Up until recently, just about the only thing I knew about artist Nana Tanimura [谷村 奈南 ] was her single Sexy Senorita, a song I acquired through an ORICON compilation somebody had uploaded way back in 2008- The tune was upbeat and genki, and my initial impressions was that it was very much in the key of artists like BoA, a fun, danceable song, and it ended up on a compilation of my own which I listened to incessantly thereafter!
Fast forward about two years, and I’m browsing by the highly informative j-pop site For The Love of J-Music, and find that someone has uploaded all Nana’s PVs. “Hmmm, I wouldn’t mind seeing the video for Sexy Senorita”, I think to myself! I click the link to investigate further, and when the images open up, I am overwhelmed by something I’d heretofore never known:
Nana Tanimura is FRICKING Gorgeous!
I’m sitting there totally slackjawed as the photo images of her CD singles start opening up, and I cannot believe that up until then I’d never known how she looked! I mean, I know a song is supposed to stand by itself without looks or image deciding if it is “good” or not, but HOLY HELL this put “Sexy Senorita” into a NEW light!!!
With features that immediately reminded me of Eriko Sato a la Cutie Honey or even Ishikawa Rika (hey, isn’t this how I described Takeuchi Yoshie? I must have a one-track mind!), this was an artist that FULLY utilized her attractive looks to promote her CDs, and each cover looked like a mini-page out of some sexy photobook!
The site featured six of Nana’s songs and I wasted NO TIME downloading those PVs, and once I got them onto my hard drive, wasted no time watching them, with the volume way up! Upon playing them, I was struck by two things:
One: “Sexy Senorita” was no fluke, as each of her singles retained that upbeat and catchy melodies I loved from that first song I knew, and in fact expanded beyond to street, techno and flat out pop music as well...
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Two: Nana is SEXY as HELL and has NO PROBLEM flaunting her “assets” in the videos, (to which she had an ample supply, truth be told, see pic below) thrusting and gyrating her body to the beat of her urban tunes, all to which adds up to a pretty HOT package!
After listening to these awesome songs, I was interested in hearing more from her, but by the information I’ve been able to read, seems like Nana’s spending most of her time going to Law School and preparing herself for the “real” world, and it seems these six singles are her entire discography!
Releasing two singles in 2007, two singles in 2008 and two more in 2009, it seems this is to be Nana’s working “pattern” and by that rule of thumb, we should be expecting something new from her in a few months! I’ll be waiting to hear what she does next, as well as waiting to SEE what she does next!
PS: Reading up on Nana, it seems she lived here in Hawaii for a few years! Wow, a girl with “local” roots! Whodathunkit?!
