Edward Furlong - "I'll Be Waiting" Music Video | The Terminator 2 Star's Japanese Pop Single

In 1991, Edward Furlong was a 13-year-old kid from Pasadena with no acting experience when James Cameron cast him as John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day - one of the highest-grossing films of all time. A year later, he was a pop star in Japan. That sentence is real. None of it is a joke. "Hold On Tight" was an eight-track album released exclusively in Japan in October 1992 on Pony Canyon, designed to capitalize on the absolute mania surrounding Furlong in the Japanese market following T2. He didn't tour Europe. He didn't release it in the U.S. He flew to Japan, sang into a microphone, and the country lost its mind. A music video was shot for "I'll Be Waiting" and the single was later reissued as the "Cupid Mix" on a 3-inch promotional CD packaged with a heart-shaped Valentine card from Eddie himself. A few facts worth knowing: -The album's title track, "Hold On Tight," reportedly outsold Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" on the Japanese Oricon chart at the time of its release. -The full tracklist includes a cover of The Doors' "People Are Strange" - yes, John Connor covered Jim Morrison -Furlong has said almost nothing about this era publicly in the decades since -The album has never been officially released outside Japan and remains out of print -Released the same year Pet Sematary Two hit theaters. Two years before American Heart. Three years before Brainscape. Edward Furlong was 14 years old. 🎵 For more stories about music made by people famous for anything but music, check out Celebrity Playlist - the audio series - wherever you listen to podcasts. 📱 Instagram: @celebplaylist 🧵 Threads: @celebplaylist