Music I like
The Brilliant Green bring Japanese summer days into your home. The Japanese band consisting of Tommy (vocals), Ryo (guitar), and Shunsaku (bass) is my personal favorite JPop band. With songs like Rainy Days Never Stays and Forever to Me, they prove how cheerful, cheeky, and also sad Japanese music can be and is.
T.A.T.u. are bringing the Cold War back to life. Julia and Lena are the only remnants from the time when I listened to Russian music because of my ex-girlfriend, but they remain my favorite band that isn’t from Japan. All the Things She Said and All About Us are incomparable, and I can listen to them over and over again.
Ayumi Hamasaki is the queen of J-Pop. Their music was my first encounter with J-pop, back when there were only a few places to find this kind of music. If you didn’t want to ruin yourself financially with huge import costs, you had no choice but to download the tracks from KaZaA Lite. That’s where I came across them and listened to songs like July 1st, LOVE～refrain～, and Boys & Girls day and night. Today, things are different. Japanese music is becoming more and more popular and, as a result, more affordable in the form of CDs, but I will never forget Ayu’s songs.