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| oroboras |
 Posted: Sep 23, 2008 7:48 pm |
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桃ノ花ビラ
Joined: 23 Sep 2008
Posts: 2
Location: Cheshire, England
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Ok, I came into J-pop through a very odd route.
My first real taste of Japanese music was the Mad Capsule Markets song, Pulse. This - along with their next track released in the UK (called Tribe), got me to seek out more of their stuff.
After a while, I went on to other things, then met a friend who introduced me to Malice Mizer, Dir en Grey, and one song by Ayumi Hamasaki (Evolution)
For a while, I listened to the Visual Kei stuff, but it was the Ayu track, that began to get played more and more on my MP3 player.
Then I decided to find a bit more, to see if I liked it, so I downloaded (illegally, I will admit) a handful of her tracks off the P2P programme WinMX, and slowly became hooked.
Over a period of about 6 months, I then bought all her albums - and DVD`s where possible, and became a huge fan (o.k. Obsessive...)
Now, after about a year of playing virtualy nothing but Ayumi (honestly, I listen to music at work - I drive a bus, and the passengers get to listen to Ayumi from 8pm to midnight, whether they like it or not and several have gone on to become fans too!!) - so thats about 35 hours of her stuff every week, then theres the time I spend at home on the PC with her videos running on the second screen, I`ve decided to branch out a bit, and try listening to more J-pop artists, and after installing the on-line game Osu! on my PC, and playing a few J-pop beatmaps, the Ai Otsuka songs grew on me very quickly, so now, I`m becoming an Ai fan too!
The main thing you should know about me is that I`m a long haired, tattoo`d & pierced Rocker in his 30`s, so becoming a fan of J-pop has got me more than a few odd looks from people, which in my opinion makes it even more fun!!! |
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| Koda |
| Posted: Oct 29, 2008 2:23 pm |
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上塩タン焼680円
Joined: 27 Oct 2008
Posts: 358
Location: Somewhere everywhere
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My first J-pop (actually Japanese music in general) was when my cousin sent me a shortened ver. of 'Planetarium' (that's right it was Ai herself who did this to me  ). But at first I didn't like it. I told him Ai's voice was pretty but the song was kinda boring.
And then I got curious. What other songs did she make? I looked her up on Wikipedia (haha yay!!) and then it eventually took me to an article on Kingyo Hanabi, which was a ballad. I downloaded it and so I got intensely hooked and starting getting her stuff like crazy! My favorite album back then and it still is, is LOVE PUNCH. It was so hard to dislike her.
After that I started listening more to TVXQ, Kuu, Ayu and Hikki and all them, and then.. well, you get it. My favorite albums right now are Kingdom by Kuu and GUILTY by Ayu. LOVE LETTER is definitely going to take that third, or it'll surpass Ayu even (in my books at least  )
I swear, I don't know what I'd do if I didn't download Kingyo Hanabi. I'd probably still be stuck to all this Hot 89.9 crap. And I can admit that I haven't listened to any English songs in well over two months!  |
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| china_xyz |
| Posted: Dec 29, 2008 3:32 pm |
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桃ノ花ビラ
Joined: 29 Dec 2008
Posts: 2
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I start listening J-music by playing the videogame "taiko" for DS
in that game i played "sakuranbo" after that i stawrt looking for more ai otsuka's songs
and then i looked for mor J-music
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| yuuko22 |
| Posted: Jan 05, 2009 7:08 am |
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桃ノ花ビラ
Joined: 04 Jan 2009
Posts: 11
Location: phillipines
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i started to be obsessed with JPOP when i was still 14 years...
that time i was only into anime ... my fave that time was GUNDAM SEED ... i really like the opening/ending songs..
heheheehhh
so addicted i started searching in the internet and found out that the singer was
TAMAKI NAMI... and she became my first JPOP Fave artist.... and always were!!!
i got addicted to Ai-chan because of HANA YORI DANGO ... i really like planetarium...the melody so enticing.. so soothing!!!
then there comes HANA KIMI JAPAN with PEACH as the soundtrack... i really like it because ai-chan's so cute!!
but this not the end of my jpop addiction.. because actually i have many jpop idols....
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