Lately I noticed that I'm leaning more onto K-music. Not just DBSK. Of course, I love them still, but I find listening to K-music refreshing (with me listening J-pop and rock for so long.). And I think I'm losing my patience with loud music (Omo, am I getting old?!), for I recently find SuJu's Don't Don too noisy for my liking.
With Japanese music, I started with the Rock scene. After watching GLAY's Concert at Tokyo Disneyland or Universal Studios back in 2003 on NHK, I became entranced. I started with GLAY, moved onto Visual Kei and L'Arc~en~Ciel. I was pretty stuck with the Visual Kei style with Malice Mizer and started my infatuation with Gackt. Then I listened to Kagrra.
All the while liking L'Arc due to my friend, I started onto JPop. I first listened to Utada Hikaru (who doesn't? XD), Ayumi Hamasaki, Shimatani Hitomi and Mai Kuraki. I dropped the later three later (I found their voices too high for my taste).
2005-2006 was the year I started to know more Japanese artists. But I was still picky with the people I listen to. By that time I already liked Arashi and was really getting into the whole JE thing. But actually, the first group that drew me into the JE world was KAT-TUN, when I found out that Kamenashi Kazuya had my favorite male Japanese name.
by 2006-2007, I was already very engrossed in Japanese Dramas. Hana Yori Dango was the one that started it all. I remember watching the first episode just out of curiosity, and then poof - it all went downhill from there. I became a solid fan of Arashi within this time period, and started listening to Crystal Kay. I think pretty much Matsumoto Jun started my JPoppiness boom.
By 2007-2008, I was starting to get tired of the JE world. : O Mean, but I don't know. I wanted real music, nice music. Not just cute pretty boys who can sing to a microphone. I chanced upon Ikimonogakari and Ayaka (I LOVE THEM! Kiyoe and Ayaka~!) and grew addicted. It was around summer of 2007 when I chanced upon a certain song named Choosey Lover. This was the prelude to my DBSK craze.
I listened to Choosey Lover and liked it. Then I heard Shine and Summer Dream. When I heard these songs, I wasn't impressed enough to look DBSK up, but I knew they were up there somewhere. I liked the songs, I listened to them a lot, but I still didn't know whose small voice that was. But I got a copy of the a cappella version of Stay with Me Tonight, and that sparked it. I looked them up a bit, but being more accustomed to Japanese, I had a hard time putting their names to their faces. The only name I could remember was Jaejoong, since his name was just unique...sounding.
The song that really did me in was Rising Sun. When I got the song and heard it, I was blown away. Wonderful beat, melody, vocals, add in that hot guy screaming 'NOOOO' in the background. It was this song that made me look up the boys, watch the video relentlessly and try to dance their dance in the Photolab. That song hit me hard, I have around four to five copies of it in my iPod.
And then 2008. Still more of a drama freak, still picky with my selections. I don't watch any drama that's showing, i only watch those which interest me. Strangely enough, all or most of them are manga adaptations (if they're Jap dramas). I watch dramas from Japan, Korea, Taiwan. I listen lately to mostly Korean music (DBSK, Seven, Jang Ri In (lol, C-Pop!), but I still listen to Japanese music (Ayaka and Ikimonogakari - I'm still looking for a good japanese male ballad singer, aside from Hirai Ken).
I just finished catching up with We Got Married, actually. ^^
Now, I want to listen to more Clazziquai, Cherry Filter, Loveholic, Jaurim. Sung Seung-Ki and more ballad singers. So yeah. That is my asian music history. : O
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If you know any good male japanese ballad singer, let me know. : D
Current Music -- Flowerpot -- Loveholic
posted by aya-chan @ 14.6.08
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