Japanese Music

Started by Goten Shy June 1st, 2004 3:34 PM
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Cherrim

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I'm racist, in a way. o_o Most of the music I listen to in Japanese would probably sound terrible to me if it were in English.

But.. yeah. I love it, normally. @@; I mostly only listen to anime songs, though. I keep meaning to break into J-Pop/J-Rock, but I don't know where to start. XD;

edit: Oh, and my parents have given up all hope of my ever giving up on Japanese music - it's all I normally listen to at home now, so they just try their best to ignore it. =P


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Kairi

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I do, it sounds so much better than English translations of it. An example I can think of would be a song they sing in Puyo Puyo Digi Charat, where the Japanese lyrics fit perfectly to the music, but the English VAs have a much slower song to the same beat. Its awful. x.x;

But yeah, I do like Japanese music, usually if Ive heard it in anim or a video game though. o.o;
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Yes I listen to J-Pop.

Chinese trans > English trans
Chinese "dub" > English "dub"

Oh btw, I actually follow bands rather than anime music. I listen mostly to Koda Kumi (most known for FFX-2, Real Emotion and 1000 Words), Do As infinity ("Deep Forest" from Inuyasha done by them), Hitomi Yaida ("I Am" is done by her), Dream (known for "Night of Fire" from Initial D and "My Will" from Inuyasha), and rarely Ayumi Hamasaki ("Dearest")...okay sometimes BoA (but I can never figure out when she's doing Korean or Japanese lol).

And I'd like to express my opinion on V6 ("change the World" singers): They suck...worst than N'Sync *GASP!*
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Yea i like Koda Kumi aswel. 1000 words is my most fav song ever! Although i like the enlish version a little better the the japanese. That is sung be Jade from Sweetbox, my favortie all time singer. She is so hot! I think i shall try looking for some of those artists 'Do As infinity' sounds interesting =P
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Ohh, I love Japanese music! It just sounds so neat; I prefer it over most English songs. I just wish that I could understand most of the words.

And my mom gets bugged just a little by how much I like it, but she knows that she can't say anything because she listens to Hawaiian music ALL of the time, lol. =P I mean, she has about 5 CDs with different songs on them, and a tape for the car. She just loves it!

Oh, and Lightning, I think that a good artist to try listening to is Utada Hikaru. She was my first favorite Japanese singer! ^_^; I just heard her song, Simple and Clean, on Kingdom Hearts. She has a lot of nice songs, in both English and Japanese. But, that's my opinion.

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Does video game music count as Japanese? Hey, it's composed by Japanese people! (Koji Kondo) I have some video game songs that have Japanese lyrics, Go, Go Mario! and Lon Lon Ranch. But my favourite song is a Japanese song,Hatsukoi by Mayumi Kojima is the most addicting thing ever. And the funny thing is I don't have the slighest clue what she's saying, but I still love it. I like Japanese, video game, and soundtrack music. My musical tastes are kinda strange.

Cherrim

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I do, it sounds so much better than English translations of it. An example I can think of would be a song they sing in Puyo Puyo Digi Charat, where the Japanese lyrics fit perfectly to the music, but the English VAs have a much slower song to the same beat. Its awful. x.x;
Omg! I know! The same with Simple and Clean/Hikari (Kingdom Hearts). They both have the same background music, but Simple and Clean is much slower than Hikari, and as a result, it sounds worse. o_O; Well, I think so anyway. XD I've just been listening to the Japanese version a LOT lately.

*dances* I'm getting the Final Fantasy X soundtrack this weekend~!! XD; And yeah, T89, video game music counts, I guess. ;p


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Cherrim

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TRIFORCE89 - The OST. It's $60. o_o I'm hoping my little certificate thing will deduct a bit from the cost (if you get 4 of the little cards, you get a free CD), but if not, that's fine too. After buying the KH artbook at an obscene price, I feel like I can buy anything. o_O;

Kairi - If I ever figure out how, I could rip the tracks from the CD for you. :X (Erm... I think that's the right term. XD)


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Kairi

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Thatd be likequite a few megs, I downloaded the X-2 OST so I could see how big that was, but Id hate to kill your host or anything. o.o; The ripping is the easy part, getting it to me is hard. Burn me CDs and I'll come pick them up. >=p

Its ten gigabytes, though now iPods dont come smaller than fifteen.

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I love Japanese music because I can't understand it. xD; Well, in a way. =P They just have these really catchy melody. n_n; My favorites are, Ayumi Hamasaki, Aya Matsura, Do As Infinity, and sometimes Morning Musume and Utada Hikaru. n_n


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[QUOTE=Kairi]I do, it sounds so much better than English translations of it. An example I can think of would be a song they sing in Puyo Puyo Digi Charat, where the Japanese lyrics fit perfectly to the music, but the English VAs have a much slower song to the same beat. Its awful. x.x;
Do you mean Listen to Your Heartbeat? The English ver. sucked....I loooove Japanese music! It's better than some junk Rap or crud like that.
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I love Japanese music because I can't understand it. xD; Well, in a way. =P They just have these really catchy melody. n_n; My favorites are, Ayumi Hamasaki, Aya Matsura, Do As Infinity, and sometimes Morning Musume and Utada Hikaru. n_n
Same with me, lol. ^_^; I adore Japanese music...no matter what the lyrics (even though I can't really understand it!) there's always a nice beat or melody. You know, you really don't need to understand languages in order to like or listen to its songs. If there's a slow tempo or if it sounds melancholy...then it can have a sad tone; but it'll be beautiful and enough to gather that it's a sad song. That's how I look at it, at least! All the groups/singers you listed I like as well, Miyu! I'd definitely turn to Japanese music all the way if American pop music keeps going the way it is...O_o;


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Excatly! xD I love the melody of Japanese music. xD Asian Pop in general is better than American pop. Like K-pop or Chinese-pop. >.>;


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Yesss, I love Japanese Music, mostly I listen to music from animes although I have downloaded a few tracks from Japanese groups I keep hearing about like Gackt for one.

My dad can't stand it personally, he can't see how I can listen to music I don't understand the words too XD And he won't let me play the songs in the car so to get around that I just put Background Music I like from animes onto CD and play them, he doesn't mind as long as there's no singing...
....he quite liked some of the tracks from the Naruto OSTs XD

Cherrim

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Kairi - <_< I could burn it and send it to me, but I'd probably end up sending you stupid letters or something everyday if I had your address. XD;;

Evil Togepi - My parents always say, "I really like this" when I'm listening to my soundtracks... and then they go all wide-eyed when I say it's from one of my favourite animes/games. @@; They made me put the Kingdom Hearts soundtrack on during dinner several nights in a row since they liked it so much, lol. (Not that I'm complaining. ;p)


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