
For a band whose name sounds a lot like a euphemism for beating off, perhaps it’s unsurprising. However, as the clean-cut forbearers of Japan’s J-pop generation, SMAP’s social duties prior to Kusanagi’s outburst have been limited to releasing endless, identikit pop singles for bored housewives, looking pretty and available for bored housewives, hosting cooking and variety shows for bored housewives and occasionally proving their street cred by hanging out with ‘cool’ Western bands like, er, Coldplay – a sight so transparently shit it was dismissed by just about anybody on the planet except for the aforementioned bored housewives.
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