Welcome to the iDOL Street Show!

Hi everyone! So, tonight I decided I want to blog about an agency I have been getting REALLY interested in called iDOL Street. And, if you don't know what iDOL Street is or don't follow them, you should seriously give this blog post a chance because iDOL Street is seriously amazing and full of such great girls.
I'll admit this will likely be a pretty long post, as I'm covering a bit about an entire label, but if you don't know much about iDOL Street, I truly think you should at least skim it or check out the videos.
I really think iDOL Street has a lot worth loving for any idol fan. 
This post will have information on iDOL Street and the groups as well as videos and music clips. :)

iDOL Street is a label under Avex. There are two things I really love about iDOL Street. The first is that so many of the girls have some serious talent- singing and dancing. iDOL Street has some girls with some AWESOME vocals. But they are also cute and entertaining as idols. The other thing I really like is that each group under iDOL Street very much so has it's own sound. Sort of like each group has a theme? It's really makes them more enjoyable somehow.

The first group to debut under iDOL Street is SUPER☆GiRLS. SUPER☆GiRLS is a group that debuted with 12 members in 2010, though is currently down to 10. They are cute charming girls and the group generally has some really nice vocals. 

Out of iDOL Street, this is the group I'd say has the most generic idol sound. It's kind of their thing. But it's actually really enjoyable. They have a nice generic pop sound that you'd expect from idols, but it really works for them. In fact, if you ask me, I could honestly tell you that I don't think they have a single bad song. 

Although I consider them the iDOL Street 'generic' sounding group, because of this they also seem to have the most freedom with their music. They generally have a nice pop sound but they are able to put it to many different uses. They also have some great singers and so they are able to throw in some nice harmonies, which I love. They also give fantastic live performances.

This is SUPER☆GiRLS first single:

      

And here is their most recent single:

They also have an album, titled "Celebration", being released on the 20th of this month! It's bound to be great, and I highly recommend you buy it if you have interest in the group. It will be their third album released, not including their digitally released instrumental album.

Here are some song previews from their upcoming album release:

Rave Together:

Junjou Cinderella:

DREAM SEEKER:

Renai Manifest:

And this is the song the album is named after:

If you have interest in the album, you should definitely consider buying it! On CDJapan, all three versions still have first press available as of right now! That means they also come with a photo :)

You can buy the album below:

 

CD Only Version  

  

  CD+DVD A  

  

  CD+DVD B

Please remember, if you are indeed interested in buying the album, to click those links and buy through there, as I will get a percentage of what is spent (at no extra cost to you) so I can buy some idol cds as well.

The next idol Group to debut under iDOL Street is Cheeky Parade! This group is still extremely new, just releasing their debut single last month. (Although they had an indies single released before that.) 

This group is iDOL Streets energetic, over-the-top, hyperactive group. They are weird and crazy and totally fantastic.

They are releasing their second major single on April 10th! It is titled "C.P.U !?" which apparently stands for "Cheeky Parade Understand !?" The MV and song are both fun and crazy, and have a sort of virtual/video game theme to them. Anyway, it's a blast, and you can watch it below:

Personally, I love this single and am trying right now to get the money together to be able to afford buying at least the Regular Edition. I've been following these girls since the start and have loved them, and they just keep getting better! So hopefully I can buy this release and support them.

And if you can, you should, too! ;D

The single can be bought here:

Regular Version                             CD+DVD Version

If you like the group/song and can afford it, please consider buying the single! (And of course, make sure you click through those links before buying to help me out.) I'm really hoping for high sales on this one. This is a group that really deserves it!

And, for just a little more of a taste of Cheeky Parade, here is them performing "Cheeky Dreamer", their indie release, live!

They give a really fun live performance. :)

And, here is my oshi of the group, Mariya, singing a bit of a solo song~

The last group under iDOL Street is GEM, which just performed for the first time ever last month. (The above video introduces each girl about half-way through.) GEM is full of some crazy cute and crazy talented girls with some great personalities. I could see this group being big. (Or, at the very least, they deserve to be big.) 

This group covers iDOL Streets 'cool' image. They have a very cool and mature kinda almost R&B sort of sound. Despite their young look and age, they really pull it off. I think these girls could really go a long way.

Here's GEM with their original song, Speed Up!

If that's not great, I honestly don't even know what is. And, these girls haven't even made a major debut! In fact, even under their own label, they are still regarded as trainee members, called streetsei. (Something like H!P eggs or AKB KKS.) However, they've got loads of talent, and I can't wait until they release a single, because I will be buying it.

Currently, GEM is often performing in a group of 7 of the members (which is switched up a bit now and then) being called GEMSTAR. Here is GEMSTAR performing GEM's other original song, Do it Do it at their first live on February 11th!

And, if you want a taste of some of the talent in GEM, check out Maaya (the girl in red) performing a solo!

I'm definitely going to be following this group. They are brand new and so young but their music is phenomenal, they are great performers and have SO much talent. 

Lastly, I want to talk about the streetsei. These are the iDOL Street trainees (which, as I have already stated, the above group GEM is still apart of.)

All the trainee members are separated into 5 smaller groups that they perform lives in. The groups are e-Street Sapporo, e-Street Tokyo, w-Street Nagoya, w-Street Osaka, and w-Street Fukuoka. What's really cool is that, just like each iDOL Street group seems to have it's own feel and image to it, so does each group. Each group gives off a different feeling and has different sorts of motions and such. It's very cool because it makes it easier to find one specific one suited for you. 

Two of the trainee groups were given an original song (and hopefully the others are, as well, soon!) but for the most part these groups perform iDOL Street songs and sometimes throw in covers of other groups like the ***48's, H!P, and even E-girls!

Below is each group performing.

Sapporo performing a song by their seniors, SUPER☆GiRLS, "Tokimeki Shoku no Kaze to Kimi"

Tokyo performing a song made for the Streetsei (And then given to Cheeky Parade on their first indie single) "Zettai! Love Magic"

Nagoya performing their (AMAZING) original song, which is one of my favorite songs right now, "Kitto for You"

Osaka performing their energetic original song, "Onegai Moonlight"

Lastly, we have Fukuoka doing a cover of S/mileage's "Suki-chan"

Well, after that (massive) post, I hope you can see a bit of what I see in iDOL Street. There are a lot of great idols and great songs and just amazing girls. I really hope you'll give iDOL Street a try! (Whether that means looking more into them, downloading some of their songs, or buying some CDs/merch!)

If you are like me and are the type to be interested in magazines, I have some good recent ones with iDOL Street girls in them below! (One thing I like about magazines is they have a lot of different idols in them, so somehow it makes it more worth buying? xD) 

So, if you want to grab something like that, here are some good choices!

Idol Graph Photogenic

This has some really nice shots in it of some great idols, two of which are iDOL Street members! Maeshima Ami of SUPER☆GiRLS and Sekine Yuna of Cheeky Parade.

Front Cover:

Back Cover:

Top Yell 2013 March

Top Yell has lots of pics and some articles along with some really cool live shots and backstage offshots. It has TONS of idol groups in every issue, but this issue happens to have a focus on iDOL Street. It also comes with a double-sided SUPER☆GiRLS poster.

BLT U-17 Vol. 25

This one has some absolutely gorgeous photos of SUPER☆GiRLS and Cheeky Parade both. Absolutely gorgeous, and quite a few!

Or, if you're really getting interested in iDOL Street, I highly recommend you grab an iDOL Street Official Book! Full of great pictures, some articles for those of you who can read Japanese, and it's all about iDOL Street and iDOL Street only! 

There are two of these iDOL Street Official Books, and you can find both below:

iDOL Street Official Book Vol. 1

This one is the first, from in 2011, so it is just SUPER☆GiRLS and the Streetsei at that time (which is mostly the Cheeky Parade members!) This issue comes with a random poster of either SUPER☆GiRLS or the Streetsei.

iDOL Street Official Book Vol. 2

This is Volume 2, released in summer of 2012. It has a front and back cover, the back featuring Cheeky Parade. There is a lot on SUPER☆GiRLS and Cheeky Parade, as well as the 7 Streetsei at the time. Then, there is coverage from the 3rd generation iDOL Street auditions and profiles for the winners, the 3rd generation Streetsei girls. This has some stunning photoshoots along with some live shots and articles. It also comes with two photos (randomly chosen from 54 different ones) that can be any member of iDOL Street at that time.

And, that is where I end my post. If any of you actually truly READ that whole thing, you need both a reward and...probably something else to do with your life ;p Not that I can talk, I took the time to write the thing, after all xD

I did so because I truly love iDOL Street and think they are fantastic and so worth everyone looking into. So I hope you at least played some of the videos :)

Some questions for those of you willing to leave comments~

♥  Had you heard of iDOL Street before this post?

♥  Had you followed any of the groups previous to this post?

♥  Are you more interested in iDOL Street after this post? (Maybe interested in following some of the groups/girls?)

♥  Did you actually read this whole post? ;p (I'm truly curious if anyone did xD)

Thank you for visiting my blog and checking out my iDOL Street! I leave you with iDOL Streets song, Asu e Step, which includes all of the members before 3rd Generation Streetsei.