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What I Musically Love about Japanese Music

Posted on September 14, 2021 by bakatsundoku

I may be able to extract a post for Texihabara on this subject from this, but I kind of want to be a little freer here. There is something about Japanese music that fascinates me.  Well, several things, really. Babymetal has a song, “Da da dance”.  It’s an extraordinarily high energy

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Karate – Babymetal

Posted on March 17, 2019 by bakatsundoku

I’m not going to review this song.  We’ll just say I rather like it and leave it at that.  But I do want to point out something interesting about it. One of the central musical themes of this song is a contrast between staccato and lyrical.  The part of the

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