Kahimi Karie -- Tiny King Kong

Always the mysterious beauty, Kahimi Karie（カヒミ・カリィ）. Plus her eyes can slice through rock with more force than any Type X phaser.

I've mentioned in past articles about how I used to watch this midnight program on MuchMusic (Canada's equivalent of MTV) called "City Limits" which presented the more avant-garde or just plain weird music videos out there.

I think the video for Karie's 5th single "Tiny King Kong" might fit the requisite conditions to get onto "City Limits". Released on Valentine's Day 1997, the video has Karie all glossed up and dressed up in a skintight leather bodysuit while slinking around on an austere set which includes a microscope. Apparently, the song written by Momus has the singer purring about turning the tables on the famous King Kong by just turning the microscope and making him look like an ant that she can control while she scales the Empire State Building.

Japanese accordionist Coba composed the melody that slinks just as much as Karie does in the video. I've put the "Shibuya-kei" tag onto "Little King Kong" but there's more of a technopop quality to the proceedings. I'd say that she was perhaps even filtering a bit of Bjork.

"Tiny King Kong" was also placed on Karie's first full studio album "Larme de Crocodile" from March 1997. I didn't get the album but I did purchase the single, and to be honest, the reason I did so was that the flyer advertising the single had the full body shot of heavily made-up Karie in her Louise Brooks hairdo looking over her shoulder...and it was just her in her birthday suit. Well, that's not exactly true. She did have a string of pearls around her neck.