PONPONPON

PONPONPON is a debut single by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu which gained international popularity due to the music video’s craziness, weirdness, and it’s cuteness.

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is a Japanese fashion designer, blogger, model, and a high school student. On July 20, 2011, her single debut, PONPONPON was released. In July 25, 2011, Warner Music Japan released the song’s music video. The music video, full of rainbow-colored, toy-filled and kawaii elements, gained international popularity.

Elements such as the dancing faceless characters, skulls, and eyeballs made the music video extremely weird.

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu or Kyary was born on January 29, 1993 and resides in the Harajuku district of Tokyo.

Kyary began her career as a model for Harajuku fashion magazines such as Kera! and Zipper. After achieving a measure of fame, she began to establish herself as a businesswoman by launching a line of fake eyelashes called “Harajuku Doll Eyelashes by Eyemazing x Kyary” and appearing at fashion shows. In April 2011, she frontlined the charity event “One Snap For Love” with legendary Japanese fashion editor and photographer Yasumasa Yonehara and Japanese brand 6%DOKIDOKI for victims of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

In July 2011 she began a music career by releasing her first single, “PONPONPON”. The music video, a psychedelic tribute to Kawaisa and Decora culture, was released to Youtube and became a viral hit. The single was produced by Yasutaka Nakata and is the first release from Kyary’s debut mini-album, Moshi Moshi Harajuku, to be released August 21st, 2011. “PONPONPON” was released on July 20, 2011, and quickly rose to the top of the iTunes charts in both Finland and Belgium. On July 31, 2011, the song entered Billboard Japan’s Hot 100s chart at 72.

The second single “Jelly” was released to iTunes internationally on August 3rd, 2011. A week after the release of her debut mini-album, Kyary will release an autobiography about her rise to fame titled, “Oh! My! God! Harajuku Girl”.