserted into an episode.

Also, FAKY and fashion magazine NYLON JAPAN just shot a cute video advertising luxury brand Michael Kors. I hope they get to do more of this kind of advertising, they look great.

[Corvina]

99 immeditately entered the top 25 on Line Music when it was released yesterday (currently at #98).
And today they announced a listening campaing for Line Music to further push it.

99 is a really good song.
Reminds me of Last Petal, which is my favourite song from them together with Surrender.

[hud]

99 is a bop! they are serving more and more with each release!

[MKAyu]

A short version of 99 is up introducing the drama Rika Reverse for which it is the theme song.



They also put up the full audio:



I love all this horror-related stuff they're doing lately! They have such a cheerful image themselves, but they're doing great. In their latest livestream, Akina said she'd never experienced romance like the lyrics describe, but now she was looking forward to it, ha ha!