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Pika Pika Fantajin is Japan's Queen of J-Pop, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's third studio album..."The universe that Japanese entertainer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu has created is a cute but complex one. She has become one of her native country's biggest musical acts, thanks to a mix of irresistible pop songs, unique fashion and her eye-popping music videos. Yet she is not following in Hello Kitty's cuddly path. The ""Kawaii Ambassador"" (a diplomat for Japanese cuteness) undercuts her image with dashes of creepiness and surrealism . and lots and lots of fake eyelashes. Now, she is spreading it to the world.
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- Product Dimensions : 5.59 x 0.39 x 4.92 inches; 3.21 Ounces
- Manufacturer : Warner
- Original Release Date : 2014
- Date First Available : July 25, 2014
- Label : Warner
- ASIN : B00LGBFXSG
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #39,922 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #19,544 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #25,346 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
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By Bambi on August 24, 2022
However,I have to give Pika Pika Fantajin 4 stars,and if a half star rating were possible,I'd give it 3 and half.It sounds harsh,but I'm not really feeling this album.The other two albums took a little while to grow on me,but I don't see that happening with this one.I just feel like each song sounds the same,or that I've heard each one already.Nothing really drew me in,save for Kira Kira Killer(love it).I really wanted to love this one.
Here are my favorites:
Pika Pika Fantajin
Kira Kira Killer
Yumeno Hajima Ring Ring
Serious Hitomi
Family Party
Tokyo Highway
Koi Koi Koi
Least Favorites:
Mottai-Nightland
Do Do Pi Do
Ring A Bell
Sunngoi Aura
Explorer
These are just my thoughts and opinions.I still love Kyary,just expected more.
Concerning the jewel case that my copy of the CD came in, the grip which holds the CD is broken and the hinges for the front of the case seems too small; it feels like it's either going to scrape the case or break off entirely.
Other than that, I'm very happy with my purchase. She always puts me in a good mood! (Or if I'm already in a good mood, a better mood!)
By 13-5 on March 20, 2018
Concerning the jewel case that my copy of the CD came in, the grip which holds the CD is broken and the hinges for the front of the case seems too small; it feels like it's either going to scrape the case or break off entirely.
Other than that, I'm very happy with my purchase. She always puts me in a good mood! (Or if I'm already in a good mood, a better mood!)
My favorite songs are Kira Kira Killer and Koi Koi Koi.
Download card worked
No scratches on vinyl disc was actually brand new and had track names
Looks so cute on turntable omg
Sorry for bad audio quality point is I love it and so will you if you love kyary
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Obviously when referring to Kyary's music most of the credit has to go to Yasutaka Nakata, who not only produces all of Kyary's musical output, but has been crafting top class electronic pop for well over a decade with Capsule and Perfume. I'm far from an expert on J-pop, in fact outside of YMO and that band's members respective solo projects, and with rare exceptions like Jet Set Radio's soundtrack, most of the Japanese music I listen to is nowhere near as unabashedly 'pop' as Kyary's music, however nearly everything I've heard from the Nakata stable has been really well produced (over compression and 'loudness war' mastering aside), masterfully arranged and most importantly catchy.
This album is not a huge departure from Nanda Collection's musical aesthetics but there are subtle differences I can detect. Firstly, on Nanda, there seemed be a a clear synthesis of the modern (synth timbres, production techniques, EDM/brostep influence etc) and the traditional (pentatonic melodies reminiscent of Japanese folk music, kazoo like synths implying hichiriki's etc), plus a real sense of childhood and innocence, which I felt was summoned up excellently by the use of struck idiophones like glockenspiels and music boxes, and the kind of propulsive, march-like rhythms on the songs, making for a kind of kawaii version of the Nutcracker. This as well as the ever present influence of video game soundtracks on most pop music of the last 20 years, specifically the nostalgia for 8- and 16-bit era tones.
On Pika Pika Fantajin, instead of the clear idiosyncrasy and cohesion of Nanda, instead the overall effect is of slightly greater variety and diversity across the album, but never sacrificing the ear worm factor for the sake of these goals. After the short introductory title track (again similar to Nanda and Revolution), we're straight into a run of three of the most catchy and immediately striking songs here, all rightly released as promotional singles. Each speaks for itself and are about as strong as anything Kyary has released, especially 'Kira Kira Killer', when those vocals harmonise upwards at the end of the chorus is pure joy. Then comes a slight misstep with 'Serious Hitomi' with some quite clunky distorted guitar parts that don't quite fit with the vibe of the rest of the album. But then we're back on form with a great cover of an old Capsule track, featuring some funky piano work at the core of the song, before onto another single 'Family Party' which again is a great track with a chorus that will lodge itself into your brain for days. Then comes the only fully English sung track 'Ring a Bell' which I wasn't sure about at first but once you get over it's high level of repetition, it's charms begin to shine through, particularly the call and response synth lines. 'Tokyo Highway' is a great electropop track but possibly due to quite uncharacteristic instrumentation could quite easily be a Perfume track. Next up are two really quite interesting songs, 'Koi Koi Koi', with it's eerily bouncing piano and strings, again a music box and popcorn synth twinkling around overhead, and 'Sungoi Aura', which also feels like a march with it's pumping tuba plodding underneath while flutes, reeds and synths emulating all sorts of strange instruments give a kind of folksy vibe out. Finally, 'Explorer' rounds things up, and is probably the Kyary-est song here. with big brash drum beats creating again that upbeat march sensibility with playful flutes soloing between lyrics.
Overall, another excellent album to add to a stellar catalogue. Kyary (and Nakata) haven't veered that far from the formula that has made her the most recognisable Japanese performer in the West and so-called 'Queen of J-pop'. If it it ain't broke... (Incidentally, this album's number of tracks and overall length is, give or take a few seconds, equal to her previous two albums - 12 tracks, 47 and a half minutes. That really is sticking to a winning formula.)
Also, something about the system that Japan uses to produce it's pop stars and it's 'idol' culture never really sat well with me and my views on how art should be separate from commerce, pop music as a business (half of the songs here have already been licensed as 'CM songs' or music for TV adverts) and the inherent cynicism and conservatism of industry, but this setup whereby Kyary handles the visual and presentational side of the KPP 'brand' while Yasutaka Nakata handles the nitty gritty of actually creating the music, shows that the system can work, and work well. Most artists who write their own music struggle to juggle the obligations of touring and promoting their current album as well as writing new music for future releases. With this setup, whilst Kyary fulfils all her public and media duties, Nakata can concentrate on just writing quality tunes, and with 3 great albums in as many years (not to mention Perfume's outstanding 'Level 3' album), the merits of the producer/performer exclusive relationship are there on show.
Finally, after having probably written far too much for a review of a cutesy pop album, I'd like to mention something about the Kyary Pamyu Pamyu persona that really interests me and is also something that many Western female singers could reflect upon. Kyary's image (to me at least) doesn't have any sex appeal yet it isn't knowingly unsexy, it's like it exists outside the spectrum of sexiness that many US/UK singers (in the pop sphere anyway) seem to either reinforce positively or actively try to negate in some way. The only important factor seeming to be the kawai-sa of her appearance and demeanour, and in fact Kyary's hyper kawaii elements almost become a grotesque parody of that culture itself. I'm not saying this obsession with cuteness is any better than a fixation on sexiness but I find it intriguing that Kyary seems to be breaking out of the Asian market into the West with a persona so at odds with that of other luminaries of pop music.
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