Music in my veins

Literal translation: A little song about love. Chiisana koi no uta is a hit song from mongol 800, a Japanese rock band from Okinawa. It was an immensely popular song. It was not only the theme song for the drama Proposal Daisakusen, but was also covered by Japanese idol Aragaki Yui, who sang this song with like 3000 middle school students. The music video for that version was pretty nice too. But I like the original by Mongol 800 more. The way that the vocalist almost couldn't reach the highest notes somehow makes it sound cute. Although I have seen the drama too, I did not like it and would rather not associate this song with the drama. This catchy little song about love is good enough by itself. Who doesn't love to hear songs about love?

Feel like Im exploding with musical ideas.. just wish i can express them in songs. how interesting that would sound to other people... Feel like I have a thousand things I want to say, but not in words. Maybe some eighth notes can do the job better. I wonder what will happen if all I eat and drink is music and what goes out of my mouth as well. What I spit to the ground and what I breath into the air.... oh if they can all be expressed in musical terms how splendid they will appear in a sheet of music. Imagine a day when all the words are replaced by music... and we can all talk music. how simple and fun life will be.

This song called Where have all the flowers gone was done by Lara, singer from a Taiwanese group Nan Quan Ma Ma. She also has another new single out called "I didn't". Interestingly, both songs can be played together and a new sound is created. Her voice is very soft and pure. I really liked her other song "rainy day" as well. As a 22 year old singer she is doing a pretty good job producing her songs. The song reminds me of angels talking to each other in somewhere full of roses and sunlight. I am so going to sing this at my next karaoke visit.

It starts with "Nobody knows who I really am"... maybe they just don't give a damn. I like the lyrics to this song. I think it would speak to many people. The song flows smoothly like water, like the ocean waves washing up the shore. It never fails to refresh me whenever I take a listen. The singer, Rie Fu, her voice is wonderfully soothing too. I think she owns one of those "healing" type of voices. With simple piano accompaniment, it is a song nicely done. Life is like a boat-Rie Fu

I wonder why sometimes songs in another language sounds so intriguing to me. Even though I don't know what the song is talking about, the words and texture of the language make the song interesting by itself. Sometimes the melody is catchy enough for one to just enjoy the ring of the language to the ear instead of having to understand the language. In a way it can be stimulating too because our brain will be inspired and excited by the new input of sounds of an unknown language. I am just rambling about languages because I just heard a song on a friend's webpage, which I think is Thai language... but I am not sure. It was definitely a cute song though. The sounds of the words in itself seemed like music to me♪ Maybe I should have majored in linguistics in college.

Recently I am really into this band called Tsubakiya Shijyuusou. They are a Japanese rock band formed in Sendai in 2000. Their sound is different from the other jrocks band in that they infused the "wa" spirit, or the Japanese element, into their rock songs. Especially when a lot of other jrock bands are singing in English lyrics that sometimes don't make sense, this sound is pure jrock to me. The main vocal writes the songs and I really like the lyrics that he writes. They are original and not cheesy at all. Especially this song, Koi Wazurai, I fell in love with it the first time I hear it. Something about it just attracts me and makes me want to listen to it over and over again. This song I find very addictive. Still have to explore more of their songs, but I am glad that I found them. They will keep me out of musical boredom for a while.