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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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Mikan – A Redux

Posted on August 16, 2021 by bakatsundoku

Now that I have made clear what the purpose of this blog is going to be moving forward, I feel like I am a little freer to make the posts I want to make, here. So that’s a good thing. Today I’m going to try to put words to something

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Uncategorized AKB48, energy, fun, J-pop, Japan, love, music, pop music 1 Comment

Memories: College

Posted on June 21, 2021 by bakatsundoku

This is the second in a series of posts where I recall some memories of earlier in my life. Think of it as memoirs no one wants to read. The memories are as accurate as I can make them, though they may be slightly embellished due to faded memory, and

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Uncategorized college, education, memories, music, music major, piano, regrets Leave a comment

Matsuri

Posted on June 1, 2020 by bakatsundoku

My formative years were troubled.  I have many horrible memories, of which I refuse to go into here – they’re personal, and it’s not appropriate.  But the memories were not all bad. Every year we had a religious festival – we called it the Festival of Tabernacles, or the “feast”

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J-Pop vs K-Pop

Posted on November 28, 2019 by bakatsundoku

I will not say that I am a huge fan of K-Pop, nor am I a huge fan of J-Pop, but I am more familiar with J-Pop than K-Pop.  But I find myself very impressed with the K-Pop groups I have seen.  The other day I saw a “Girls’ Generation”

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Uncategorized J-pop, Japan, K-Pop, Korea, music 15 Comments

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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5 Reasons J-Pop sucks

Posted on August 31, 2018September 6, 2021 by bakatsundoku

I’ve posted previously about what I like about J-Pop, but I don’t like everything about it!  As with everything, it has its good sides and bad sides.  Here, in my opinion, are the bad sides. The Music Can Be Uninteresting I’ve posted previously about how I think that J-Pop is

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Pop Culture AKB48, J-pop, japanese, Morning Musume, music 1 Comment

Why J-Pop?

Posted on August 18, 2018September 6, 2021 by bakatsundoku

I was actually trained as a classical pianist. Yes, it’s true.  I went to college and everything.  I learned how to either play or appreciate much of the repertoire – in point of fact, if I put my mind to it, there are piano concertos that are not out of

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Wotagei

Posted on April 22, 2018September 6, 2021 by bakatsundoku

If you ever see an idol concert, don’t only pay attention to the performers – if you do, you’ll be missing out on what is perhaps the most unique aspect of Japanese concerts.  That is wotagei. It seems that wota, or people who are devoted fans of a particular idol

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