Ayumi Hamasaki RimmelSinger Hamasaki Ayumi (30) is top make-up brand Rimmel’s first Asia “image character”, she was promoted as Spokesmodel the 27th of this month. For the popular brand that’s expanding into 56 countries, Ayu will be shooting the advertisements with her strong eyes and sparkling eye-color… In the beginning of August she will have an interview / stage debut in every count...

Perfume Triangle By IAN MARTIN In a pop industry where music is usually a mere marketing tool to help sell an idol’s image, Japan’s busiest producer, Nakata Yasutaka, has pulled off a rare success by the way his music utterly subsumes the identities of Perfume’s three female members, turning them simply into girl-shaped robotic campaign dolls for his trademark brand of electropop...

Kimura Kaela By DANIEL ROBSON Is Kimura Kaela trying to bag Harry Potter as a boyfriend? First she dresses up as a pixie for the sleeve of 2006′s single “Magic Music”; then a year later she names a single after Samantha Stephens, the foxy sorceress from American sitcom “Bewitched”; and now this, her fifth album, bears the name “Hocus Pocus.” Bono got an ho...

  (Island Def Jam/Universal) Reviewer: JO TIMBUONG UTADA Hikaru looks like a wide-eyed Eskimo on the cover of her latest album This is the One. If you think this remark is harsh, well, be prepared for more. Utada - This is the one You don’t need the IQ of a rocket scientist to see that I’m really disappointed with this effort. Yes, the album had a No.1 debut in Japan but, in my opinion, it s...