"LOL!" is a song by Japanese fashion model, actress and musician

Meisa Kuroki Satsuki Shimabukuro (Japanese: 島袋さつき, ''Shimabukuro Satsuki'', Born on 28 May 1988 in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan), better known by her stage name Meisa Kuroki (Japanese: 黒木メイサ, ''Kuroki Meisa''), is a Japanese actress, mod ...

, released as her third physical single in early October, 2010. The song, as of 2010, is her most popular single, outselling her other singles in terms of physical copies, and also being her only single to receive a digital download certification from

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Promotion

The song was used in commercials for

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s in Japan, in 2010. Kuroki set up an official

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account
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on September 7 in promotion for the single. Originally, Kuroki intended to only use the Twitter account for a month, until October 7, however is currently still using the service. She promoted the single with two handshake events on October 9 held on the same day, one in

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and one in

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. Kuroki appeared on TV shows ''Music Lovers'', ''Music Japan'' and ''Sakigake! Ongaku Banzuke Eight'' in promotion of the event. She also appeared on radio shows on

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, most notably ''Love Connection'' four times throughout October. Kuroki was featured in many magazines to promote the single, such as ''25ans'', ''Floor'', ''Nikkei Magazine'', ''Gyao Magazine'', '' Ori Star'', ''Sweet'' and '' WWD Japan''.

Music video

The music video was directed by Shigeaki Kubo. It was initially aired on the internet on September 11, for a limited period of 24 hours. The video features Kuroki in a summery room, reclined on the floor reading a magazine, along with several other girls. Interspersed with these scenes are Kuroki and two back-up dancers in a monochrome room, as well as scenes inside a red cluttered room, in which Kuroki stands in a bath-tub. Occasional 3D speech bubbles appear with the lyrics of the song around Kuroki, as well as other computer graphics.

Track listing

Chart rankings

Sales and certifications

Personnel

*D.O.I. (Daimonion Recordings) - Mixing *June (Wazz Up) - all instruments, music, production, programming, vocal production *Kaoru Kami - lyrics *Neeraj Khajanchi (Nippon no Kokoro Sound) - Recording, at Studio Empoint *Meisa Kuroki - vocals

Release history

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lol! (Meisa Kuroki Song) 2010 singles Songs in Japanese Meisa Kuroki songs 2010 songs