Thursday, April 30, 2009

Beni (J-Pop)

Beni is the latest relaunch of Beni Arashino, who is trying to reboot her career (and is getting popular) by the same route that Thelma Aoyama did, from being the featured singer on a song (by Dozhi T), and then releasing her own single singing the song, but with the original "rapper" (like Soulja was for Thelma) as the feature on her own single.

I don't know much about her aside that I like her latest two singles, and she seems to be marked for a push which is a great thing for her career. Here is her latest single, Kiss Kiss Kiss, which I think is also a great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RkykFUBX50&feature=PlayList&p=969412E14568A524&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=6
Her initial career push had completely stalled a while ago, and with good reason, it involved boring single after boring single, completely uninspired. It makes me worried this latest comeback will be short lived, but who knows. (She has prior always been an artist whose presence and image outweighed her talent.)

You can see the video there, her record company disables the embedding for any video of her except live performances. (I'm not sure why, the single doesn't even have a DVD sold with it so what is the point. Force people to watch it on youtube?)

Some Links
http://www.youtube.com/user/BeniChanNeL - Her Youtube Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beni_Arashiro - Her Wikipedia Page

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