BILLIE IDLE member starts new group

Pour Lui revealed she will be starting up a brand new idol group under the tentative name of Idol Laboratories. Lui has been in the idol industry now for ten years, getting her start in BiS and eventually working with Music Corner alumnus BILLIE IDLE who disbanded this past December. Auditions will start February 2 at the WACK office in Shibuya, Tokyo and they will be conducted in an interview style. Lui is looking for women from 18 to 29 years old and no experience is required. She is being backed by Junnosuke Watanabe, who handles BiS, BiSH, and several others under WACK. Lui stated in an interview, “I have been an idol for 10 years but it is my first time as a producer, so I hope to create a group with the members, the fans who support me, and the production team.” 

BiS drops free song

Alternative idol group BiS dropped their latest song “KiSS MY ASS” for free on Dropbox and SoundCloud. “KiSS MY ASS” was recorded for their second album which the group just announced is set for release February 5, 2020. The song will be available for download via Dropbox only from December 3-10 but via SoundCloud the track will be available indefinitely. The SoundCloud link will be posted below and if you are interested in their new album be sure to check out our article that delves into further details about it.

BiS announces second major album

After the release of their latest chart hit, “DEAD OR A LiME”, alternative idol group BiS revealed they will be dropping their second album since their third relaunch. BiS started back in 2010 but has disbanded twice—yet they keep getting back together. BiS reformed for the third time earlier this year and in August they dropped their self-titled album Brand-new Idol Society. Well, showing no signs of slowing down, they are going to drop their next album less than six months after their first: February 5. The new album was co-sponsored with fellow sister group CARRY LOOSE on November 24 at WOMB in Tokyo. No official title has been revealed for the upcoming album.

BiS welcomes new member

Alternative idol group BiS revealed their latest member, Zuzu Death. BiS announced they were looking for new members during their first one-man live THiS is BiS held back in August. It has not yet been revealed when Zuzu will be joining the group on stage but the production team has already released an image of Zuzu with the usual BiS treatment. Since their reformation back in 2016 BiS has had seven members and Zuzu Death is the eighth. We here at Ongaku To You wish Zuzu Death the best in her new group.

BiS involves fans with interesting way of debuting music video!

Popular alt-idol group BiS’s third generation dropped the music video for their upcoming track “BiS-どうやらゾンビのおでまし-“ (“BiS-Douyara Zombie no Odemashi-”), on their official YouTube channel. “BiS-Douyara Zombie no Odemashi-” will be the lead track for the group’s upcoming album Brand-new idol Society which drops August 14.

In an interesting campaign the entire music video is blurred with a mosaic filter, locking visibility of the members and layout of the video. Through Twitter, each group member must attain a total of 15,000 followers for the “true”, uncensored version of the music video to appear. The group also set up tiers for the video, stating that if members reach a total of only 13,000 followers, only half of the members will be “unlocked”, with the other half unlocked after 14,000 followers is reached. The members commented on the marketing saying that they think it a great idea and keeps the music video very dramatic. They also commented that they will have fun checking to see if the true version will finally be revealed.

As previously reported, Brand-new idol Society will drop with only a CD-only standard edition with thirteen tracks total. In the meantime check out the music video in question along with the pre-order links for Brand-new idol Society below!

Standard edition 

01 STUPiD

02 BiS-どうやらゾンビのおでまし-

03 SURRENDER

04 リフレイン

05 BiS3

06 this is not a love song

07 1,2,3!!

08 absolutely meeeeee!!

09 ナンデスカ?

10 thousand crickets

11 teacher teacher teacher

12 strawberry girl

13 LET’S GO どうも