Tag: j-pop
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Music Rotation #1
When I was a young(er) person on the internet learning more about j-pop, my lifelines were the various mp3 rotations scattered around self-hosted domains on the web. Eventually those died out (who even has a personal website anymore? haha… 😬) and transitioned to places like LJ. Of course, they were legally dubious, but fans had…
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Best of 2017: Japan 🎶
This isn’t a sponsored post y’all, I’m just a Spotify stan. I listen to it at work, in my car, at home… (kind of, my iTunes library is deeper lol). Last year I set out to listen to more Japanese music outside of my favorites, and I’m pretty happy about that choice! With some effort,…
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Flashback Friday #2
See also: “history tag” from last year! And since Namie Amuro is retiring, I figure it’s as good a time as any to do this… 1. What was your first song? Technically the first Japanese song I was ever exposed to was the .midi version of the Sailor Star Song on some Geocities (!) page.…
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Best of 2016: Japan
WHO KNEW that a song commissioned by Yamato Transport would be the song of the year? Amazing. I’m kidding (sort of), but NEKO FUNJATTA is genius and visually stunning in every way. Meow! I listened to a lot less Japanese music than I should have and the only real release I looked forward to this…
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overdose, overreaction; call it what you may
For some reason I felt like blogging about the top 10 most listened to songs on my iPod/iTunes.