tisdag 20 november 2012

Jpop/Kpop: PSY precursor - Kyary's (きゃりー) Pon Pon Pon




Before PSY brought kpop into every each corner of the (musical) world, we hade a smaller version of asian viral hit through the song "Pon pon pon" by japanese artist Kyaru Pamyu Pamyu (actual name Kiriko Takemura). The video, because the thing with Pon pon pon was very much its visual expression in combination with its music, a look that you would get if you mixed wildly japanese culture, street fashion and psycadelic eyeglobes to a mildy hypnotic/enervating nonsensical refrain. It may never have really have reached more people than those with their interest in asian culture or ear against the ground, but it still reached millions of views (over 56 million views ATM) and showed the impression that the east could make on the world, which then PSY fullfilled to the maximum.
For more on the fashion of Harajaku, se for example here, here, here.
Update: Latest video is Furisodeshon which I think is about long-sleeved kimonos(?)

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