{"id":26,"date":"2008-01-28T21:08:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T21:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/?p=26"},"modified":"2016-03-17T21:24:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T20:24:57","slug":"current-music-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Current music in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was toying with the video embedding earlier on and during the Japanese course I take suddenly the question arises what kind of music is popular in Japan. As I already had some names and links at the ready I decided to throw this mashup together.<\/p>\n<p>Note that my Japanese still pretty much blows (sumimase, watashi wa aho desu) so I tried to get the current chart hits (but if I couldn&#8217;t find them I&#8217;d find something from the artist.<\/p>\n<p> <!--more--> First up is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kawashima_Ai\" title=\"Wikipedia entry on Kawashima Ai\">Ai Kawashima<\/a> (<span style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u5ddd\u5cf6 \u611b) <\/span>with &#8216;Together&#8217;: {flv}demo\/Ai_Kawashima_-_Together{\/flv} She is currently holding 5 spots in the top 20 which made me conclude she had to be freaking good&#8230; And she kinda is; I like the song thats in the charts at number 3 atm better than the one above but I couldn&#8217;t find a video clip of it so heres the song, its called My Love: {mp3}demo\/Ai_Kawashima_-_My_Love{\/mp3}<\/p>\n<p>Next up is number 4 on the list, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ken_Yokoyama\">Ken Yokoyama<\/a> with Not Fooling Anyone: {flv}demo\/Ken_Yokoyama_-_Not_Fooling_Anyone{\/flv}<\/p>\n<p>Another popular team in the current charts is <span>the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crazy_Ken_Band\">Crazy Ken Band<\/a> with \u30bf\u30aa\u30eb (don&#8217;t ask, I have no clue): {youtube}f8mSfrjE_ZM{\/youtube}<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>Then, another swinging group called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sid_%28band%29\">SID<\/a> with <span>Mitsuyubi (\u871c\u6307). I have admit I actually like this style&#8230;: {youtube}I-KTpUzbQ6I{\/youtube}<\/span><br \/>SID appears another 3 times (!) in the current top 20 of Oricon. This is them performing the cool song called <span>Natsukoi: {youtube}YNDAGr-D-9I{\/youtube}<\/span><br \/>Last one I&#8217;ll post is bit lower paced than the others but its cool, <span>Namida no Ondo<\/span>: {youtube}R2IMYb4vWh8 {\/youtube}<\/p>\n<p>I just have to state that: yes, even though the music is ok, the singer looks like a dork from time to time but so did the bloke from Jamiroquai and they still became famous <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"plugins\/editors\/tinymce\/jscripts\/tiny_mce\/plugins\/emotions\/images\/smiley-tongue-out.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tongue out\" title=\"Tongue out\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage-->To point out the contrast, in the same chart the next song is found:{youtube}xnFC6HPD5yE{\/youtube} This is (if I&#8217;m not mistaken) Yanawaraba with Ichigoichie&#8230; I think I can say they must be nuts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Then my new found favorite once more, this is Anna Tsuchiya with Taste My Skin: {flv}demo\/Anna_Tsuchiya_-_Taste_My_Skin{\/flv}<\/p>\n<p>And Slap That Naughty Body (hubba hubba): {flv}demo\/Anna_Tsuchiya_-_Slap_That_Naughty_Body{\/flv}<\/p>\n<p>Well, that wraps it up for now. TTFN and till next time! <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was toying with the video embedding earlier on and during the Japanese course I take suddenly the question arises what kind of music is popular in Japan. As I already had some names and links at the ready I decided to throw this mashup together. 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