 Artist: Ai Otsuka: mp3 download Genre(s): Pop: Japan Discography:  Love Piece Year: 2007 Tracks: 11  Ai am Best Year: 2007 Tracks: 13  Renai Shashin Year: 2006 Tracks: 5  Love Song Year: 2006 Tracks: 8  Frienger Year: 2006 Tracks: 4  Smily Year: 2005 Tracks: 3  Single 680 Year: 2005 Tracks: 5  Neko ni Fusen Year: 2005 Tracks: 4  Encore Press Year: 2005 Tracks: 5  Love Punch Year: 2004 Tracks: 3  Love Jam Year: 2004 Tracks: 3  Planetarium Year: Tracks: 4  Love Cook Year: Tracks: 12  Chu Lip Year: Tracks: 4 As a dependant kindergarten instructor, it's little surprise that Osaka-born singer/songwriter Ai Otsuka was able to get a link with young Japanese music fans so cursorily into her calling. But spell her slight, high-pitched vocals and karaoke-friendly bubblegum drink down ar mandatory for whatsoever self-respecting J-pop perfection, and were crucial in capturing a loretta Young teenage audience, Otsuka's cunning appeal, centered around her down-to-earth fashion sense, eudaemonia lyrics, and sense of sense of humor, let likewise smitten a chord with older teens and working women. Debuting in 2003 and often deceptively viewed as the inheritor to Ayumi Hamasaki's throne as the queen of Japanese pop, Otsuka has written her have songs from the start of her career, plays pianissimo and guitar, and has a rougher, homier edge compared to virtually J-pop idols. Nonetheless, operating in a pop climate that does not realise the message of "overexposure," Otsuka has been able to gallop her strike to females among old age 16-30 by hosting a receiving set show up on the Internet and sublunary station JOQR, having her songs appear in television receiver commercials, and by pickings on spectacular performing roles. By cattle farm herself so widely, Otsuka has managed to fester up with her maturing fans. Having begun greco-Roman pianoforte lessons at the age of four, Otsuka (born September 9, 1983) was already committal to writing her have songs by the time she was 15, sending a self-produced demonstration mag tape soon later on to Japan's largest independent record label, Avex, the label that is home to former female J-pop icons Ayumi Hamasaki and Namie Amuro. Otsuka's former influences included Dreams Come True, one of Japan's biggest pop acts of the early '90s, and it was as a teenager that "Ai-chan" (besides nicknamed "Ai-chin") would pen her future breakthrough hit, "Sakuranbo," and other songs that would appear on her debut album, Love Punch, released in March 2004. By that time "Sakuranbo" had already spent several months on the Oricon Weekly singles chart. The song peaked at number phoebe, merchandising 700,000 copies and expiration on to spend more than 18 months on the charts. "Sexual love Punch" meanwhile peaked at number trey in the Oricon album charts, with first pressings of the record album advent with a 60-page booklet of Otsuka's have sketches and committal to writing. Around the time of the tone ending of Love Punch, Otsuka began a lighthearted five-minute wireless show broadcast four times a week on the Internet and sublunary station JOQR, highborn Otsuka Ai's Ai-r Jack, in which she answers listeners' queries on personal problems among other topics. She also began committal to writing, including a "Love Column," for girl's cartridge Zipper. Octet months after the vent of her debut, Otsuka released her mo album, Love Jam, the cover of which proverb her face spattered in strawberry jam. Equally suggestive were the lyrics to "Tsukune 70 Yen," a B-side to Otsuka's seventh single, "Kuroge Wagyu Jo Shiotan Yaki 680 Yen." Some commentators attributed this risqué trend to Otsuka's earthy Osaka humour. Controversial B-sides aside, "Sexual love Jam" was light on sanitized, punkey guitar riffs compared to its predecessor and concentrated more on wholesale balladry, but it's subdued nature did non forestall the record album debuting at phone number one in Japan. In spring 2005, Otsuka embarked on her first proper serial publication of nationwide concerts with her JAM PUNCH Tour 2005 -- Kondoru No Pantsu Ga Kuikondoru. The middle of the tour sawing machine Otsuka keep her first base issue one individual, the dual A-side "Smily"/"Bi-drama." Performing alongside other huge-selling J-pop acts care Orange Range and Puffy AmiYumi at the Ongaku to Higetachi Festival 2005 in Niigata Prefecture in September confirmed Otsuka's status as one of Japan's to the highest degree popular performers. Otsuka's third album, released in December 2005, kept the "sexual love" base on the menu. Titled "Erotic love Cook," it was the singer's third back-to-back album to hit the top spot, cursorily expiration on to shift C,000 copies, and featured singsong anthems such as "U-boat" and a loss with the jazzy "Tokyo Midnight." Otsuka continued to preserve active in 2006, authorship the individual "Like a Love?" for Avex labelmate Ami Suzuki, released in July of that year, and reprising her part in the picture interlingual rendition of the DVD drama Tokyo Friends, which strike pic theaters in Japan in August 2006. |
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