6th Station ~Other Bands for H!P Fans~

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

i'm just so confused by the song; it's everywhere at once and then nowhere at one. o.o
Like, there's no structure *^*

[Zunu]

It's got a structure, something along the lines of:

Intro
Melodic verse/Energetic verse/Spoken verse/Mini-verse/Pre-Chorus
Chorus (Maji de...Chocobeam blabla)
Instrumental Post-Chorus var 1
Melodic verse/Energetic verse/Spoken verse/Mini-verse/Pre-Chorus
Chorus (Maji de...Chocobeam blabla)
Instrumental Post-Chorus var 2
Middle 8 (spoken)
Chorus (Maji de...Chocobeam blabla)
Outro

[jeiwa42]

As a result of Produce 101 (Kpop idol trainee survival show), I found this group and now I'm hooked:

Rough by Gfriend


Their choreo and dance synchronization is amazing, I love the song, they all sound stable, and they're all cute/pretty. They have two other MVs (this being their latest one): Glass Bead and Me Gustas Tu. Those two are more cutesy/happier than this, but they're really good as well (catchy song, amazing dancing), I just personally like this one the best.

Random Note: The first time I saw this, I was thinking that the thumbnail girl looked a tiny bit like Sayu, idk, that's probably just me though lol

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

that's a good song. :O
THE BEAR AT 3:46 WHAAATTTTt

[Moh]

GFRIEND is so good. Glass Bead surprised me when it came out cause of how great the choreo/sync was.

[Zunu]

Finally...

[BABYMETAL - KARATE]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvD3CHA48pA

I really like this. Sounds like good driving music.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

I'm not a super into GFRIEND (mostly because I don't really like the voice of the main vocalist), but "Me Gustas Tu" has always been too catchy to resist.

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

it's so weird listening to korean music now because it many times sounds very similar to Japanese, and I can't understand a thing that's being said, and it's super weird for me. xD
Well, guess I gotta start learning korean.

(funny enough my brother started a week ago, for reasons I don't know. xD)

[TotallyUncool]

That happens with me, as well -- I'll be sort-of-listening to a song (from a mix of stuff that's in several languages), not really sure who's singing or where they're from, and I'll think, What weird dialect of Japanese is that in? I can't understand a word!
That's when it dawns on me that it's in Korean.

On a semi-different note, one of the members of my Japanese meetup group spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mongolia, and has an interesting blog about Mongolian cutlure and the Mongolian language. (Today we were talking about the Mongolian equivalent of enka -- traditional-but-pop music with very sentimental lyrics about going back to the old hometown, etc. I think that every culture has some kind of equivalent.)

[esm]

Some of you might care about Perfume US Tour?

http://www.perfume-web.jp/news/individual.php?id=408

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and two NY shows

Turns out I'm probably gonna go to the Chicago show because a friend wanted to go, so we bought tickets.