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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2014 9:20:47 GMT
Kyary started as a fashion blogger (oh haiii) before modeling for Harajuku fashion magazines like Kera! and Zipper. This led to an opportunity to collaborate with the Eyemazing company on a line of false eyelashes called “Harajuku Doll.” Her first single, “PonPonPon,” was released in 2011, has become a signature song for the artist and has since accrued over 67 million views. Since then she’s released a slew of videos, each one just a little bit kooky and brimming with her signature brand of “traumatic cuteness.” She’s even been named the Official Kawaii Ambassador of Harajuku by the mayor of Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward. But what is her style? And how do you accomplish it? According to Kyary: “New Kawaii” for me [is] a cuteness that is a little bit traumatic, that has a dark aspect to it, and I try to keep this in mind. So within cuteness for me, I like to have grotesque elements like eyeballs, or other items that are surprising to see. “PonPonPon” features skulls, worms, and candy canes while “Mottai Night Land” has ghosts wearing bikinis. When pressed further about her status as a fashion icon, and what that ultimately means to her and her fans, she responded with:  Fundamentally, I want people to wear what they want to wear. In my song “Fashion Monster” there is the lyric, “I don’t want to be bound by anyone else’s rules.” I think that sums up what I would like to say to listeners. If you are wearing clothes that you enjoy wearing, everything you do in life becomes fun.  |
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Post by Admin on Sept 11, 2014 4:13:11 GMT
 Pop is supposedly a universal language, although getting American audiences to believe that has been rough going—a few songs that dabble in Spanish have made the leap to pop radio playlists, but they're anomalous enough that Los Del Rio's "Macarena," which topped the charts some 18 years ago, remains one of the bigger tracks to cross over. Which brings us to Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, a Japanese model-slash-singer who's become well-known among North American music fans for her hyperkinetic fashion sense and exploded-drawing pop music, both of which balance notions of "cute" with the grotesque in ways that are as glee-inducing as they are unsettling. She's hung out with Katy Perry and been enthused over by Grimes; she's played a handful of shows in the States and in Canada, attracting fans costumed in ways that, while outlandish, don't hold a candle to her breasts-as-eyes party frock or Christmas-tree 'do. And this year her profile has only risen: Avril Lavigne's sugar-coma-inducing video for "Hello Kitty," which the Canadian singer released to much consternation, was eventually uncovered as an homage to Pamyu Pamyu. And last weekend, Courtney Love posted photos with Pamyu Pamyu and her army of decked-out dancers. Pamyu Pamyu's third album, Pika Pika Fantajin, has her working once again with the Japanese songwriter and producer Yasutaka Nakata, a meticulous crafter of complex yet earwormy pop songs who's part of the Jpop group Capsule. It's also, if "Ring A Bell" is any indication, her first push out of the mini-tour fringes and into the meaty part of the Western pop market. "Ring A Bell" is Pamyu Pamyu's first offering in English. It's an upbeat tale of visiting the studio that has an utterly straightforward, glittering chorus, which eventually gives way to her singing "I'm happy today, I'm happy today" over and over. As a standalone song, its simplicity almost sounds cynical, until her proclamation of happiness repeats itself for so long that it eventually takes on the qualities of a manic episode, which makes for a fine pop experiment, but a bit of a gritted-teeth listener experience. Other tracks on the album, though, go for the pop jugular, even while Pamyu Pamyu's air-balloon soprano directs listeners toward surface lightness. Nakata's arrangements sound like they were first crafted in miniature, with no room left for instrumental flourishes or drum fills, then blown up to scale. The strenuously up-tempo "do do pi do" sounds the most readily accessible to Western audiences, its housey piano intro giving way to plinky toy-pianos and Pamyu Pamyu's sugary vocal. "Kira Kira Killer" is a peppily presented tale of a "sparkly killer" with backup vocalists who sound ready to charge through the next candy store they find; "Sunngoi Aura" is an extended exercise in whimsy, complete with trilling piccolo, that is so precisely orchestrated as to conjure images of storyboarded chase scenes. Whether the American audience beyond online diehards will take to Pamyu Pamyu's complex, layered take on pop—or at the very least, be entranced enough by her fashion sense to let her live in the liminal arena of "music-related celebrity"—remains to be seen, but the airy yet dense, utterly catchy tracks on PikaPika Fantajin certainly deserve a listen from those looking to expand their pop boundaries. |
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Post by Admin on Nov 9, 2014 23:58:59 GMT
 Moshi Moshi Nippon 2014 was an all-day festival in Tokyo which took place on a recent Sunday and was organized by Asobi System, the agency behind Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. Asobi System manages many similar pop-idol groups, as well as Harajuku fashion models and the like, and their manifesto is to spread eye-popping Harajuku culture to the world. The festival featured dozens of pop artists and DJs over three stages, plus a fashion catwalk. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu—SPOILER ALERT—was the headliner of course. Asobi System conceived Moshi Moshi Nippon as a way to spread its name overseas, and so while tickets cost around $35 for Japanese fans, foreigners were given free entry. But the really weird thing was the segregated viewing areas. Japanese fans had to stand at the back, or even way off in the second- and third-floor balconies, while foreigners got their own spot right at the front. The event drew 15,000 people, around 3,000 of whom were not from Japan (according to that ever-reliable font of statistics, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu). In addition to all the stuff on stage there were stalls selling clothes worn by models on shoots or giving free hairstyling, makeup, nail art, face-painting and more—you could have turned up naked because everything a fashionista could want was there. The media area was a scrum of music journalists, fashion bloggers, and morning variety TV shows.  The fans had their own fashion thing going on, too. Most of the foreigners I spoke to were residents of Japan, so they were well up on the local styles. The ladies in particular made an effort to replicate the Harajuku look. Most of the peacocking took place in the open-air plaza outside the entrance, where DJs played electro-pop beats from a small stage. This area was also used by the less well-known idol groups on the bill to work the crowds and service their fans. Groups like Predia did handshaking events for fans who’d bought something from their merch stand. |
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Post by Admin on Dec 26, 2014 23:46:17 GMT
 Last September, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Nintendo ad was released. The gaming company revealed its new 3DS with a hyper cute ad featuring Japanese pop sensation Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. The 21 year-old J-pop Kyary Pamyu Pamyu or Kiriko Takemura in real life is considered as the Lady Gaga of Japan because of her fashion sense. She is also regarded as the queen of kawaii. On October 11, the New Nintendo 3DS game system was launched in Japan.  And as seen on the Nintendo website, "Mottai Night Land" singer introduced the system's interchangeable "Kisekae Plates" (literally, dress-up plates). These plates allow players to customize the exterior design of the New Nintendo 3DS in countless ways. In the first television commercial, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu played dress-up by putting extravagant outfits on Mario, Link, and other familiar characters. The first Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Nintendo Ad showcased Nintendo's characters with adorable makeovers and perfectly marketed the New 3DS's swappable faceplate feature. The second commercial is now focusing on the best software 3DS has to offer this holiday season. As per Hardcore Gamer, games like Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Super Mario 3D Land, and Super Smash Bros. for 3DS are included in the TV commercial. The combination of the games in one TV commercial has successfully made a great job as it makes the audience to lust after a New 3DS. |
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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2015 23:21:55 GMT
 UNBORDE has confirmed that Kyary’s next single Mondai Girl will be released on March 18th, 2015! Mondai Girl is already available for pre-order on CDJAPAN in both Limited Edition (CD+DVD) and Regular Edition (CD-Only) formats! The description says that the single will definitely contain her upcoming song Mondai Girl (Problem Girl), as well as her CM songs MY ROOM and KISEKAE and a currently untitled 4th new song.  Other information about the CD+DVD release from CDJapan: Limited edition comes with a bonus DVD featuring live footage selected from “KPP NANDA COLLECTION WORLD TOUR 2014” and “Kyary Pamyu Pamyu no Colorful Panic Toy Box” (subject to change). Also includes a sticker. Features 7-inch-LP-sized cover. *The DVD disc is encoded for region 2 (Japan, Europe, and Middle East), and no subtitles are included.  |
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