If Indonesia have a person like Cinta Laura, the most talked and mocked, teenage artist because of her bad pronunciation of Bahasa, then maybe Weezer might get the same reaction from the Japanese.
Weezer has covered the BoA's ballad song called Meri-Kuri. The song can be found as a bonus track in Weezer latest album "The Red Album", the Japanese Version which is due released last wednesday. The Red Album is Weezer's sixth album.
I personally dislike this cover version because it's so not Weezer, and Rivers Cuomo sings Japanese so badly. It sounds very karaoke-ish, borrowing Simon Cowell's favorite line. The reason why Weezer picked the BoA's song its because it was suggested by Kyoko Ito, Rivers Cuomo's wife (They got married in 2006), who's Japanese. And by the first time he heard it, he was instantly taken by the song. Well the original song itself has been voted as the best winter song ever in Japan. So i guess Meri-Kuri is quite a popular song indeed.
But, as a wrap, considered that Japanese people also speak English badly, i guess, it's turns out ok.
Well these are the original version and the cover version of Meri-Kuri tell me what you think!
1 comment:
I agree that this is not the Weezer we know and love but for Rivers to cover a foreign song and in the native tongue, gotta give respect. I personally like the song and maybe one of my favorites due to it’s rarity.
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