Well, I'm confused. Just what was this all about? I was under the impression we were talking about someone who's alive, not dead in the ground for nearly twenty years. And, with no pictures, how do we know if she was a four-alarm beauty, or a train wreck? Sheesh!
Maybe, but theres more cosmetic surgery then nature on that particular star.
My favorate japanese girl singer is Utada, if only because she seems a better singer then the rest (if not looks).
Who's that japanese singer again? that one that apparently makes japanese blokes blood boil....aw bugger it ive forgotten her name!....ohwell, anyway, she's a fice peice of ***...whatever her name is, komi?...kumi?...koma! blah, i should pay more attention to trivial celebrity when i go to japan....
My girlfriend likes that ai otsuka chick or whatever her name is....she only plays her goddam songs every day....man, the music...just...so...aaaaaaghhh!!
I know the lyrics off by heart now and sometimes find myself humming one of her stupid cuddly love-fluff songs....
My girlfriend likes that ai otsuka chick or whatever her name is....she only plays her goddam songs every day....man, the music...just...so...aaaaaaghhh!!
I love Sakuranbo... but then, I like goofy cute stuff like that. If you watch the video, you get the impression that, as normal in a lot of pop videos, it supports and reinforces traditional value systems.
At least that otsuka chick looks half decent, cuddly wuv-fluff songs aside she's okay to look at.
Edit: i forgot to mention, my girlfriend has a killer singing voice, if she wasnt so shy she could clean house in the Japanese music industry, but bah, just like chicks not to recognised actual talents of theirs.
I wish she would become a pop-star, i could be a house-husband in our mansion (if you can fit one in Japan, apparently its 70% mountains and the rest is 30% people! ).
Hibari Misora (美空ひばり, May 29, 1937 - June 24, 1989) was a Japanese singer and the predominant figure in postwar enka music. Born Kazue Kato (加藤和枝) in Yokohama, she was an accomplished singer by the age of seven, and appeared in film for the first time at age 12. Between 1949's Kanashiki kuchibue and 1971's Onna no Hanamichi, she appeared in over 60 movies.
In April of 1987, on the way to a performance in Fukuoka, she suddenly collapsed. Rushed to hospital, she was diagnosed with bilateral femoral necrosis brought on by chronic hepatitis. Until August she was confined to hospital and eventually showed signs of recovery. She commenced recording a new song Midaregami in October, and in 1988 performed at a concert called Fushichou konsaato (Phoenix Concert) at the Tokyo Dome. Against overwhelming pain in her legs, she performed a total of 39 songs while assuring her fans that she had completely recovered. However, on 24 May 1989, having been re-admitted to the Juntendou hospital in Tokyo, she died from interstitial pneumonitis at the age of 52.
In July 1989 after her death, she became the first female recipient of the National Prize of Honour (国民栄誉賞) for her longstanding contributions to the music industry.
In 1993, the Misora Hibari-kan opened in Arashiyama, Kyoto . Its popularity with fans and tourists has endured through to the present.
Her most famous song, "Kawa no nagare no yō ni," (1989) was voted #1 in a 1997 NHK poll of the best Japanese songs of all time.
Edit: i forgot to mention, my girlfriend has a killer singing voice, if she wasnt so shy she could clean house in the Japanese music industry, but bah, just like chicks not to recognised actual talents of theirs.
At least then she can be popular at Karaoke then, right?
nurizeko said:
I wish she would become a pop-star, i could be a house-husband in our mansion (if you can fit one in Japan, apparently its 70% mountains and the rest is 30% people! ).
From what I know of the pop industry, they would most likely try to keep you a secret. A pop star w/ a gaijin boyfriend is bad for business... just look at what happened to Hamasaki Ayumi's boy-friend, they had to kick up some rumour that he was gay just for damage control.
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