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Yoshiki On Why He Formed Girl Group Bi-ray: “Their Talent Is Too Strong Not To Be Involved.”
The multi-hyphenate musician, songwriter, director has added the formation of a talented J-Pop group to his arsenal of talents.
Now, a chance encounter on the small screen has led to him creating J-pop girl group Bi-ray, and they’re taking on Hollywood with “Butterfly,” the theme song for Rebel Wilson’s action comedy Bride Hard. The resulting “Butterfly” is ambitious and atypical for a debut pop single, or for a mainstream comedy flick, beginning as a sentimental Y2K-style ballad à la Vitamin C’s “Graduation” before lurching into a futuristic dubstep/popera breakdown. Yoshiki knows it’s challenging for Japanese artists to break America – he recalls X Japan’s infamous first early-’90s U.S. press conference, when they were “bombarded” by aggressively doubting journalists – but thankfully, the industry has undergone a “paradigm shift.
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