History Music / KyaryPamyuPamyu

She is strongly associated with the Harajuku ''kawaisa'' fashion culture (and was known as the "Queen of Harajuku" even before she hit it big). She's also known for her music videos, which tend to be [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs flat-out trippy]] and often psychedelic to the point that some have called her "more gaga than [[Music/LadyGaga Gaga]]". It's rare that a music video from her ''isn't'' some degree of batshit insane. Unlike many ladies in her sector of the business, Kyary is known to have a lot of creative control with the production of her videos.

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** The old guy/bodhisattva in her music video for Fashion Monster slices stalks, captioned with the following AcceptableTargets: コンサバ/conservatives, チャラ男/douchebags (specifically, the "guy with a fake tan picking up girls" kind), 野菜/vegetables, 徹夜/[studious] all-nighters and something that's censored (possibly beer.)

Kyary has toured Japan several times, performing at the hallowed Nippon Budokan twice (in 2012 and 2016). She's also performed smaller shows abroad, including a couple in California. She was invited to perform at the ultra-high-profile Coachella festival in 2020 – which her idols Perfume had done the year before – but the show was cancelled due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic which hit the USA especially hard; Kyary's now scheduled to make her Coachella debut in 2022.

* CelebrityEndorsement: Appeared in an ad promoting UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS faceplates, which, despite being a Japanese commercial, quickly became popular in America as well. It might have something to do with the fact that she gave [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros Mario]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda Toon Link]], [[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} Pikachu]], and [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Isabelle]] all [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MpQSvaduzk&feature=youtu.be adorably classy makeovers]].

* [[WidgetSeries Widget Artist]]: In case it wasn't obvious.
-->'''Kyary:''' It would make me so happy if the [cover of ''Nanda Collection''] made you mutter, [[IncrediblyLamePun What the!?]]

** SongAssociation: "PONPONPON" itself has appeared in two games: Konami's ''[=DanceEvolution=] Arcade'', and Sega's ''VideoGame/{{Maimai}}''. However it's almost always associated with the former instead, at least in Asia (since the former also comes with a novel way of playing by means of a Kinect sensor).

* PromotedFanboy: She had every volume of ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' growing up, and has now recorded several theme songs for it, including "Family Party" and "Kimi Ni 100%". She has also voiced herself in an episode of the anime.

** The music video for "PON PON PON" opens with Kyary pulling a bottomless microphone stand out of her ear and wielding it in the vein of Music/FreddieMercury. Jun Tamukai, who directed the music video, confirmed in an interview that the similarities were intentional.

* ShoutOut: The video for "Mondai Girl" features the characters for "mondai" ("問題") in the formation of the monolith from ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey''. She's then seen in her own version of the "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" sequence.

* CoverVersion: She's thrice covered songs by capsule (her producer Yasutaka Nakata's main gig): "jelly", "Super Scooter Happy" (from ''Nanda Collection'') and "do do pi do" (from ''Pikapika Fantajin'').

** Every song and video so far is really cheery, riddled with pink, and sugary sweet. Taken UpToEleven in "Candy Candy"

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Several of Kyary's song liberally borrow from other genres for an indescribable genre mash. See "Invader Invader", a surf rock song with dubstep breaks, chiptune effects and a piano played with classical training. Her most diverse single is "Fashion Monster", which grafts together J-pop, hi-NRG and grunge with EDM-style "tape stops", more chiptune synths and a snare drum played somewhere between "marching band" and "free jazz freakout".

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Into Darkness", a non-released song used as part of the ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' soundtrack, has a sound more similar to capsule than to the usual bubbly tunes Kyary sings.

* "Jumping Up" (2021)
* "Dodonpa" (2021)

** "Maybe Baby" is this for the VideoGame/{{Ninjala}} AnimatedAdaptation

Kyary has toured Japan several times, performing at the hallowed Nippon Budokan twice (in 2012 and 2016). She's also performed smaller shows abroad, including a couple in California. She was invited to perform at the ultra-high-profile Coachella festival in 2020 – which her idols Perfume had done the year before – but the show was cancelled due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic which hit the USA especially hard.

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ), born 1993/01/29, real name Kiriko Takemura (竹村桐子), is a Japanese pop singer from Tokyo produced by Yasutaka Nakata – the same guy who writes all of Music/{{Perfume}}'s songs – and originally signed to Warner Music Japan. She started out as a fashion blogger, model, and designer of false eyelashes before Nakata discovered her in 2011 and convinced her to try singing. The resulting single, "PONPONPON", and especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g its music video,]] went viral within seconds and catapulted her into the upper echelons of Jpop stardom.

She's a '''huge''' fan of ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' and has contributed at least two theme songs for the anime, along with a couple of [[VoiceOnlyCameo vocal cameos]].