Back again, and I have a few more new songs I’m listening to!
Last day - MARETU ft. Hatsune Miku
I really like the way the song sounds paired with the vocals, but I think the song maybe has something to do with a broken romance between a man and woman from what most interpretations of the song say? I don’t know since the guy who made this song likes to use a lot of metaphors and is vague with the subject matter of so many of his songs, and it’s extremely hard to analyze them and figure out what is going on in them. However, I haven’t listened to it today as I am trying to make an effort to listen to less depressing and sad songs, since I think those also have an affect on my mood.
Pink - MARETU ft. Hatsune Miku
It was the first song I listened to from this artist and one I repeated a bunch, though it’s very vague and a lot of interpretations have been made on the song, and the most prominent interpretation says that it’s centered on a person being desensitized or obsessed with violent media, mostly from how happy and nonchalant (and somewhat creepy) the singing sounds during the entire song. I like the way the instrumental sounds and the emotion put into the singing at parts, but I am not a fan of how violence is heavily implied in the music and the music video (which actually gave me chills and kinda freaked me out) so I am trying to take a break from listening to it because of how negative it is, like what I said with the previous song. Sometimes there are songs that I like for how they sound but then I heavily dislike what it is centered on, and Pink might be one of them.
~Pastel Night~ - FM TOWNS, DE DE MOUSE, and Sasuke Haraguchi
This was a post future funk song I learned about because one of the artists in the song, Sasuke Haraguchi, I knew beforehand because of his Vocaloid songs, which are extremely popular in Japan. I follow him online, and I came across a short snippet of the song he posted on his account and I listened to it almost immediately. The relaxed singing and instrumentals made me like it a lot, and it’s a bit unlike what I usually listen to.
Hair Swept Back By Gale-Force Winds - Yukopi ft. Kaai Yuki
This was a pretty big song last year in Japan, and I like the simplicity and silliness of it paired with the music video that goes alongside it. The flute or recorder used in the song is my favorite part of it.
I’ve been listening to Hai Yorokonde by Kocchi no Kento on repeat and it’s a bop! So catchy. I heard a few seconds of it from an Instagram account that posts daily recommendations for Japanese songs and I fell in love with it instantly. I read that the song is about being a yes-man and a people pleaser, and those are themes that a lot of songs I listen to don’t have. On top of that, it has a gorgeous animated music video with animation and visuals that replicate the appearance of various 60s-70s animes; the character designs definitely reminded me of Doraemon. On an unrelated note, everyone in the comments of the post I watched mentioned that a part of the song reminded them of the intro to Yokai Watch 😆 What a good game and anime…
BRING NINJI INTO MARIO KART WORLD RIGHT NOW.
five favorite games of all time:
1. splatoon 3
2. minecraft
3. mother 2
4. xenoblade chronicles 3
5. zelda majoras mask
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resident swiftie
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Not specifically what I'm listening to right now but I have had some fun this morning with my automagically generated Spotify playlists that live in my signature. Not in terms of the songs but I've added automagically generated playlist art
Basically, the Spotify API has a feature where you can ask for some "features" of a track. So what I did is pull features for as many tracks as I could from all of my recorded music listens over the last almost 20 years. Then I average out those features for each month (or week, or day). I then scale those averaged out "features" and assign red for high tempo, green for "danceable" and blue for "sad". I then paint an image for that and send it to the playlist
And now all of my automagically generated playlist have colours. Neat. Also it means you can clearly see my Sigur Ros/Slowdive/My Bloody Valentine phase in the overall playlist.....
How have I never got involved in this thread??? I'm gonna read all 100+ pages because I'm certain I'll find things i like. This is right up my strasse. I'm casually into a bit of metal, punk, reggae, drum and bass, but my first love is rap and hip hop. I'm 43, so I do like the 90s boom bap sound, but I try not to be that bitter old head who endlessly bangs on about the 90s and rubbishes anything new. I can't stand when someone says hip hop is dead and they've bought nothing since Dre 2001. There's still amazing stuff coming out all the time, you just gotta go searching now, not much I like just falls into my lap.
My top artists I have on regular rotation are...
J-Live, Masta Ace, Marco Polo, Casual, Edan, Dooley-O, Damu the Fudgemunk, Marlowe, MF DOOM, The Good People, The Legion, Blahzay Blahzay, Real Live, Czarface, Add-2, Oddisee, Paten Locke, Dr Syntax, Pete Cannon, Skyzoo, Kota the Friend, Statik Selektah, Freddie Gibbs, UGK, Black Milk, Guilty Simpson, Percee P, Lord Finesse, K-Solo, DJ Mitsu, The Beatnuts.....
There's hundreds more, those are just immediate favourites. If anyone else is on my kind of thing, any recommendations are always welcome. Thanks in advance lovely people 😘
a lot of Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess by Chappell Roan and Patrick Wolf and some of brat by charli xcx.
BRING NINJI INTO MARIO KART WORLD RIGHT NOW.
five favorite games of all time:
1. splatoon 3
2. minecraft
3. mother 2
4. xenoblade chronicles 3
5. zelda majoras mask
apart of the #HashtagGang
resident swiftie
😻
Still listening to Vane Lily and the Megamind Rules! theme song, but I have been listening to another Vocaloid song called Lie Lie Lie by Kikuo. I had put the song in at random on this Spotify playlist that was for songs that are underrated or not talked about much. I rarely listen to the playlists I make and I make them for fun and for others to listen to. I am listening to it and I love the vocals and how emotive the artist got the vocal synth to sound, and I love the instrumental too. It sometimes sounds hardcore at times, but I think Spotify categorized the instrumental as the breakcore music aesthetic. It doesn’t really have a meaning, but it sounds very sad and morbid. The artist has made songs that are way more darker than this, so I do prefer this one over some of his other songs since it isn’t overly dark.
EDIT: Another song I have been listening to is Brain Revolution Girl by MARETU. The song is pretty much a classic and I have heard it before, but I am listening to it more after the song was recently added to a rhythm game I play. The instrumental is a standout, and the guitar solo midway through the song is an absolute banger. It isn’t a rock song, but the music that plays has some influences from it. I am used to hearing a 2016 version with a slight rearrangement to the instrumental since that is the version available on most music streaming services, but I think the instrumental in the original version is my favorite, and I like it over the 2016 arrangement.
I took a listen to a song called You Oughta Know, which is by an artist named Alanis Morissette. I hadn’t heard of her before, but I heard a bit of this song on the radio a few days ago and really liked her vocals, so I listened to the full thing. Pretty good song.
“Woah-shi! It’s a double Yoshi explo-shi!” - Yoshi’s Woolly World ad, 2015
If you’re curious, the character in my PFP is Flaky from Happy Tree Friends.
I’m still replaying a lot of the same Vocaloid songs, but also a few non-Vocaloid songs. I’ll list them all.
Everyone is a Monkey - Sasuke Haraguchi ft. Kasane Teto - I thought I had listened to all of Haraguchi’s Teto songs, but I found that he did another song for a Vocaloid and vocal synth album called zenbuore soukangou and I love the song unsurprisingly.
Fallen Angel - Mitsunori Ikeda ft. Aimee B - The song comes from an anime by Gainax (creators of iconic animes like Neon Genesis Evangelion). I don’t think I can say the full name of the anime this song is from since it’s a bit suggestive, so I’ll call it by the initials PASWG. I don’t intend to watch PASWG, but this song is pretty relaxing and beautiful. Heard a bit of it and chose to listen to the full thing. The vocals are so calming, and it’s the most pretty sounding anime ending song I have heard. I should add that the song is also sung in English rather than Japanese. From some snippets I heard on Spotify for the PASWG soundtrack, a lot of the songs are sung in English.
Double Life - Pharrell Williams - This one is from Despicable Me 4, and I had heard this all over Instagram reels, so I listened to the full thing and I absolutely love it. I don’t know, it’s the beat and his vocals that just make it sound good. Almost any Despicable Me song with him in it sounds good to me! There is a part of the instrumental that people pointed out sounds like another song, il vento d’oro by Yugo Kanno, and I thought the comparisons between the two songs were pretty funny, given il vento d’oro was an extremely popular meme song a few years back and I was super interested in the anime that song was from at one point.
Windy and Co. - Robin Beanland - I already wrote about this in the thread months ago, but I am listening to it a bit since I’m in a pretty big Conker mood. Still love the song! Pretty charming and silly sounding. Just wish Spotify had the longer version on there.
Haven’t been really listening to anything new, same ol’ songs. I listened to my On Repeat playlist in full for the first time, and man there was a lot of tonal whiplash between the songs.
It consisted of a lot of dark Vocaloid songs in Japanese, a catchy theme song for a kid’s show, silly songs, instrumental video game track that sounds super goofy, a Tenacious D song, and a song about a broken relationship between a woman and her ex-boyfriend.
I listen to a bit of random stuff that absolutely clash in tone with what they are about. I almost never listen to the playlists Spotify makes for me, cuz I prefer to be the one in control of which songs play rather than it being in shuffle. But I think I need to listen to different songs instead. I have heard some Prince and Red Hot Chili Peppers songs in the car recently, and they sounded nice.
EDIT: Actually, that isn’t all that I’m listening to! I was on this “daily bad song” account on Instagram and heard some of Burning Men’s Soul, by Taku Iwasaki, and I heard the full thing and holy cow this song is hilariously bad, sort of “so bad it’s good.” The instrumental sounds slightly weird, but the singing is the standout. There is no flow, rhyme, or any coherent lyrics; they are extremely basic, like “I’m in the house like carpet” and “I don’t eat pork or swine when I dine” and just a bunch of words smashed together, and when there is some chance for rhyming, it is followed up with a word that doesn’t rhyme.
A fun fact, this song actually comes from a piece of Persona media, an anime called Persona -trinity soul-. For the song, the singing is actually taken from a rap album that was made for people to sample for their songs, hence why the lyrics are so hilariously bad and don’t flow. It’s the one time where a song from Persona actually sounds bad. The composer usually makes really good tracks, plus later on he did the soundtrack for the second half of the first season of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and his work on that was really good, but this is the one time where I think he didn’t do a great job unfortunately.
Try to listen to it without bursting into laughter once the singing starts. I was scrolling through the comments while listening and I was laughing so hard.
I haven’t actually listened to this song from him. It’s a song with rock and chiptune music. I have no idea what it’s about, saw a translation and it seems to be about pain and suffering? But the lyrics are full of a lot of nouns rather than being about an actual subject. It’s super vague, but I do like the way it sounds.
Bohemian Rhapsody - William Shatner, John Wetton
I was looking up “bad song” playlists on Spotify and came across a lot, but there was this one for bad covers of songs, and there was a cover of Bohemian Rhapsody by actor William Shatner and gosh it is so bad it’s good, but it’s mostly from how it’s not really sung at all and it’s just spoken. He also sounds really bored while singing it, which just adds onto how funny it is. I love songs that are like this; they don’t sound amazing and sound bad but make you laugh like a maniac throughout from its quality.
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