Been having a donut craving lately.... Since last week... Cannot stop wanting to eat donuts... The thing is that, i've never fancied donuts but, last saturday, at 11pm I even drove to a Dunkin Donuts' Drive Thru to get donuts... Then yesterday, I had to go buy donuts also to get for tea, then now, at 11:30pm, I'm eating donuts... I don't know why.
Anyway.. was spending the whole night trying to make two mixtapes of Japanese songs i've been listening to for Luis and Robbie, my two music gurus. Actually, I've been wanting to make one since March, but I still haven't got it done yet.
(yeah okay. mixtapes don't exist anymore. it's a mixCD, actually)
For Luis, I was trying to get more of those dancable tunes and indie rock tunes... ala Hey Mercedes, and Bright Eyes... Which are what I feel Luis was into back then.
For Robbie, I was trying to get some indie rock tunes and some more rock and guitar based tunes, which are what I feel Robbie's music of preference...
While I was selecting songs for the mixtapes, I was chatting with Jingle... I was just thinking earlier today, that in 4 years, I'm gonna start an indie record label with Jingle... I was thinking about it today... Every industry had their pioneering indie record label. Back then before the whole emo/indie-rock scene, there was Drive Thru Records and Triple Crown Records, which probably signed 70% of the bands in the whole scene.
Then, in Japan, I discovered today, that the Drive Thru records of their indie rock scene was, of course, High Line Records (which closed in July this year, by the way)... I think MOST of the J-indie rock bands would have had something to do with this record label/CD store in some way during the course of their career.
SO ANYWAY, I thought, well, we need one too for South East Asia... And it's gonna be based in Singapore, and I'm gonna start it..... And the only person I could think of doing this with was Jingle.
So anyway, while i was chatting with her and selecting my songs for Luis and Robbie, I told her about the J-Rock/J-Indie scene.. and she told me to send the best song.
WELL... OF course ONE BEST song representative of the WHOLE ENTIRE genre is simply IMPOSSIBLE.
Because for J-Rock/J-Indie, albeit it's becoming saturated, it is unlike the music scenes in America or Britian or whatever, in the sense that, there is no one common tune or generically duplicated sound to all these bands in the scene. They all, really, do, have very different composition.
Let's hold on that thought, because there IS a clause to that statement.
J-indie/J-rock though, it is important to note that it borrows it's sounds from Brit-pop, grunge, American alternative rock, folk, emo, and punk rock. But perhaps like all things else that the Japanese adopts from another culture, they make those foreign adoption entirely very Japanese. And that's what you get with this scene too.
So, in that saying, although, unlike the music scenes in America whereby every emo band sounds like every other emo band, or when indie rock is popular, every indie band sounds like every other indie band, or when punk rock is popular every punk rock band sounds like very other punk rock band (i'm sure u get the idea).
Unlike that, the Japanese scene is different because their bands don't quite sound like every other band... HOWEVER, because they DO draw from the same pool of influences (Brit-pop, grunge, punk rock, emo, alternative rock and the likes), these are where the common thread of sounds starts appearing, and perhaps after awhile, the sounds all start getting saturated and the same... (well this is if you are, like me, checking out entire discographies of 20 bands a week).
But anyway, I was telling Jingle, that, well, I've not bought a single English CD for the past 3 years (and if I have, they were the Japan version of those albums lol)... It's quite sad, actually... And some might say it's stupid because 90% of the music I'm listening to are Japanese and I don't understand 90% of what is being sung...
But that said, it's just that, I find that the one place that ROCK MUSIC is still alive (well, the good ol' rock days anyway) is in Japanese Rock/Indie.
After Brit Pop has died (and shot twice in the grave), after American Alternative Rock was hung and beheaded (by folk hahaha), after grunge has become passé, yeah, the music and tunes and beats that I love so much that I can't find anywhere else, not in the Travis-Jonas Brothers-Wilco world, rises and falls between the chords and the riffs of Japanese rock bands. Yeah, THAT is why I am listening to so much Japanese music-- because here, I can still find a tune that I'd love, a tune that, well, suits my taste, whether I understand the words that comes along with it or not.
Anyway, PLEASE WATCH, this PV of Base Ball Bear's 愛してる/Aishiteru (I Love You)... There are lyrics like within the PV
Aishiteru
by Base Ball Bear
The first time I said "I love you"
Your eyes were kind of sad
I thought you'd be happy
It felt as if a cool draft passed by
Like a present i thought it'd be
Though a naive boy's idea
I love you
I can't be wrong about you, probably.
I want to walk with you, probably.
I love you, probably.
The third time I said "I love you"
You told me you don't like me anymore
"Really...what?" I kept repeating
Something seemed different, I felt it.
I drank with friends, talked love theories
No future, no answer
I love you
I can't be wrong about you, probably.
Yes, I want to walk with you, probably.
I love you, probably.
(Girl sings this part)
Every time you say those words
I feel love runs away
Love has no form
javascript:void(0)
Publish Post
(Guy sings again)
I would give you something close
Yes, I would give my heart
I love you...
I love you
I can't be wrong about you, probably
I want to walk with you, probably
I love you, probably
Most probably.
-Translations by pankochan@LJ-
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