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[fox1]

hey

so I keep hearing this songstress in restaurants, net cafes!

I'd kind of like to know who she is, and maybe get her CD.

She seems to have 2 huge huge songs right at the moment any ideas? (pop )


...speaking of music, if you want to throw in some cool artists from this nation, please... that would be great!

[wintersweet]

I think you might have to narrow it down just a wee bit. But maybe this list of the music charts in Japan might help:
http://www.mnet.ne.jp/~hbr/japan_e.htm

[fox1]

cool wintersweet

maybe it has to be one of these... could be barking up the wrong tree tho!!

1 - BANG!BANG!バカンス SMAP VICL-35888 2005年7月27日
2 1 SCREAM GLAY�EXILE RZCD-45238 2005年7月20日
3 - Wings of Words(初回生産限定盤) CHEMISTRY DFCL-1211 2005年7月27日
4 2 プラネタリウム BUMP OF CHICKEN TFCC-89142 2005年7月21日
5 - ひまわりのRhapsody(初回限定盤) リュ・シウォン TKCA-72895 2005年7月27日
6 - 色っぽい じれったい(初回生産限定盤) モーニング娘。 EPCE-5371 2005年7月27日
7 4 BOHBO No.5/神の島遥か国 サザンオールスターズ VICL-36050 2005年7月20日
8 - Wings of Words(通常盤) CHEMISTRY DFCL-1212 2005年7月27日
9 6 四次元 Four Dimensions Mr.Children TFCC-89139 2005年6月29日
10 7 Link/Promised land 2005(通常盤) L'Arc～en～Ciel�P'UNK～EN～CIEL KSCL-883 2005年7月20日
11 3 Link/Promised land 2005(初回生産限定盤) L'Arc～en～Ciel�P'UNK～EN～CIEL KSCL-881 2005年7月20日
12 - CAUSATION BRAHMAN TFCC-89138 2005年7月27日
13 - 蒼天に向かって ロードオブメジャー CTCR-80006 2005年7月27日
14 9 Dreamland BENNIE K FLCF-4060 2005年6月8日
15 - TAO(CD+DVD) Do As Infinity AVCD-30766 2005年7月27日
16 - 色っぽい じれったい(通常盤) モーニング娘。 EPCE-5372 2005年7月27日
17 10 D-tecnoLife UVERworld SRCL-5922 2005年7月6日
18 12 ここにしか咲かない花 コブクロ WPCL-10188 2005年5月11日
19 8 TEPPEN(初回生産限定盤) NEWS JECN-72 2005年7月13日
20 13 お願い!セニョリータ ORANGE RANGE SRCL-5918 2005年6月8日
21 11 TEPPEN(通常盤) NEWS JECN-73 2005年7月13日
22 14 エル・ミラドール～展望台の唄～ nobodyknows+ AICL-1627 2005年7月6日
23 15 ネコに風船(CD) 大塚愛 AVCD-30741 2005年7月13日
24 - エターナルポーズ(通常盤) エイジアエンジニア RZCD-45220 2005年7月27日
25 - TAO(CD) Do As Infinity AVCD-30767 2005年7月27日
26 16 ネコに風船(CD+DVD) 大塚愛 AVCD-30740 2005年7月13日
27 22 Story AI UPCI-5013 2005年5月18日
28 - Girlfriend K SRCL-5946 2005年7月27日
29 - 愛の詩 今井美樹 TOCT-4888 2005年7月27日
30 19 ラヴ・パレード ORANGE RANGE

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or its probably none of those!

ironically, last night after my post, at a convenience store, i heard it AGAIN!

.....could be this one

「fairyland」
浜崎あゆみ
エイベックスネットワーク(株)
全4曲

[PAULH]

Well I can tell you the ones to ignore:

SMAP
L'Arc en Ciel
Southern All Stars.
Chemistry,

Could be Otsuka Ai. She seems to be all over the place.

[wintersweet]

[David W]

Just avoid J-Pop as much as possible, it'll crush your soul.

[Eleckid]

What did it sound like? Pop? R&B? Fast? Slow? Please describe how the music sound like so we can narrow down the genre.

And what did the singer sound like? High voice? Husky voice? Soothing voice or sounds like she can't sing at all?

Any other phrases you caught? You've heard the song like a lot of times, so any catchy phrases you caught (or what it sounds like to you)?

Except for AI, I don't like to listen to any of the female singers here. She's probably the only one who can sing (for R&B & hip-hop, not other genre).

[fox1]

wow all good advice ... I'll check out those others you like too.. (Hirahara Ayaka.. and so on)

as to this singer, she sounds good to me

I've got other music in my ear right now, so I can't think of her's ..wait a sec!............. I guess it's pretty much pop. not slow, not fast either .

Listened to NHK radio late last night: Music Square Top 20 countdown, Sunday Night. #7 was the slow ballad that I like. It's not the song I really want to know.. it's the second one I guess. I dunno. sounds like the same singer maybe..maybe!

[fox1]

^^^.. so that would be: ネコに風船 by 大塚愛

edit: how about that! it (or ONE of the songs I'm wondering about.. perhaps the other one too....) IS Otsuka Ai!!

[wintersweet]

Wow, good job PaulH!

And yeah, Nakashima Mika and Hirahara Ayaka have better voices than average for j-pop singers. I also recommend Natsukawa Rimi (also plays traditional instruments) as far as female singers go. I also like Ueto Aya and ZONE, but I wouldn't really call them high-quality musical artists ...

[fox1]

ok...

i'm in the net bar right now, reading this,......

...and, yes, the main song I'm wondering comes on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

let me listen for lyrics: shi gu

se tu me

mi chi ........wa na ro ki

e ba

chi

what a mess




that's what happens when you don't know Japanese

but I like this song



.....she's still going..


chorus

a .... ..wa hi


.............ra ma da

........
co co ni ......
oh shi ....
............................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz no idea!

sorry for butchering the lyrics

[fox1]

still going!!

cool long version!

god I like this atm!

[wintersweet]

ha! You might need to work on romanization before we can look that up!


Tried pointing at the sound system and saying "Dare desu ka?" (da-reh des ka)

[freddie's friend daniel]

This is really a shot in the dark here but could it possibly be Crystal Kay, 恋におちたら (aini ochitara)?

Reasons for saying it might be:

1. It has been played everywhere for the last couple of months although it's not in the top 40 anymore.
2. Female singer, typical J-pop, song is not particularly fast but not a ballad either.
3. It has the words/ syllables "michi", "eba", "hi" in it.

Reasons for this probably not being the song you're after:
1. The chances of "michi", "eba", etc being a lyrical part of any random J-Pop song are pretty high.
2. The chorus of this song is pretty distinctive. It goes "kokoro kara, kokoro kara..." so you would probably have picked up on that.

Good luck in finding it. You're a braver gal than I (an extended version of most J-pop songs is my idea of a nightmare).

[Nismo]

The hits in Japan are horrid because everyone likes to sing karaoke, and if the song is too hard for the average joe and mary to sing it goes down on the charts, so most JPop is rancid.

Some of the talent includes:
Love Psychedelico
Mr. Children
Misia
Bonobos

JHipHop is horrid, and it takes no talent because they have 5 vowels and 'n' to rhyme with! You have to try hard to not rap in Japanese.