After being sick of looking like Ripley from Alien 3, ICONIQ decided to grow her hair out so that she could look like the girls in Blenda and Jelly magazine, but failed to realize that Avex cannot have two artists on the roster who both have hair and share the same name. Hamasaki Ayumi ain’t going for that, so she ... Read More »
Amuro Namie wants you to forget all about that Hamasaki Ayumi bitch and focus soley on her, and her management team at Vision Factory want Japan to continue to have Namie shit all over Ayu’s releases. With a digital single having dropped in December and a tour DVD due out at the end of February and NOW a new digital ... Read More »
To celebrate 15 years of wailing like a banshee, passing off hood-length talons as couture nails, and wiping the floor with 90% of the female acts in Japan with chart records and album sales, Avex and Ayu decided to release a mini-album for the fourth consecutive month in February. Fresh off her November mini-album “Love“, her December release “Again“, and ... Read More »
Koda Kumi‘s love of bottles goes way back (see “Juicy” video), so it was only a matter of time until she released a perfume. Inspired by her shotgun marriage to some guy in a flop rock group and the birth of her child, ‘Kumi Kehovah’ decided to create her own bottled fragrances: Love Note and Love Touch. Elegant fragrances you ... Read More »
I had previously mentioned that Hamasaki Ayumi‘s “You & Me” song was pretty much a cluster fuck of “Fairyland“, the theme song to Sonic CD, and a pre-chorus build to Rihanna‘s “We Found Love” all gang fucking an anime theme song. And the music video is an exact visual representation of this. Only we get a bit of “Blue Bird” ... Read More »
With SNSD being gagged and shoved on a plane by armed forces to do shit in Japan in order to fill the void left in SM Entertainment‘s Japanese sales by BoA and TVXQ, it’s clear that Korean agencies are now throwing their girl groups at Japan like bread scraps at pigeons. JYP Entertainment had to answer with his marquee girl ... Read More »
Koda Kumi and Hamasaki Ayumi are sales crippled messes, barely managing to sell between them. So Avex dragged Kumi off maternity leave and slapped both ladies with an order for a Summer release. Kumi will release a remix album “Beach Mix“, whilst Ayu will release a compilation album “A Summer Best“. Each of their lazily compiled offerings will feature a ... Read More »
Amuro Namie has been trying to master the art of pushing units with minimal promotion for years. Well, she’s finally perfected it for “Uncontrolled” by managing to ship over 100,000 copies of her new album on the first day of release, which is more than Hamasaki “Farty Queen” Ayumi and Koda “Ploponesque” Kumi‘s flops managed to ship in their first ... Read More »
*Video Down Because Japanese Companies Are Assholes* Does this exude sexuality or what? Koda Kumi‘s “So Nice” won’t feel like anything new, but despite the deja vu moments, the overt ero kawaii vibe of her music videos seem to make everything her own. For example, “So Nice” actually reminded me of Shimatani Hitomi‘s “Haru Machibito” music video. Both are filmed ... Read More »
Koda Kumi‘s announcement that she got knocked up by KENJI03 led to a ton of amusing comments, but none funnier/scarier (depending on intention) than this one left on tokyohive. It’s either extremely hilarious or utterly disturbing…maybe both. Read More »
Have we fallen so far as human beings that we can no longer take a joke? Actor Joe Odagiri has apologized for writing his name as “Kumi Koda” when a fan asked him for his autograph while he was in a restaurant after attending the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea in October. Odagiri, 35, attended the premiere of ... Read More »
After the surprising announcement of her marriage, and then rumors about a pregnancy, Koda Kumi herself confirmed today that she has been getting a cream filling on the regular. Singer Koda Kumi has confirmed that she is pregnant with her first child! Koda was rumored to be pregnant shortly after she revealed that she was getting married to BACK-ON vocalist ... Read More »
As I joking posted about recently upon the announcement of her surprise wedding, Koda Kumi is allegedly pregnant. The tabloid was able to talk with a friend of the singer who claims to know the whole truth about the marriage announcement. That person stated, “To tell you the truth, Koda is having a baby inside her stomach. She’s still in ... Read More »
Last I heard, Koda Kumi was still rumored to be doing the nasty on the regular with SMAP‘s Masahiro Nakai, so needless to say, her engagement to BACK-ON‘s KENJI03 is a surprise. On December 13th, Koda Kumi (29) made an announcement via her official website that she is getting married to KENJI03 (27), the vocalist and guitarist of mixture rock ... Read More »
When I’m talking about an artist dedicating themselves to a concept and just going all out with it, Koda Kumi has to be one of the best. Say what you will about her, but when she does shit, she does it honestly and she doesn’t pull punches. As I said in my music video review of Rania‘s “Pop Pop Pop“, ... Read More »
Asian Junkie Asian pop. Without discretion.