J-Pop?
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Anyone here know anything about J-Pop? (Bonus points for actually being Japanese and/or living in Japan)
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Is it virtual 16 years olds in short skirts singing at impossible pitch and speed?
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The last word in j pop
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The last word in j pop
You beat me by like seconds.
Oh, well, fuck it...
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I sometimes watch J-pop music videos.
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All of you are terrifying o_O
And, loopback ... there are no words ... are you channeling evil-@accalia ?
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And, loopback ... there are no words ... are you channeling evil-@accalia ?
oh please. if i weighed in on this one you wouldn't have any sanity left. :-P
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oh please. if i weighed in on this one you wouldn't have any sanity left.
:whimper: I just ... had questions ...
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@accalia said:
oh please. if i weighed in on this one you wouldn't have any sanity left.
:whimper: I just ... had questions ...
fear not. where we're going we don't need sanity.
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fear not. where we're going we don't need sanity.
:dips toe in hesitantly:
Who is this Yui person I am hearing about? Why are they such a big deal?
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Google says she sang this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujJN3lobdSs
I dunno if that helps.
Wiki says she just got married and gave birth to twins? So. There's that I guess?
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Google says she sang this:
I dunno if that helps.
Wiki says she just got married and gave birth to twins? So. There's that I guess?I know, I have looked her up. What I want to know is the cultural stuff that only native-speakers or people living in Japan would know. Is she like their Taylor Swift? Their Adele? Their ... Madonna?
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I'll just drop this here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y6H-YjsE9Q
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Why is there a dildo on some of those bottles?
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I think everyone here has seen this but in case:
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I was hoping you were reviewing those like you do with indie games, that shit was fun :-)
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There's like 150 of those on my channel and at least that many more on the Robots in the News channel.
EDIT: Here, don't say I never did nothing for ya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4T3tj4ixos&list=PL8SUvRfUJ8opF5eiJyDUByBOuLT4-m5Ev&index=2
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Is it Ghostbusters 2?
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Well, since you already found YUI, you've probably got one of the best you're likely to.
The whole music industry over there is crazy, though. It's all run by the yakuza, who run studios that push out a steady flow of new idols, who are popular for a year or two at best. So mostly, you don't find too many that stay famous long.
There are some fairly good bands, but my favorite, Stereopony, basically stopped existing soon after the lead singer had throat surgery, despite theoretically reforming under the leadership of Avril Lavigne's drummer (No, really!).
I think The Brilliant Green reformed a few years ago, and I rather like their stuff.
I rather like some of the weirder ones, like Yousei Teikoku (weird, gothic stuff), Nirgilis, etc, but you can't go wrong with The Pillows (rocking for decades at this point).
Most of the pop stuff is idol songs, and there are a lot of idolmaster and vocaloid songs going around as a result. I like a singer from nico nico douga, Lon, who mostly sings vocaloid stuff.
Anyway, it's all weird, so don't expect any respect if you listen to any of it. Except maybe The Pillows or The Blue Hearts.
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Japanese ads are the best. They're just utterly batshit and funny. I would watch ads again if they were like this.
@Vaire What anime is that from?
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Japanese ads are the best. They're just utterly batshit and funny. I would watch ads again if they were like this.
yes. that is the kind of ad we need!
that flavour of ad can save the ad industry!
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@Luhmann said:
Why is there a dildo on some of those bottles?
Because Japan.
Because Japan is very weird.
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:thatsTheJoke.apxc:
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Japan has given up this. This really is the best of all possible universes.
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Wait, since when is Sailor Moon asian?!?
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Wait, since when is Sailor Moon asian?!?
On a side note: India is part of the Asian continent. Why aren't Indians called Asian?
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They're Asian, they're just not Chinese.
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The pillows are good. I like the boredoms and ooioo.
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That's my favourite episode of Father Ted
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Wait, since when is Sailor Moon asian?!?
On a side note: India is part of the Asian continent. Why aren't Indians called Asian?
Y'all never heard of "South Asian"?
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Considering they're apparently related to some magical moon kingdom, I think you're thinking into it too much.
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It's always weird to me when the Japanese make a show like, say, Cowboy Bebop and almost every character in it is a caucasian American.
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It's good for the export.
Honestly I think that actually Japan is a nice calm conservative country and this whole crazy stuff is just a conspiracy to attract tourists and sell merchandise to the weeaboos. Kinda like the North Korean "guided trips".
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They do lots of settings. They have things that are medieval european, quite a few where everyone is german, but most frequently japanese. Kind of like how all our scifi and fantasy is brittish.
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They're Asian, they're just not Chinese.
I have never heard anyone refer to Indians as Asian. They're always called just Indian.
If you showed the average person a picture of a people from India, China and Japan and said "Pick out the Asians" I'll bet that 99.9% of the time people will not pick the Indian.
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Seeing race but not recognizing their individual privilege makes you a oppressive shitlord.
This reminds me of the time EastEnders(a british soap opera) introduced an Asian family. You had people phoning radio shows complaining that Indian family was introduced and it was insulting to the Asian community to introduce an Indian family when they said they were going to introduce an Asian family.
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Since I mentioned it in the Status thread but it makes more sense here: Bunny the Party, BERRY ROLL, and Cantoy are nice.
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Very nice. I will check them out.
My current obsession is LiSA. I love her
Especially her new album Launcher, and the songs Rising Hope and L.Miranic from it <3
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I also think I forgot to mention Akino from Bless4. Bless4 is a family quartet of Japanese Mormons raised in the USA for half their lives. Really weird thing to have exist, but everything Akino does is awesome. She did a bunch of the music for Aquarion, and Sousei no Aquarion is one of my favorite songs she's done.
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Checking it all out now :3
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Bless4
I was losing faith in you, HARD, Magus, until I got to Akino from Bless4. She was the only one of the four that redeemed you. The rest, WAY too "pop-y" for my tastes.
Akino from Bless4, though, she's good stuff. [heads off to amazon.co.jp for a shopping spree, nope she isn't available on amazon.com =_=]
I'll take a 25% success rate of finding great music any day, though.
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