Arashi


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Switching gears a bit. I have never been really impressed with Japanese music shows. Personally, I think Iron Chef has more theatrics and production value then stuff like Music Station. However, this THSK’s big debut on MS, so gotta show some love.

Survivor. *Sigh* I really wish the unbanning happened with a better song (and choreography). Okay, actually the song is growing on me, but the dance not so much. It totally sucks that they didn’t even get to sing the whole song– Yunho and Yoochun only got like half a line each : S. On the positive side, Junsu, Changmin and Jae sounded great so overall it was about as good of a performance as I could’ve hoped for. Oh, and their back outfits were pretty badass~

BoA; Elen Why does this song sound so familiar?? I swear there’s a DBSK song with a “bye bye bye” part that sounds exactly the same;;; Anywways, I was really distracted by the hair fail to notice much else. I don’t listen to BoA’s Japanese songs cuz I really dislike her voice in Japanese. It’s too nasally and high pitched, like a hyena in need of Sudafed. She is a great performer however!

Arashi; Believe Come on, there’s no way I can not compare them to THSK. Same show, two performances, it’s just begging for it//. Okay, no doubt THSK are better singers, but they looked kinda stiff and nervous which is understandable being their first time and all. Arashi’s performance was a lot of fun! I don’t really like the song, but i did find the rap parts strangely hot o___O. You know what, Arashi kinda reminds me of Fahrenheit. They totally have that sort-of-talented, whatever-let’s-just-have-fun vibe going on.

Okay, I’m dead tired so I’m gonna go nap now. More later perhaps : )

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Whoa… I know right??? Jpop??? Arashi??? I don’t think I have the cajones to pull off Jpop fandom T____T. Honest to god, I’ve tried to get into Jpop before, just to complete the east Asian trifecta, but the ghei and pretty bar has been set high by Kpop, and I don’t have the energy to get obsessed with another fandom in a language I don’t know. However, Arashi has always intrigued me and if I were to obsess over a Jpop boyband, this would be it. Of course I know Jun Matsumoto through HYD. I thought he was completely adorakble and I actually liked Makino with Tsukasa instead of Rui^^. Um, I also watched like two epis of some show with Ohno and Ninomiya and just found Nino to be the cutest thing ever XD.

Whenever I hear comparisons between Kpop and Jpop, it always seems like people obsessed over the Johnny’s boys, then discover the magical realm of SM. The most common thing people say seems to be that Kpop boybands act like they actually like each other, whereas Jpop boybands don’t??? Is this right?? I’ve watched a few videos of Arashi and they were really cute with each other and seemed to get along fine. Anyone want to tell me more about them?? They’ve been around for almost 10 years, where do I even start???

LOL, anyways, this is the pv for their new single that came out a week or so ago. Um, it’s sort of magical and fantasy and I dunno, I think it’s really kwel. I love the song more and more each time I listen to it. It’s for a new show with one of them right? IDK, I’ll dig around a little more, and maybe I’ll at least become a casual fan ; ).