Random Fact: Aya & BoA Are Friends

maiZe — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:53:06 +0000

So, about half an hour ago, I realized that Aya and BoA are good friends…. And seeing as I haven’t updated this blog in AGES, I thought this would be as good as anything to update it with. XD

Funnily enough, I have somehow already forgotten how I got to the first link that made me stumble upon this realization.

Something (I don’t think I was browsing through my feed reader, and a quick glance through my twitter account doesn’t show any link to this… So I really have NO clue how I got to this in the first place. -_-;) had a link to this video of BoA on MTV’s Iggy. I don’t watch MTV (or rather MTV Canada) so, I’m not quite sure what this Iggy thing is, but basically, BoA was on Iggy promoting her (at that time) upcoming debut English album and they surprised her with a comment and question from her “best friend in Japan, pop superstar Aya Matsuura”. It’s around the 3:30 mark.

mtviggy.com | korean

~~I would have embedded the video, but the embed code given on the site wasn’t complete.~~*

Since the embed code was weird, I went to YouTube hoping to find the clip there so I could embed it. Unfortunately, I didn’t find the clip, but I found a cute subbed appearance of Aya’s on Hey!Hey!Hey! from 2008, where it seems she pulls some strings (or something) to get some time to hang out with her friend. It does seem like they’re quite close and they engage in adorable banter in this clip.

I hope that my next post on this blog happens a little faster than 3 months later. -_-

PS. I was highly disappointed a few weeks ago when I went to the music store hoping to buy BoA’s album, only to find out that Canada has a late release date. It’s supposed to be out April 7th, so here’s hoping my local music store has it this coming Tuesday, when I’ll be at the mall having dinner before head to (funnily enough) my Japanese class.

*EDIT: It seems there was something up with the page on chrome. I loaded it on Firefox and the embed code was complete there.*

‘From That Sky ~Kaedama wa Katamen de~’ – Totally Electric

maiZe — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:05:31 +0000

I have recently become obsessed with Aya’s ‘From That Sky ~Kaedama wa Katamen de~’ – the 8th song on her 2nd album… Why, you ask? Well, it just so happened to be the opening number to Aya’s latest concert DVD and man, oh man, was it ever hot!

It a great song in general, but holy moly! Live band, hot Aya, rocking performance…. This just goes to show that ‘old lady Aya’ can still pull off amazing, energy filled performances. I haven’t actually sat down and picked a favourite song out of the concert yet, but this is definitely near the top of the list.

[See post to watch Flash video]

So, who watched that and didn’t enjoy the superbness that is Matsuura Aya? … What?! Is someone raising their hand back there?! o_O Are you sure you’re human?! XD

But seriously, just thought I’d share that performance because it totally knocked my socks off, and set the bar for that amazing concert that followed that opener!

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Random Fact: Aya & BoA Are Friends

‘From That Sky ~Kaedama wa Katamen de~’ – Totally Electric