BOA / jpop / Music
Weezer just released their latest album, informally titled The Red Album. As a treat to local fans and also to gouge consumers, they cover songs from each country of the release. In Japan, they’ve selected BoA’s “Meri Kuri”. A good thought. Unfortunately, their version is a hack job. Somewhat sadistically, I made it the whole …
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jpop / Koda Kumi / Music
Koda’s new single, “That Ain’t Cool”, comes out on June 11th, 2008. The title aptly sums up her duet with Fergie. For some reason, Fergie spends parts of the video dressed in a catsuit and contorting her body in various positions. I assume they wanted their video to be sexy and seductive. So, that really …
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jpop / Music / Utada Hikaru
Congratulations to Utada for crossing over the 1 million sales mark. Hard to do when no one pays for music anymore. She’s released a new video for “Prisoner of Love”, her latest single.
The video shows her locked (presumably) in a room with only a piano and musical recording equipment. Nothing like any prison I’ve been …
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