Respect Yourself: “PONPONPON”  Duncan Cooper spends a lot of
time on the internet. Every other Monday, he pays tribute to the
hours spent with original video and audio a short essay. This
week he celebrates his favorite song of the summer, “PONPONPON.”
Last Thursday, Acéphale‘s Patrik North tweeted, “a problem w/
@thefader and @pitchfork and @stereogum and @dummymag is that
they don’t cover IMPORTANT MUSIC,” with a link to 18-year-old
model-blogger Kyary Pamyu Pamyu‘s “PONPONPON.”  I love stuff
like “PONPONPON”, and not just for the visual spectacle of
faceless, cross-dressing plus-size dancers or the floating toast
with 3-D eyeballs or when Kyary’s head turns to pink Picasso
slime. “PONPONPON” was written and composed by Yasutaka Nakata,
who is sort of like the The-Dream of J-Pop, an auteur whose work
guiding female vocalists like Perfume, Capsule and Meg always
follows an instantly-identifiable, common perfect thread. In
their world, Nakata and his artists make music sublime, a happy
marriage of early-2000