{"id":2181,"date":"2012-08-30T14:13:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T14:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2012-08-30T14:13:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T14:13:11","slug":"candy-pop-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/candy-pop-music\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Candy&#8221; Pop Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you already know, the Japanese pop music scene is rather&#8230; eccentric. The variety is huge:<\/p>\n<p>Rock pop bands like: Tokio<\/p>\n<p>Solo pop singers like: \u6d5c\u5d0e \u3042\u3086\u307f\u00a0(\u306f\u307e\u3055\u304d\u3000\u3042\u3086\u307f\/Hamasaki Ayumi) \u00a0or \u5b87\u591a\u7530 \u30d2\u30ab\u30eb (\u3046\u305f\u3060\u3000\u3072\u304b\u308b)\u00a0Utada Hikaru (not the most recent I know, but I don&#8217;t know the names of anyone more current)<\/p>\n<p>A huge number of boy groups (think Backstreet Boys) from various eras like: SMAP (hitting their 40&#8217;s now), \u5d50 (\u3042\u3089\u3057) Arashi (hitting their 30&#8217;s now) and young groups like Hey Say Jump (a play on the word \u5e73\u6210 (\u3078\u3044\u305b\u3044) Heisei, meaning everyone was born after 1988, the start of the current Emperor&#8217;s reign, named the Heisei Period).<\/p>\n<p>Smaller in number, but still popular are the girl groups like: Perfume (even I like them)\u00a0or the new comic (satiric?) girl group \u3082\u3082\u3044\u308d\u30af\u30ed\u30fc\u30d0\u30fcZ (Momoiro Clover Z).<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most popular among young girls are the &#8220;team&#8221; girl groups like: AKB48 and all their spinoffs, each consisting of 48 members (NMB48, HKT48, JKT48, and more).<\/p>\n<p>All of these styles and bands have culminated with\u00a0\u304d\u3083\u308a\u30fc\u3071\u307f\u3085\u3071\u307f\u3085 <a title=\"Kyary Pamyu Pamyu\" href=\"http:\/\/wmg.jp\/kyary\/\">Kyary Pamyu Pamyu<\/a> (officially\u00a0\u304d\u3083\u308d\u3089\u3044\u3093\u3061\u3083\u308d\u3093\u3077\u308d\u3063\u3077\u304d\u3083\u308a\u30fc\u3071\u307f\u3085\u3071\u307f\u3085\u00a0Caroline Charonplop Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, according to Wikipedia), and her style that I&#8217;m going to call Candy Pop. Or maybe Silly Pop. Cutesy Pop? (there&#8217;s probably a popular term for her style, but I personally don&#8217;t know it)<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s only 19, but she has already become famous as a fashion blogger based out of \u539f\u5bbf (\u306f\u3089\u3058\u3085\u304f\/Harajuku), in \u6771\u4eac (\u3068\u3046\u304d\u3087\u3046\/Tokyo) which is considered the fashion capital of \u65e5\u672c (\u306b\u3063\u307d\u3093\/Japan). Her quirky\/cute style made her popularity rise very quickly. She soon started modeling her unique outfits for \u96d1\u8a8c (\u3056\u3063\u3057\/magazines) and has become a fashion leader (unbelievably, in my mind) and is now co-hosting an evening variety show. As is common with popular \u30c6\u30ec\u30f3\u30c8 (literally &#8220;talent&#8221;, but means &#8220;celebrity&#8221;), she started making pop music.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I talking about this now? Well, one of her singles,\u00a0\u3064\u3051\u307e\u3064\u3051\u308b (Tsukema Tsukeru), which as far as I can tell is not real Japanese, but is referring to \u3064\u3051\u307e\u3064\u3052\u00a0(tsuke matsuge\/fake eyelashes), has been getting a lot of airplay on TV recently and it&#8217;s stuck in my head. I can&#8217;t get it out and it&#8217;s driving me nuts! Now, it can be stuck in your head too, courtesy of the video below! Note the style which is apparently popular among the \u539f\u5bbf (\u306f\u3089\u3058\u3085\u304f\/Harajuku) crowd.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u304d\u3083\u308a\u30fc\u3071\u307f\u3085\u3071\u307f\u3085 - \u3064\u3051\u307e\u3064\u3051\u308b , Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Tsukematsukeru\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NLy4cvRx7Vc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a better example of her very unique style is &#8220;Pon Pon Pon&#8221;, featuring popular\u00a0comedienne\/dancer\u00a0Naomi Watanabe:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u304d\u3083\u308a\u30fc\u3071\u307f\u3085\u3071\u307f\u3085 - PONPONPON , Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - PONPONPON\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yzC4hFK5P3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you already know, the Japanese pop music scene is rather&#8230; eccentric. The variety is huge: Rock pop bands like: Tokio Solo pop singers like: \u6d5c\u5d0e \u3042\u3086\u307f\u00a0(\u306f\u307e\u3055\u304d\u3000\u3042\u3086\u307f\/Hamasaki Ayumi) \u00a0or \u5b87\u591a\u7530 \u30d2\u30ab\u30eb (\u3046\u305f\u3060\u3000\u3072\u304b\u308b)\u00a0Utada Hikaru (not the most recent I know, but I don&#8217;t know the names of anyone more current) A huge number of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/candy-pop-music\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2733,90145,90147,13221,548071,2812,90146],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-j-pop","tag-japanese-music","tag-japanese-pop-culture","tag-jpop","tag-music","tag-pop-culture","tag-pop-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6170,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/6170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}