It’s been a tough past two years for Hamasaki Ayumi in the wake of a failed marriage to an Austrian who posed in Leslie Kee photobooks in arseless underpants for a living, Koda Kumi charting higher than her with an album that sold less copies, a hat-trick of three albums failing to hit #1 on the Oricon chart, and a ... 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 »
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 »
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 »
Asian Junkie Asian pop. Without discretion.