So there's nothing concrete yet, but I received some exciting news from a very good friend of mine tonight. He is a dancer in the NY, LA, etc. circuit, and has done all sorts of performing and choreographing with hip-hop and tap companies all over the country, and even appeared on an MTV dance special a few spring breaks ago. We went to school together and have known each other for 10 years, so he knows a handful of the J-pop and K-pop artists I'm into. I even dragged him to the Rain concert at MSG a few years ago!

Anyway, I saw him tonight for the first time in a few months, and the subject of work and auditions came up, and he casually said: "Oh, I've been meaning to tell you. Two of my good friends just recently finished shooting a video for BoA's American debut."

Mind you, my friend doesn't listen to J/K-pop, and he barely knows who BoA is. He has probably only ever heard 1 song by her that I forced him to listen to four years ago in high school. There's basically no reason for him to even known that BoA is rumored to be working on a US debut. So it completely caught me off guard when he mentioned her.

I asked him to try to find out the song name and any other details he could, so hopefully we'll find something else out soon. But if this is true (and like I said, he's got nothing to gain from making up a story about an artist he couldn't care less about--shooting a music video is just another day's work for he and his dancer friends), it seems that BoA's American debut preparations are far enough along to have a completed music video. Official announcements can't be all too far off.