tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604527943275411636.post6024669821463692611..comments2011-10-02T21:02:49.168-04:00Comments on Suteki Saturday ❤: Ponomenon? Wei~ Wei!Haruhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09739260731257475066noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604527943275411636.post-779876832385748432011-08-13T16:15:17.768-04:002011-08-13T16:15:17.768-04:00@Haru: You're right, but I think it has less t...@Haru: You're right, but I think it has less to do with who's producing her or her modeling work and more to do with the PV for PONPONPON. Not that many people were that excited for her debut or cared that much about the song until the PV aired and everyone suddenly lost their shit. The quirky magic of it is what has wormed the song and Kyary into peoples' hearts -- even if the image isn't altogether novel -- and I can say it did the same for me (though I do really like the song by itself).<br /><br />Really, though, I'm fully expecting this to either be a one-time deal with Nakata or she'll mature as an artist in a subsequent release. I really want her to write lyrics and have an interest in being an actual creative force rather than relying on Nakata and merely existing as the face of a body of work. Her predecessors could do it, why can't she? I don't want another NAGISA COSMETIC. At least Kyary makes me think there's something interesting inside her head.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604527943275411636.post-36185686751873177432011-08-13T16:02:40.245-04:002011-08-13T16:02:40.245-04:00It's terrible because she can't sing, and ...It's terrible because she can't sing, and the music itself is just generic cutesy music. There really isn't anything interesting about it at all, and it starts to grate fast.<br /><br />The gimmick being "look how quirky this cute girl is!! Isn't it funny~" and it's like..Ok I get it. You want us to see how ~fun~ she is and everything but to what end? It's a totally one dimensional persona. "Why do you like Kyary" "She's so lol didn't you see the video with the pons?" ok but there isn't anything there to back it up. Not even the production. She has that style but..So do a bunch of singers in Japan. If have of these people heard the song without the video, they would turn it off in seconds. Kyary, without the distinction of being a model or being produced by Nakata would just blend in with anyone else singing a moe anime character song.Haruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09739260731257475066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604527943275411636.post-10619196127771938322011-08-13T15:47:44.331-04:002011-08-13T15:47:44.331-04:00Writing a book for you:
Her lyrics aren't her...Writing a book for you:<br /><br />Her lyrics aren't hers -- Nakata wrote the entire mini-album, presumably "inspired" by her image after meeting/getting to know her. When she first received the lyrics for PONPONPON, she was actually upset by them and asked him if he was joking because she felt like he was making fun of her (she talked about this in a video message promoting Moshihara, I think on HMV's website?). Once she heard them with the music, she got used to them.<br /><br />While I agree that there really isn't anything unique about her per se, she has a strange magnetic pull. I feel like she's very confident and that helps endear her to me, as I've always been someone who has little time for people who can't be entertaining when it's part of their job. Considering she's being marketed as an idol, I have to compare her to my past experiences with idols, and I just...like the image and product that she's trying to sell a lot more. That said, the previews for everything else (besides PONPONPON) on Moshihara sound really, really disappointing. It makes me wonder why Nakata chose to produce midtempo music for some girl who sings like a dead robot most of the time and doesn't even write her own lyrics.<br /><br />As for your post itself, I like it, it was interesting to read you discussing why you aren't crazy about her like 90% of the rest of the Internet is (even people who have no interest/experience with J-pop have seen her video...and had a "LOL JAPAN" moment, sigh). I think you could've gone more into what it is you dislike, though -- like when you wrote off PONPONPON as a horrible song, what about it is horrible? Or when you said the gimmick was contrived, what is the gimmick and in what way is it contrived?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com