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Sometimes I wonder what I have missed... having been away from jpop for so long

I've found amny of my loves have either toned odwn or retired because they lost popularity or like in hayami's case, retired. It does quite sadden me but also in a weird way brightened me that I haven't missed as much.

There is one singer that this is not the case however. Tonight I was listening to more Aya Matsuura on youtube. Aya has always been a strange love to me because at the time I listened to her a lot and she was super popular on audioscrobbler, I had all her music but I couldnt quite connect with her on the same level others had on how awesome she was. I could tell she had a voice above the hello morning usual but her songs were still very boppy and kiddish... not to be insulting but I always felt that to be truly amazing and to be able to smash the jpop scene she would have to go above and beyond that. so I listened to her, I had my favourites, but there weren't many songs that I would reach for the back button to replay over again and again. The standouts were not many. Even now on ayas last.fm page her overall top 4 songs are not my favourites. Mine start with 100回のKISS and Watarashe Bashi.

Well that quickly changed when in January this year I went looking her up on youtube and I found hits after hit. It was like a mine and I had struck oil! Some were songs I knew well and loved from ages ago, some were the meh boppy ones but the ones that stood out to me where the ones that I immediately took a strong liking to but I didnt recall hearing before.

I also found they all came from the same one album:

Omoi Afurete - 2009-01-21


The title song - Omoi Afurete and Falling are up there with 100回のKISS and Watarashe Bashi. and many of the others are just great. Overall it makes an album that I really enjoy listening to from start to end and there aren't too many albums I find I can do that with.

^_^

16 days ago I found a new found love - Bright. 16 days later I've been playing non stop their clips on youtube and I've even aquired most of their music. Now they've hit my music player and subsequently last.fm so watch out for their awesomeness! Bright is a jpop band formed back in 2008 under an indie avex brand. They started off busking in the streets and they can really sing and dance. They are the real deal and I am proud to be a fan of their songs. Hopefully this will lead to a new golden age in jpop listening for me because the jpop love has been gone for far too long and I really do still love my old jpop songs.

4 years ago... It sounds so long ago now, I was very into my jmusic. Getting mew music all the time and making the time to listen to it, hear what other last.fm fans, forumers thought and really getting into the community. Then it died. I died a little death and never came back. I don't know why or how it started but my love seemed to dry off and I didn't really go anywhere. Not to Wpop or Cpop or any other music. It just died off. I stopped listening to new stuff and even what I had, I listened to them less and less.

Fast forward to the beginning of the year and I was after a new phone. It was all that I wanted but it was pricey. to justify this I said to myself it could double as my music player among many other things... So I got and packed it with song as soon as i got a memory card.. mostly mixes but not myfavourite stuf because I am like that. And each time a melody or a memory would come to me and I would go add new songs on. Mostly it was wpop like Bon Jovi, Celine and some anime like Do you remeber love (oh I'm so in love with this song I could play it endlessly over and over and over again.). Another fun avenue which I am/was really into is youtube. It is awesome for inding old and new songs alike and I have my playlists which I continually build upon.. I refound Do You Remember Love like that and tonight I am listening to someones premade playlist of Aya Matsuura songs. I remeber having a disc with just her songs and playing her songs A LOT and grabbing her albums as soon as they came out. Of the jpop artists she was one of my favourites. Funny thing is I never really felt she had any stand out songs. Maybe one or two that I would intentionally put on or would play in in my head when I wasn't listening to her but most of her songs was stuff that I would put on and I could listen to without hitting the skip button.

Tonight I am listening to this premade playlist and yea, some songs bring back memories but my strongest feelings are.. her voice is so good and these songs.. are so good too.

Maybe my tastes have changed a little.

Megumi Nakajima

Sorry if I took a long time to add you. I only noticed there was a request and when I found where it was I found more. :0

Hear this song on the radio a few times but I never knew what it was called. The radio is so hopeless in getting people in touch with music. So I did some hunting around on the webbydanet and I found out what it is called. darn, this song is so awesome. I fell in love with it the first time I heard it. I reembered I was doing something important when it came on (like changing. lol) and I stopped in my tracks, mesmerized at how awesome the voice was and how sweet/memory forming the music was. Then I started dancing...

Leona Lewis, I must hear more of your music!

where o whre can I find people with the same tastes as me?

aww, I really miss Hayami. I really wish she will come out with something soon. Theres so many songs of hers that I love, many so dearly. I have her complete playlist on my portable and listening to her wonderfully sweet voice made me wonder where shes been. It's been too long since she's last come out with an album. She needs to bring out something soon. I need it! Hayami!


favouretos:

venus 18 !!!!!!!!!!
telepathy
air mail
dessert days
mienai story
feint
memories
kaze ni Mukai Aruku Youni
say good bye gloomy days
Aisuru Kimi ga Soba ni Ireba
yume real
Kon'ya wa Kaeranai
peach lime shake
jumping lets go
go! my heaven
soda pop
see you darling
sweet ride
Onaji Sekai de
domino
so many nights


I think I better stop now, I'm naming every song...




Hayami Kishimoto