For some reason I don't even know of I can't stop listening to Arashi's 'Arerugi'LOLz...interesting song with really interesting lyrics...it's from their very first album. Kinda surprised, they did sound so young then although it was only around 3 years ago...their sound has matured and I don't think it's just because they changed record companies.
Sho's rapping voice is deeper now...sounds more macho...:) I know Sho was a late bloomer, guess his voice also finished changing a little later than the rest?
I'm wondering right now exactly how many of my classmates read my blog--just curious, nothing more...
Went sort of crazy today and put nearly 50 songs on my Winamp list--that's over 3 hours worth of music!! Cantopop, a few Mandarin songs, mostly Jpop--Jingchuan, you're right, I have almost no English songs on my com at all!! Obviously the majority is Jpop, followed by cantopop...
Anyway, I played songs I haven't played for quite some time, like the Ruroni Kenshin opening/ending themes...really nostalgic :) Doing so reminded me why I loved those songs so much--songs like L'arc en Ciel's "4th Avenue Cafe" :D Yupz, rock song...Globe's "Perfume 'f Love" too... love the rapping it's so macho and sexy...The last few songs were TOKIO songs, and as they played I didn't expect feelings to surge through me...feelings and memories, of how I got interested in Johnny's. Although I did know about Johnny's before then, through KinKi Kids and SMAP, it was my craze in TOKIO early last year that got me really into Johnny's, and then into Arashi...:) I remember thinking, "Tomoya Nagase really sings with a lot of feeling/" (was listening to Hitoribocchi no Haburashi).
"Kanpai!"--the song that encourages me...:)
"Ai No Arashi"--Aiba covered this song in Suppin Arashi...makes me dream of becoming that kind of 'Bad Girl' lolz...actually one reason why I like rock songs is bcuz they make me dream of being that kind of bad girl who rides motorbikes and dances wildly on the bar top...that kind of thing. Will I have the guts to do that in the future? I don't know, but I do all sorts of things in my imagination lol...I probably *will* have the guts to do such stuff cuz I'd want to do them...it's only a matter if i should or should not...
"Hitoribocchi no Haburashi"--the song that started it all...suddenly thought of Tomoya Nagase after watching the Ring tv serial and searched for him on Kazaa...this was the song that popped up, early last yr...has it been over a year already? It was around this time last year that I was making the gradual switch from TOKIO to Arashi via V6(um...am i making sense here?). I thought Tomoya was really good looking...then I got interested in Ken Miyake for a short while (like, 2 days?) before falling for Matsumoto Jun. Then as I found out more about Arashi's members, I liked Sho more and more.
Why am i describing them as if they were my boyfriends or something? Lolz--uso uso uso!! They're my idol crushes, not my boyfriends!! I don't wanna sound like those crrazy obsessed fans who completely IDOLIZE them...as the definition goes, idolization is the blind, excessive and obsessive admiration or someone. i don't think I'm that crazy. I'm a fan, and i admire Sho as a role model and and idol...but I'm not that kind of crazed fan who keeps saying he's her husband/boyfriend and no one else can have him, or the kind of fanatics who's trail him everywhere, even to the toilet...When you admire someone, as opposed to obsessing over them, you retain your rationality and your respect for the other person. You accept that he's human with flaws too, you accept others' opinions of him. Ppl who idolize someone obsessively see their idol as perfect., and refuse to accept that idols are human and have their weaknesses too.
Enough.
Love You Only--TOKIO's debut single...they really sound so young then, it was released in 1994 and Tomoya was only 16. he wasn't the lead singer in this song--Taichi or Tatsuya was..."Love You Only" is also very different from the later TOKIO songs; while the later songs are rock songs, "Love You Only" was more to the pop/bubblegum side...lyrics were so sweet...something a young boy would say to the girl he liked. Natsukashii ne? It's been 10 yrs...TOKIO was a new group then, so young and all...SMAP and KinKi Kids were still new, and V6 hadn't even been formed yet. None of the Arashi members were Jr.s yet!! Now TOKIO, SMAP and KinKi Kids are the oldest Johnny's groups that are still performing (Apart from Shonentai), they're the 'senpai' groups..all mature, nearing their 30s...and you have new groups like T&T and Arashi...NEWS too :) Arashi's already reaching its 5th anniversary this year. I wonder, what would Arashi be live 5, maybe even 10, years from now? They've changed so much since their debut, in so many ways---their songs, their voices, their looks and appearances, their style. How will all these change in the next 5/10 years? In 10 or 15 years, maybe Arashi and V6 will be the big senpai groups...what will the Johnny's groups yet to be formed and debuted be like? Who will belong in them? The little Juniors who seem so young and innocent now...what will they be like by then? Will they still be in Johnny's? Will the current senpai groups still be around, flourishing as much as they are now? Or will they be like Shonentai, doing plays, the odd performance....?
~speculates~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~