about half her music sounds relentlessly upbeat to me and the other half sounds like it's pushing the concept of relentlessly upbeat until it breaks.
Yeah, that's Kyary; she takes the idea of cute and then pushes it until she comes out the other side.* That album cover does a pretty good job of visual shorthand for her entire style.
She's not quite regular J-pop, which tends to swing a bit more in either the acoustic direction or the idol-who-can't-sing-that-well direction, from what I've listened to lately. (Not that that's representative overall, just the trends I've been hearing on the top chart stuff for the last while.) If you're looking for more, Tommy february6 (and her other name Tommy heavenly6) has some similar stuff landing on the more sincere side of upbeat, particularly the Tommy Candy Shop album.
*which, for all people make fun of them for being cutesy, seems to be the point of a lot of Harajuku and deco lolita type fashion. You want me to be cute? Well, fine, I'll pile on the cute until you choke on it.
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Yeah, that's Kyary; she takes the idea of cute and then pushes it until she comes out the other side.* That album cover does a pretty good job of visual shorthand for her entire style.
She's not quite regular J-pop, which tends to swing a bit more in either the acoustic direction or the idol-who-can't-sing-that-well direction, from what I've listened to lately. (Not that that's representative overall, just the trends I've been hearing on the top chart stuff for the last while.) If you're looking for more, Tommy february6 (and her other name Tommy heavenly6) has some similar stuff landing on the more sincere side of upbeat, particularly the Tommy Candy Shop album.
*which, for all people make fun of them for being cutesy, seems to be the point of a lot of Harajuku and deco lolita type fashion. You want me to be cute? Well, fine, I'll pile on the cute until you choke on it.