[Album] J-Pop: An Introduction (and discussion)

I love J-pop. Some of my favorite artists are:

ORANGE RANGE: sort of like a mix between rock and rap. Rapping in Japanese just sounds awesome.

MIZ: actually the first j-pop cd I heard. Sort of poppy but she sings half in Japanese and half in English.

BoA: she is actually from South Korea, but really awesome.

MIKA NAKASHIMA: she is a real genuis. She can sing anything from classical to hard core punk. She even sings "Amazing Grace"

I've been to Japan. My wife is Japanese, so we flew there to get married and so that I can meet her family. Japan is awesome. I told my wife if shecan teach me to speak Japanese, we are moving!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Orange Range are the best. I can listed to their CD "MusiQ" over and over again. I, also, love their ending theme for the Naruto anime.

I picked up a CD by Exile titled "Entertainment". Awesome stuff.

Any suggestions on more artists like that? I love J-hip-hop?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

MusiQ is the only Orange Range CD that I have. The other songs I have heard, I have found on youtube.com. I have heard of SOUL'd OUT, I will have to keep an eye out for that. I have heard that Gacht (did I spell that right?) is good, too. I am interested in picking that up.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Any suggestion as to which SOUL'd OUT CD would be the best to start with? What is their newest CD?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

My wife picked me up the new Mika Nakashima CD "The End" for Valentine's Day.

Score!

She, also, told me that only otaku like Morning Masume. I watched a video of their's on youtube and it looked like something that should be shown on a children's TV show.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I watched the Chu! Natsu Party....um... it does look like it belongs on a dirty children's show...maybe a Spanish children's show. OMG, I used to watch a show called Xuxa or something with my son. I swear the host of this children's show would come out in bikinis. This video would fit in very well there.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I watched the Yui CHE.R.RY video on youtube. It was pretty good. Anyone have any other suggestions on j-pop videos to check out.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Jpnezeshorty

Also, note for all y'all who think J-POP is all about yappy, happy go lucky chick tunes (as in Morning Musume)

I listen to all J-pop EXCEPT yappy, happy go lucky chick tunes. I would feel more comfortable being caught by my wife watching porno than a Momusu video.

My favorite is Mika Nakashima. She CAN sing! And I love Orange Range.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?