Bonnie Pink

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Kaori Asada (浅田 香織, Asada Kaori, born 16 April 1973), known by her stage name Bonnie Pink, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician. She writes and composes all her songs, and plays guitar and piano. Asada has said that the name Bonnie Pink is random and has no special meaning; she chose it because it was easy to remember and because she thought the words were cute together.

History

Bonnie Pink debuted in 1995 with the single "

Evil & Flowers (1998), while in isolation in the Swedish countryside. She hoped to find inspiration there, but became depressed. She put her feelings of frustration into the songs. [citation needed
] She went to New York alone to take a vacation and to study music after having released her third album in 1998. She went back in 1999 and contracted with
Warner Music Japan
.

Let Go

On her fourth album,

Golden Tears, which features the single "So Wonderful", came out in 2005,[3] and she performed at SXSW that same year as part of Japan Nite.[4]

"Love Is Bubble"

Bonnie Pink released the single "Love Is Bubble" in May 2006. Her June 2006 single "A Perfect Sky", featured in an Anessa makeup commercial with popular model Yuri Ebihara, reached number 5 on the Oricon singles charts,[5] making it the most successful single in Bonnie Pink's career. Her "best of" album sold out quickly on Amazon Japan and reached number two on the Oricon charts and continued to chart in the top 30 becoming one of the top selling albums of the year. In November 2006, she was featured in M-Flo's single "Love Song". The single was a hit for both M-Flo and Bonnie Pink, and debuted at number 7 on the Oricon daily charts and reached number 9 on the Oricon weekly chart,[6] gaining Bonnie Pink another top 10 single.[3]

Themes for anime

Her song "Cotton Candy" was used as the ending theme for the anime Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor in 2005, and "Love Is Bubble" was the theme song for the Japanese movie Memories of Matsuko, in which she also featured. Her single "Last Kiss", which appears as the last song on her greatest hits album, was the ending theme to the popular Gantz anime.[7]

"Anything for You"

Bonnie Pink's single "

Watashitachi no Kyōkasho ("Our Textbooks") a dark, melancholy drama about a young girl's suicide and the effect on her school. The single "Water Me" reached number 6 on Oricon on its release date and number 8 on the weekly charts. On 7 July 2007, Bonnie Pink performed at Live Earth
in Kyoto.

Thinking Out Loud

Bonnie Pink's album Thinking Out Loud was released on 25 July 2007, her first album to be sold in both CD and CD+DVD formats. The first press of both editions came with an access ticket containing the AD/Password to reserve tickets for her tour, "Bonnie Pink Tour 2007 'Thinking Out Loud' Final at Nippon Budokan" on a special designated website. The CD pre-orders made the album number 1 on the Amazon.com Japan Top Sellers. The album debuted at number 4 on the Oricon Daily Charts and number 5 on the weekly charts selling approximately 53,605 copies. As of 5 September 2007, her album had sold approximately 90,000 copies. Bonnie Pink was on her "Thinking Out Loud Tour" from late 2007 to early 2008.

I and Ai

In April 2008, Bonnie Pink made a guest performances for

244 Endli-x album I and Ai
. She was featured on the last track, "Say Anything", which she wrote the lyrics to with Domoto.

"Ring a Bell"

The English version of Bonnie Pink's single "

Kane o Narashite", was released on 6 August 2008. Bonnie Pink's thirtieth single, "Joy / Happy Ending", was released on 8 April 2009. One
, her 10th studio album, followed on 13 May 2009.

Discography

Main article: Bonnie Pink discography

References

  1. ^ "ツアーファイナルは10/19(金)なんばHatch！ 震災以降の揺れ動く感情を丁寧に紡いだ 2年ぶりのニューアルバム『Chasing Hope』 BONNIE PINKインタビュー&動画コメント - インタビュー＆レポート | ぴあ関西版WEB". kansai.pia.co.jp. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  2. ^ "CM曲で大ブレイク、BONNIE PINKインタビュー。 | Narinari.com". www.narinari.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  3. ^ a b "BONNIE PINK [Oricon Ranking]". ORICON NEWS. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  4. ^ "JPN Girls Nite US tour 2005". www.sister.co.jp. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  5. ^ "A Perfect Sky | BONNIE PINK". ORICON NEWS. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Love Song | m-flo". ORICON NEWS. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  7. ^ IMDB, IMDB. "Gantz IMDB". IMDB. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

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