Willow Smith. Elle Fanning. Noah Cyrus. Jackie Evancho. Chris Brown. Whoever your favorite child star is, their career has just been obliterated by the new Queen of Pop, 7-year-old Mana Ashida. The adorable little slice of sunshine is the biggest thing in Japan since Tamagotchi. While you sit at home on your fat ass, Ashida [...]
The legendary T-ara were in Japan recently to promote the local release of their latest single “Lovey-Dovey” and their upcoming anthology of poorly-translated Korean hits Jewelry Box. T-ara’s usually known for lip syncing a lot of their performances, but at least when they’re in Korea they occasionally try to make it look real. Japan is [...]
Secret haven’t exactly blown up in Japan yet, but they’re one of the few Korean girl groups who are actually putting some real effort behind their Japanese promotions. While superstars T-ara have yet to release one original J-Pop song, Secret have already done two, complete with Japanese-language B-sides, as well as a six-track Japanese EP [...]
Shady ol’ T-ara have entered the race for the cheapest album artwork of the year with the covers for their upcoming Japanese album Jewelry Box. The album hits Japan on June 6th, and will be released in three different editions: Pearl, Sapphire, and Diamond. The gorgeous pink Candies commercial cover is the Pearl edition, and [...]
Last year T-ara were lucky enough to become the first Korean girl group to debut at the top of Japan’s ORICON singles chart with a debut single, but ever since then, it’s felt like they’ve really half-assed all their Japanese promotions. “BO PEEP BO PEEP” was good, but all their music videos since then have [...]
“Communication” is the B-side to Perfume‘s latest single “Spring of Life” (music video here), which just hit stores in Japan yesterday. Perfume’s b-sides are so good that they should just make all their single releases double A-sides, and “Communication” is no exception.
