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			what brand are his pants from?
		 
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			Ken & other artistes today performed at the last day of J-WAVE LIVE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION J-WAVE LIVE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION started over the weekend & all 3 dates of the event were held at Yokohama Arena This year's J-WAVE LIVE is the 20th anniversary since the event was started  Fuji TV NEXT will air some footages of J-WAVE LIVE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION on 19th Sept https://twitter.com/fujitv_nexco/sta...46755106918401 More photos of Ken & his setlist from today's J-WAVE LIVE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION 1) Love Love Love 2) Mahoutte Itte Ii Kana? 3) LIFE is... 4) One Love Wonderful World 5) POP STAR 6) Non Fiction https://www.j-wave.co.jp/special/live2019/report.html Ooh nice , One Love Wonderful World ! 1 of the rare songs that Ken didn't worked on during the early days of his career be it writing and/or composing 
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			Fuji TV will broadcast footages of July's J-WAVE LIVE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION tomorrow from 6pm to midnight For Ken's performance , his falls under Day 3 of the event ie. the last 2 hours of the broadcast https://twitter.com/fujitv_nexco/sta...40466712870913 https://twitter.com/fujitv_nexco/sta...47395141038080 
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			Ken has contributed a new song to be used for the upcoming TBS drama 4 Funkan no Marigold This will be the 18th song that Ken has contributed to be used to promote TV dramas For now the new song's title is not known And here's the latest promo picture of Ken https://twitter.com/KEN_HIRAI_staff/...51879983026177 https://natalie.mu/music/news/348271 https://twitter.com/4mari_tbs/status...90549716340738 Er ok o_O 
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			July's J-WAVE LIVE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION of Ken's performance set that was aired via FujiTV NEXT https://www.bilibili.com/video/av68318463 FujiTV NEXT aired the following songs of from Ken's J-WAVE LIVE 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION set : 1) LIFE is... 2) One Love Wonderful World 3) POP STAR 4) Non Fiction The 1st 2 songs Love Love Love & Mahoutte Itte Ii Kana? were cut from the broadcast I'm real stoked that FujiTV NEXT kept Ken's performances of LIFE is... & One Love Wonderful World intact especially since he rarely perform these 2 songs nowadays I always have liked One Love Wonderful World and it's very surprising Ken performed it . Not only is it a very old song but it's 1 of the few songs that Ken sung entirely in English Just like One Love Wonderful World & Non Fiction , only an acoustic guitarist backed Ken up vocally POP STAR is quite atypical but at least Ken managed to walk around Yokohama Arena a bit instead of being rooted down in his seat x) And seeing Ken dancing a bit onstage alongside with the POP STAR mascots was quite funny haha Lastly to see Ken sing acapella in the beginning of Non Fiction , so awesome 
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			46th single #302 will be released on 4th Dec & this will be Ken's 1st physical release single since last Nov's half of me #302 is the title of the song that Ken has contributed to be used to promote the TBS drama 4 Funkan no Marigold This is the 18th song that Ken has contributed to be used to promote TV dramas #302 will 1st be released digitally on 25th Oct http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/KenHirai/info/511202 Sweet about time for new Ken material & for now it's not known how many versions #302 will be released in 
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			Ken will perform #302 tomorrow for the 1st time on MUSIC STATION A section of MUSIC STATION will feature Ken , on the top 30 songs that fans have requested him to perform during the Request Corner segment of his Ken's Bar concept concerts since he 1st started it back in 1998 And here're the 30 songs in the Request Corner list : Spoiler: 
 https://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000172372 Interesting list , even some of Ken's most recently released singles also made the cut aside from the usual suspects For me I'm surprised Canvas , Missin' you ~It will break my heart~ are not in , same thing goes for Ooki na Furudokei & PAUL Not a lot like Miracles & doesn't help the song is so long , length wise but I still like it after all these years I also like style as well but oh well 
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			Isn't like everyone in Japan a Peanuts/Snoopy-Fan? I still don't get that
		 
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			#302 credits ◆#302 Lyrics & Music : Ken Hirai Sound Produce, Arrangement : Tomi Yo / Masato Ishinari Acoustic Guitar: Masato Ishinari Strings:Koichiro Muroya Strings ◆かわいそうだよね Lyrics & Music : Ken Hirai Sound Produce, Arrangement and Piano:Akihisa Matzura ◆トドカナイカラ (Kan Sano Remix) Lyrics & Music : Ken Hirai Remixed by Kan Sano Kan Sano appears by the courtesy of origami PRODUCTIONS http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/KenHirai/info/511659 Kawaisou da yo ne is a self cover of JUJU which Ken 'gave' the song to her which was included in last year's I album of hers 
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			The covers are pretty good. What you talking about?!    
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			I'm shocked they released a full PV online, and it's not region blocked. Is it because it's the theme for the drama?
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			That’s so interesting, and yeah it’s great they removed it! I haven’t been on Ken’s YouTube channel for a while and the last time I wanted to watch, all his stuff was region blocked so I kind of gave up trying to use YouTube to watch his PVs.
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			#302 is Ken's 1st PV not to get region block and hopefully it will not be the last
		 
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			Yeah hopefully, that way they can be viewed/shared by more people
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			Now we wait for them to eventually remove the region lock for streaming services... God dammit I wanna stream his music on Spotify.
		 
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			Early purchase of #302 via different CD stores include different bonus items giveaway Spoiler: 
 http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/KenHirai/info/512661 
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			Ugh he's ageing like fine wine. He gets hotter the older he gets.
		 
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			^oh I’m really excited to see this! I’m a big fan of pairing pop music with orchestra!
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			It's interesting that Ken Ken is the rare older Sony Japan artist that still has real career momentum.  Mika Nakashima continues to chart just fine, but she's been stuck in a compilation cycle for years. Miliyah is finally hitting the point where her releases could start missing the top 10. Kana was still selling well, but she had definitely started declining before her exit. Just interesting how Ken has avoided those troubles. | 
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