does anyone like jrock/jpop

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my favorite is lm.c most of my the anime themes cant thinks of the names at the moment

Well here are two clips I found, it helps in reactions

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjCmuxlxq10[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plAIBtQgW64[/youtube]

My J-rock/j-pop repertoire is kinda stuck on L'Arc~en~Ciel and a few others such as Gackt and The Pillows.

I like the genre, as I like all types of music, but it's one I should probably look into more.

Ever since early 2009, I've been kind of getting into the more poppy side of J-Pop... I mean, sure, I've also been listening to the Oricon Top 30 (I do so every week now, much to my enjoyment), and I also hear a lot of J-Rock and visual kei, but my preference is for urban music and pop. I count among my favourite Japanese artists and groups: Bennie K, m flo (both hip hop), Uemura AI, Bonnie Pink, and Hinouchi Emi.

I also find I'm quite hypnotised by videos of girl groups like Kara and Girls Generation (I know they're Korean, but they've been venturing into the Japanese market lately.)

Kyaa~♪ I love J-pop! I listen to most of the Vocaloids, Kanon Wakeshima (she is an amazing singer and cellist, but I would recommend listening to the songs on her first album), most anime openings (I actually like listening to the openings even more than the animes), and most of the J-pop songs on DDR that I never strayed from (I wouldn't let my sister get the newer ones because it isn't "authentic DDR" without J-pop).

I like quite a bit of Jpop/Jrock; mostly anime themes. I tend to like specific songs from a variety of artists rather than a lot of music by the same artist, but that's true of any genre of music I like.

I like it a lot. Unfortunately, since a long while back, I have been very much not up-to-date on new stuff, as with all other music. However, as for older, I really like Gackt. It's a bit funny how I got to know about his music; a girl I knew quite a few years back talked on her blog about how he had plagiarized another song when he made the song Another World. I listened to it, and the other song, and found they weren't similar enough, overall, for it to be seen that way, and Gackt's song was far better, anyway. Some days later, she talked about how she's annoyed with his music. I had been listening to his music the past few days, so I then responded to that that I like his music. A few days later, she was really into his music, all of a sudden. :P Still manages to make me snicker a bit, at times, when I think about it. :)

Anyway, useless info. :P I also like some songs in the old band Malice Mizer, a lot, and some from X-Japan. Music in some bishôjo games really is nice, too. ^^ I liked Dir en Grey, too, until I learned that one song was about the ugliness of abortion. Just stopped listening to their music, after that... :B

Can I ask you guys who are j-pop aficionados: how is your Japanese? Do you understand or speak it? Or just a little? As for me, I can distinguish a couple of words that keep returning in the lyrics, usually because I looked them up in a dictionary, but I don't have a real comprehension of the language to speak of. I do love how every single syllable tends to be pronounced in Japanese songs. It's very rhythmic.

I agree... Japanese is indeed exceptionally good for singing.

I don't understand Japanese. :( I was going to learn it, but then I sank into a really long, severe depression that I still haven't entirely gotten out of. Sucks I don't understand it, with all the great games, especially, that never are released outside of Japan - instead we just get tonnes of war games crap and other action games. I do know some words, as well, though, and I recognize words that reappear. I used to love the ending song, 'Itooshi Hito no Tameni', in the anime version of Fushigi Yûgi, when I used to watch that... I could sing a big part of that song, for a while, without any lyrics to help me. Although the whole of it can't even be sung unless you are two who do it... but a big part of it, otherwise...

lol kool i got all the anime fans and jpop/ jrock
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hey guys names jess hehe
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I like a little bit of Japanese music, but not much, and I really have to be in the right mood even for those I "like." My preferences are for '90s and early-2000s music: Aiko, Judy and Mary, Do As Infinity, Arai Akino, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Aikawa Nanase, Utada Hikaru. And among these singers, I mostly only like a few of their songs and don't care for the rest. Most music from Japan is awfully youthful and genki for my tastes.

My Japanese is okay. I find song lyrics are more difficult to understand than conversation is. I agree, though, about the Japanese language being beautiful for singing. So many vowels.

Kudos... I always need to print out the lyrics before I can attempt to sing along (badly) to anything. Translating the words does help me to remember the song better, naturally. And thank goodness for all the online translations that are available on the web, and the subtitled music videos on Youtube.

Sorry to read about that depression, Beauty_pact. I know a little something of what it's like going through a dark valley messing up what I had planned for myself.
I quite like Utada Hikaru's songs off her 'Heart Station' album (2008), especially the title song and 'Beautiful World'. Both have a fairly mature feel, I think. There's something melancholic about her love songs, both in the melody and in the lyrics.

Well, it's a bit late, but welcome Jess. Don't be afraid if some of your threads don't get a lot of replies, it happens to all of us sometimes.

How do you like "toge" by Sadie, from this week's Oricon chart?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e0zuh7AzJI

I like Shiina Ringo and Hitomi Yaida. I have their albums.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KghkO5nYG0[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu4zu0S6ZDw[/youtube]

I like Dir en Grey does that count?

I love J-music! My current favorite bands are Qypthone, Berry Roll, Midori, Dizzy Joghurt, Kokusyoku Sumire, and Kiiiiiii.

they keep making cds so i would think so.