musical find of the day

[acchikocchi]

Hirai Ken covers Ne-Yo: Because of You.

Oh man I'm sorry the concept just kills me. It's actually pretty good - decent arrangement and Hirai of course has the vocal chops to carry it off. (And the English pronunciation passes muster, too, aha.) It's not like he doesn't have a sizeable R&B-ish back catalogue, after all. But I can't help imagining what yr average Ne-Yo fan would think of this guy.

More music later.

edit: and of course I couldn't link Pop Star without watching it again. That remains one of Japan's best music videos ahahaha a thing of beauty and a joy forever.

Comments

[brustreet.livejournal.com]

I always think of Ken Hirai as the Babyface of Japan, so this made pretty intuitive sense to me. :)

Actually, now that we're on the subject, I think Babyface has said some complimentary things about KH's singing. I'd have to do some digging, but I thought he said KH would be a worldwide if he would release an English-language album.