Tag: j-pop

  • Music Rotation #1

    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…

  • Best of 2017: Japan 🎶

    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,…

  • Flashback Friday #2

    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.…

  • Best of 2016: Japan

    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…

  • overdose, overreaction; call it what you may

    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.