Japanese celebrity redesigns signature song as hand washing melody | Malay Mail

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TOKYO, April 6 — Japanese social media celebrity Pikotaro returned as a leading twitter trend in Japan with a coronavirus hand washing song that repurposes his signature Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen (PPAP) to Pray-for-People-and-Peace. The video was among the top five in a Twitter trend ranking in...

Japanese comedian Pikotaro performs in Pavilion shopping centre at the first ever Japan Expo Malaysia 2017 performing in Kuala Lumpur, July 29, 2017. — Picture by Choo Choy May

TOKYO, April 6 — Japanese social media celebrity Pikotaro returned as a leading twitter trend in Japan with a coronavirus hand washing song that repurposes his signatureThe video was among the top five in a Twitter trend ranking in Japan on Monday. Pikotaro, whose real name is Kazuhito Kosaka, wore the same gold animal print outfit he wore in PPAP video that went viral in 2016.

His hand washing video, shorter than the 2016 two-minute hit that the Guinness World Record listed as the shortest song to make it into the Billboard Hot 100 chart, had also been viewed a quarter of a million times on YouTube since it was uploaded on Saturday.— Reuters

 

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