"the toothless, moonshine-drinking, barely literate Japanese live, like my in-laws"
Damn, tell us how it really is!
Your article here provides an overwhelming amount of detail and insight into a world that is mostly obscure to me, and I like it. I had no idea we'd be receiving another installment so soon, and I dig it. You have opened a lot of avenues for exploration, and I intend to see where some of them go.
I spent an hour trying to find the article here at ACF where someone in the comments section totally dumped on Gunma (because of Subaru, I think). My in-laws still have their teeth and can all read AND write. In fact, my father-in-law has had his poetry featured on NHK.
I clicked the link to Ado's “Yukue Shirezu” (“Missing”) expecting shiny happy pop, not screaming, growling, and shrieking from both the singer and the band. Not a style I could get used to, but interesting nonetheless.
Some of Ado's other work gets... difficult to listen to. She recently did a performance of her breakout "Usseewa" on a Japanese youtube music program called "The First Take" where singers perform their song live without any post production alterations. She went way too hard on it and I couldn't finish it.
Yes, the vocaloid thing is all computer-generated voices, so Hatsune Miku doesn't actually exist except as 1s and 0s. There are real people writing the music, though. I don't actually know much about them outside of the songs I listen to that Ado and Yoshino sing.
Bonus fun fact: "Singer" in Japanese is the kanji for "song/sing" and the kanji for "hand." For pros, it is pronounced "kashu." For amateurs who are attempting to sing (utatte miru) it is "utaite." I guess I could have worked that into the article somewhere but I was approaching email limit, so not everything gets said.
Quite interesting stories and songs, MD, thanks for sharing even more with us! That being said, I still think I prefer the retro city-pop style from Anri, Miki Matsubara, Tomoko Aran, Minako Yoshida, and the like.
"the toothless, moonshine-drinking, barely literate Japanese live, like my in-laws"
Damn, tell us how it really is!
Your article here provides an overwhelming amount of detail and insight into a world that is mostly obscure to me, and I like it. I had no idea we'd be receiving another installment so soon, and I dig it. You have opened a lot of avenues for exploration, and I intend to see where some of them go.
I spent an hour trying to find the article here at ACF where someone in the comments section totally dumped on Gunma (because of Subaru, I think). My in-laws still have their teeth and can all read AND write. In fact, my father-in-law has had his poetry featured on NHK.
I clicked the link to Ado's “Yukue Shirezu” (“Missing”) expecting shiny happy pop, not screaming, growling, and shrieking from both the singer and the band. Not a style I could get used to, but interesting nonetheless.
Thanks for the link and the write-up.
Some of Ado's other work gets... difficult to listen to. She recently did a performance of her breakout "Usseewa" on a Japanese youtube music program called "The First Take" where singers perform their song live without any post production alterations. She went way too hard on it and I couldn't finish it.
Looking forward to your post on Eleki.
ado has incredible pipes especially for someone that age but even in general
how does hatsune miku work into this? also a vocaloid no?
Yes, the vocaloid thing is all computer-generated voices, so Hatsune Miku doesn't actually exist except as 1s and 0s. There are real people writing the music, though. I don't actually know much about them outside of the songs I listen to that Ado and Yoshino sing.
Bonus fun fact: "Singer" in Japanese is the kanji for "song/sing" and the kanji for "hand." For pros, it is pronounced "kashu." For amateurs who are attempting to sing (utatte miru) it is "utaite." I guess I could have worked that into the article somewhere but I was approaching email limit, so not everything gets said.
That's weird music .
-Nate
Quite interesting stories and songs, MD, thanks for sharing even more with us! That being said, I still think I prefer the retro city-pop style from Anri, Miki Matsubara, Tomoko Aran, Minako Yoshida, and the like.
I have an article written up about them. Matsubara Miki's story is very sad, actually.
I'll be looking forward to it!
I've read a short summary about Matsubara before, very sad indeed.