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Post by thegl0r on Feb 6, 2016 23:11:44 GMT -5
...On the other hand, is Japan's reluctance to correct snaggle teeth with orthodontics really so great? I don't insist on a toothpaste smile, but there are Japanese walking around out there with ongoing disasters in their mouths, based on nothing but a long-held ideas not only about what beauty should be, but about how you are and are not allowed to get some for yourself. In a weird turnaround, Japanese women actually pay to have an even bite scrambled, and orderly eyeteeth twisted into cute baby anime fangs. Oh, so you don't insist on a toothpaste smile, but you still want your Japanese girls to have those unnatural American smiles eh? With rows of teeth in their mouthes like perfectly lined up gravestones. Yuch! There's something rather disturbing about that look especially when combined with that radioactive glowing white that American moviestars seem to love. The yaeba look is so cute, and it gives Japanese women that "kawaii young girl" look. It's a shame that more Japanese women don't go for the traditional ohaguro (teeth blackening) look nowadays. Perhaps because "On February 5, 1870, the (Japanese) government banned the practice of ohaguro, and the process gradually became obsolete." Sigh. SK did consider trying ohaguro for some publicity photos, but rejected the idea because they were concerned that the American market would be confused by it and misunderstand the beauty and cultural significance of the image. Here's one of the pictures from the rejected photo set. Naoko's pearly teeth are just peeping out, Ritsuko's glamorously painted black teeth leap out at you, but Emi is hiding her unpainted teeth from view as she wasn't married and thought she still wasn't really old enough to consider herself a proper adult yet. ohaguro (black teeth) skApparently black teeth were fashionable in the UK back in the days when cane sugar was first being imported at great expense. Aristocrats would blacken their teeth to make it look like they were so wealthy that they could consume vast amounts of sugar which they knew would blacken and eventually rot their teeth. This spread to the lower strata of society. Different cultures have different concepts of beauty, and different ideas of what beautiful teeth look like...
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Post by tangerinesun on Feb 7, 2016 1:16:37 GMT -5
Different cultures have different concepts of beauty, and different ideas of what beautiful teeth look like... But seriously. Extreme cultural relativism. All very well until someone calls your bluff. Then the party is over.
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Post by tangerinesun on Feb 27, 2016 1:01:40 GMT -5
Tokyo Fashion does a spit-take, because KPP appeared in a magazine, dressed in drag as a normal, grownup, groomed female fashion siren. Which was her plan. TokyoFashion11:19 AM - 26 Feb 2016 Twitter status きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ and Numero TOKYOKyary Pamyu Pamyu and Numéro Tokyonumero.jp/news-20160227-carrypamyupamyu/
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Post by lazybone712 on Feb 27, 2016 21:33:23 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Feb 28, 2016 22:26:08 GMT -5
Another office partySaturday January 30 there was a modest company fête for KPP's 23rd birthday two days previous. Extra-special, because of the 5-year anniversary of her debut with the organization. Although it's a little out of the way, ageHa was reserved. It was a daytime event. Hey, on a Saturday night no one can take time off from work! ageHa? Tokyo's biggest, bestest DJ dance club and mid-size concert hall — capacity 5,000.Foam party and bikini night are like jelly party and peanut butter night.ASOBISYSTEM people are not exactly strangers at ageHa. This coproduced video party memorandum might explain it best. There is no clubbing like this clubbing. ARE – YOU – READYYY?ASOBINITE!!! HALLOWEEN 2014 produced by ageHa × ASOBISYSTEM2015 January 28 by ASOBISYSTEM (03:53) Here is a pretty self-indulgent 8-minute hyper-documentary from ageHa about how every minute of 2015 was prelude to the latest new year's eve party. Pamyurin is not alone in her pursuits. ageHa Annual 2015-16 "The WonderNight"2016 February 16 by ageHaTokyo (08:30) 〜〜〜〜〜 The Problem Girl and the birthday problemFrom the January 31 Lineblog of CULUMI NAKADA (中田クルミ, "model / actress / DJ"). Culumi/Clumi, or just CLM, is Kyary's junior stable-mate at ASOBISYSTEM and they look like fast friends. This thing weighs a ton! Turn it so we can see.Clumi's in the crocheted hat. No ID on the third problem girl.Insert short appreciation speech: "Everyone thanks for coming, 5 amazing years, now I'm 23, new direction for even greater things, do my best for Nakata-san my mentor, please support me in future as in the past, I hope you can stay for this evening, THANK YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH!!" Lights out and make a wish. Writer-arranger-producer-san supports the talent as always. It's sweet, isn't it?By the looks of things, we are upstairs in a VIP behind the second floor mezzanine. After the company function, DJ Clumi was spinning hits from the stage downstairs, but the guest of honor had to get ready for a show. In the evening, ageHa would morph into its second self, STUDIO COAST for a special event. ASOBI NITE!!! – KYARY PAMYU PAMYU BIRTHDAY SPECIALBasically, a fan appreciation party. And you think you have problems separating work from personal time. Kyary and the Kyary Dancers ran through a short program ending with "Problem Girl". KPP attempted to explain and close out the Medical Emergency publicity stunt teaser campaign that preceded. It's clear she's also slowly closing the curtain on the first phase of her career. You guys realize I wasn't really in the emergency room, right? Or dead or anything? Droves of people came in spite of snow to hear KPP expound her goals for the next evolution. "Kawaii fashions naturally, but also slightly more "grownup" fashions, because I'm at an age to enjoy trying on lipstick and heels. I've never challenged fashion until now. I'd like to become a fabulous adult woman!"She makes a good point. She's built a career on mutated and subverted fashion, but she's never exactly participated in the whole thing. She also alluded to a sincere desire to grow as an artist. How that looks and how it goes down with fans of the impish goth/loli/crazy fashion monster could be pretty interesting. What would it be like if KPP were a giant instead of a pixie? It sounds as if the rules are changing for Yasutaka Nakata. As the impresario, his job just got harder. Fun times! Report on the evening from event promoter iFLYER
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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 21, 2016 17:06:41 GMT -5
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu kicks off J-POP SUMMIT 2016!j-pop.com/guests/kyary-pamyu-pamyu/★ Participating Event: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu LIVE at J-POP SUMMIT OPENING NIGHT – KPP 5iVE YEARS MONSTER WORLD TOUR 2016 in San Francisco – When: July 22nd (Fri), 2016 | Door 6:00pm, Show 7:00pm Where: The Regency Ballroom* MAP Tickets Coming Soon!!!If you want to be fussy, this is a marketing tie-in but there's no J-Pop Fest relationship that goes deeper than badging and sales promotion. Two entities decided it was much better to support the other one than to compete. Kyary has played the Regency before, in February 2014 for her Nanda Collection World Tour. Her org seemed to like theaters with real stages and gilt plaster, and I guess they still do. That was a scene. What'll she do this time, now that she's all grown up? Munchkins from Mars, in a playroom from a bad dream after too much candy2014 report at Tokyo Girls' Update
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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 23, 2016 5:24:49 GMT -5
Possibly the answer to "What's next for Kyary?" is, the same with more expensive toys. I'd be hard put to tell you what this song or its music video are about, other than a vague wish to be amazing. However, the wish seems to have been granted. The title concept plays off a phonetic similarity between Japanese and English. 最高 (saikou) = greatest, highest, utmost, the extreme, the supreme, the top, the best. Sai & Co might be English for Sai & Company, if there were such a thing. Otherwise, it's just Sai (meaning utmost, the limit) & Kou (high; tall; expensive). It feels to me like a kind of formula for extreme commercial success, but your guess is as good. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - 最&高 (Sai & Co) (Full ver.)2016 APR 18 by kyarypamyupamyuTV (03:50) Kyary Pamyu Pamyu 12th Single「Sai&Co」 On sale 2016 April 20 Sound Produced by Yasutaka Nakata(CAPSULE)
Director:Hideyuki Tanaka(Framegraphics) Director of Photography:Kazunali Tajima(MILD) Lighting Director:HIGASIX Production Designer:Tateo Yanagimachi / Toshihide Sakai(TATEO) Stylist:Kumiko Iijima Hair & Makeup:Minako Suzuki Choreographer:Maiko Special Equipment:Hiroyuki Inoue(SCREW INC)News roundup at the kyarychan Tumblr kyarychan.tumblr.com/tagged/sai-%26-kouSong lyrics translated, but I think they screwed this up kyarychan.tumblr.com/post/143079902511/lyrics-sai-kou-最高-the-bestCoca-Cola TVCM Stamp Bottle 60 Sec.2016 MAR 20 by コカ・コーラ (01:01) Sixty-second CM for Coke leveraging KPP's Sai & CoKyary acts. Recycles a lot of clips from a "making of" news special about the music vid. She's convincing, in a plasticky way.
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Post by thegl0r on Apr 23, 2016 18:43:24 GMT -5
Ah, Kyary, I can't help loving the vids and smiling.
She's almost cute enough to make me drink Coke even if there is an alternative drink available, and without begrudging having to do so.
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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 23, 2016 22:24:16 GMT -5
Ah, Kyary, I can't help loving the vids and smiling. She's almost cute enough to make me drink Coke even if there is an alternative drink available, and without begrudging having to do so. I forwarded this to the director of CCC Japan. They need to know it's working, so Kyary can continue to afford space walkers, robots sentient strawberries and giant pink rolling doughnuts.
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Post by tangerinesun on Jun 15, 2016 18:24:28 GMT -5
Passed this over, before. kyary pamyu pamyu - Mondai Girl2015 MAR 16 by kyarypamyupamyuTV kyary pamyu pamyu 10th Single "Mondai Girl" produced by Yasutaka Nakata(CAPSULE)
Director:Jun Tamikai Stylist:Kumiko Iijima (IUGO) Hair & Makeup:Minako Suzuki Producer:Hiroshi Takayama (TC MAX)All the usual suspects participated again a year ago in 2015 for this reflective look at what it means to be KPP in a boring workaday world. Article on EN Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondai_GirlAs has happened before, the interpretation of a KPP music video is even more fun than the video itself. Song lyrics at the Kyarychan Tumblr blog kyarychan.tumblr.com/post/113922566436/lyrics-mondai-girl That translation is poetically not so hot, but gets the job done. I guess this is really about me not being excited enough to go mix with the KPP fan brigades at her upcoming show in San Francisco. Why is that, Sunny, are you sick or something? It's just that KPP songs have all been B-sides for the last umpteen months and I'm guesstimating that the costs are greater than the benefits here. All the downside of a major concert, when actually it's more of a fan convention with floor show. I feel like I've already got the hang of this and there might be more to experience in the music videos than in the music itself.
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 26, 2016 10:57:29 GMT -5
KOM-tan came to see my show!
Midnight tweet from the Regency Ballroom on Saturday morning. 90% of the value of the 2016 J-Pop Summit would have fit inside a hula hoop.
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Post by lazybone712 on Aug 22, 2016 22:48:23 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Aug 23, 2016 2:36:46 GMT -5
This grownup Kyary-chan has some stuff up her sleeve for real. That looks ridiculously cool.
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Post by lazybone712 on Sept 4, 2016 23:18:57 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Sept 5, 2016 18:35:40 GMT -5
Oh, this is good. Her photos aren't consecutive, so the pineapple pic might be two weeks old. August 23-26 KPP vacationed in the Philippines, which drove the PH followers bats. On the 27th, she was due to be back at work in Niigata. As far as you the fan are to know, KPP was just winging it bachelorette with her BFF Mami Sasazaki. Whose hair would look more blue on the ends, but it's soaking wet. Probably needs a 2-hour appointment to get it fixed after all the sun and salt. I went traveling as a twosome with Mami-chan, 4 days / 3 nights on Cebu Island〜! It was so much fun! Mem & o & riesFair skin begging to be fried, and somewhat was.Scenery〜☺️ The two of them are no bigger than a couple of lizards. Kaiten shita — I did a rotationBy the sound of things, the turnaround wasn't completely on purpose. Submersible camera an available extra with the dive package?
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