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Promise (Kohmi Hirose Song)
"Promise" (stylized as "promise") is a song recorded by Japanese singer-songwriter Kohmi Hirose, from her seventh studio album, ''Rhapsody''. It was released on November 27, 1997 by Victor Entertainment as the album's second single. It is Hirose's second best-single, behind "Romance no Kamisama", selling over 600,000 copies. ''Promise'' was featured in commercials for the Alpen company's 1998 winter campaign. Internet meme The song was popularized on the Internet through its use in the Internet meme, meme on Nico Nico Douga and then YouTube. The meme originated from glitchy gameplay footage from the Nintendo 64 game ''GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game), GoldenEye 007'' achieved via slowly pulling the cartridge loose, but not loose enough to fully disconnect it, resulting in character models moving their limbs and bodies rapidly in abnormal fashion. People imitated the glitch in real life through stop motion and then superimposed the chorus of "Promise" over the resulting video. Chart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kohmi Hirose
is a Japanese pop singer and songwriter. Since the release of her million-selling single "Romance no Kamisama" in 1993, Hirose has recorded music for winter-sporting goods company Alpen's advertising campaigns. This has prompted the Japanese public to bestow upon her the nickname of . Biography After returning from America, her first album "Bingo!" was released in July 1992, but the first big hit for her was her third single, released in December 1993, "Romance no Kamisama", which sold 1.75 million copies. Subsequent album and single releases around that time of year, as well as her sponsorship deal with the skiing goods company Alpen to write songs for their winter-time commercials, earned her the title of the "Winter Queen", and this was reinforced with the single "Gelaende ga Tokeru Hodo Koishitai" in December 1995. Her 1998 compilation of these singles, '' The Best "Love Winters"'', is certified multi-million, having sold 2.4 million copies. She hosts a weekly show on Ustr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |