Pretty Cure celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and this song featured prominently in the anniversary PV. It was also the theme of "Precure All Stars Movie F" and "Kibou no Chikara: Otona Precure", which both aired Fall 2023. The song itself is bright, uplifting, and an anthem of self-love and optimism.
Ironically there's a song I like so much and it contains a Rap part. That's Memory 青春の光 from モーニング娘。released in 1999. I got easily attracted at the very first time when heard it. Their produced is the same who created Airi Suzuki decades ago...
But that's so different anyway.
I found myself getting really mad yesterday over the comments on a post over at Japan Today about the differences between #Jpop and #Kpop. So much misogyny in those comments. Cluebat: the Japanese popular #music industry is much more than just idol singers, and there's a lot of #idoru who are really damned good performers, too. Not to mention the songwriters, choreographers, costumers, lighting and sound professionals, and the musicians, too.
I suppose it's true that to some extent, K-pop idols tend to favor more sexualized (note that I did not say "mature") presentations, whereas the J-pop idols tend to favor more chaste presentations.
But, I was writing a thing yesterday that got spaced out the code airlock about how Japanese idols virtually always sing in unison, and how they are frequently criticised for doing so, as if singing in unison is somehow inherently inferior to singing in harmony.
The preference for singing in unison in Japan reflects the Japanese cultural emphasis on social cohesion and produces a sound that is fundamentally different to singing in harmony. It is not necessarily less difficult or less skillful to sing in precise unison than it is to sing in harmony.
Was in 1985...
Because of that album I became the guy I am today: super addicted to Japanese Music.
Discovered a different world to enjoy and soon to be 40 years that I never stopped enjoying year by year. #Japan#JapaneseMusic#JapanesePop#JapaneseMetal#JPop#JRock#JMetal
I'm trying to buy tickets, for a concert in #Tokyo. But on the website of the group, there is no link to the website of the group, but the venue also doesn't appear to have a website.
So where can I find those tickets ? Is there some third party website like TicketMaster in Japan? And do they accept non-Japanese credit cards ?
Not sure if I missed the #JMusicFriday prompt, but I did want to share my favorite version of the Creepy-Nuts song that's going round rn. Aohi Rame is SO. DAMN. GOOD.