Where do I start? This song is amazingly fun to listen to. It puts a smile on my face every time I hear it, it also likes getting stuck in my head for days. I have been known to be singing this while at work!
This particular artist, I love her choreography more than her vocals. However, in this particular song she shows her vocals off well. Her hip movements are to be envied, personally. Sometimes I wish I could dance like her, just to say I can! Haha!
I know a lot of my friends like this song. I can see why, for many different reasons. Beautiful lady singing and gyrating her hips a lot showing a lot of flesh? Haha, I kid! I do think they like this song because its happy, and just makes you want to dance. The video is full of colour and smiles, it also has a slight 90s feel to it. Maybe that is just me though.
I also like to sing this song while waiting for my order of bubble tea- I am not sure why.
I would like to take a trip into her other songs too someday! She has so many that I love. I will post them in the near future!
Hope you enjoy this song as much as I do. Always makes me feel happy and in a dance-y mood!
I have another recommendation from a friend. Asked personally I might add! hehe.
Okay- ONWARDS!
Big Bang - Loser
This song is actually quite interesting to me. From my past experience of listening to Big Bang, they were quite upbeat and love song. This one seems to go in the opposite direction, the imagery on the music video clears that point up nicely.
It is a nice sound, in my honest opinion. It is calm, which is what I would expect from a song like this. Quite sorrowful. When you read the lyrics, they are quite...hard hitting. The melody of the song fits the lyrics perfectly as I feel when you are in that state of mind- everything seems slower. A lot of bands put the feeling "loser" or melancholy to hard, fast, thrashing around music as if its anger. It is not, and this gives off the feeling that they are slowly declining into depression - leading to suicide, or wanting to be dead.
As much as this song is depression, it is absolutely beautiful - for that reason. It is quite refreshing to hear a band sing a song about these darker feelings instead of happy love is everywhere. There is a huge difference between a song like this and a song about a breakup. Or maybe this is just a song about love/breakup and is just very dramatic. haha!
I am so glad I was given this song. It is something I can sit and listen to, thoroughly enjoy. It is a nice, easy listening song. Hope you enjoy it!
I decided to write yet another band post. Mostly because this band has importance to me. So many good and bad memories, it has brought things into my life.
Let's start from the beginning shall we?
Versailles - Revenant Choir - 2007
I remember waiting for the clock to tick over to when this song was released. Sounds lame I know, but it was worth the wait. This is the first single from Versailles. I found a cut version due to the speech at the beginning can get rather annoying.
I love how this song dives straight into the heavy drumming and guitar. So much skill from the members in this band. The vocals stay strong throughout the track, Kamjio has a very powerful voice and is carried well. The music and vocals work well together to bring an amazing first single.
I will just be showing you my favourite songs.
Versailles - Red Carpet Days
Again, another song that jumps straight into the heavy guitar and drumming. At live shows, this always got the crowd going, everyone jumping around and getting hyped for the rest of the concert. I remember the band being highly enthusiastic when they played this- I think it was more to get them warmed up! The solo's are near perfection, they are created and played by both guitarists. A lot of people claim it is just Teru or just Hizaki, but in actuality, most of the "solos" are played together. They are far too complex to play on their own. True, they do have a solo each, but you can tell the difference. Again, Kamijo's vocals are strong and carry through the song. I find his vocals are quite unique.
Versailles - Amorphous
I feel this song is slightly underrated. The violin gives this song a whole different feel. Whenever I hear it, it makes me want to dance around whilst singing along. I love this song, it gives off a sad feel, yet it is also quite upbeat? It was refreshing to hear something other than the heavy metal and powerful vocals.
Versailles Philharmonic Quintet - Philia
This song was the single that came out before their Album Holy Grail, which in my opinion, was one of the best. To me, it feels as thought they finally found their sound, heavy metal with opera-esque vocals. Kamijo seemed more comfortable in this song and onwards which gave him more powerful vocals. This was also the first album to be created with Masashi - the bassist.
Versailles - Thanatos
I would like to bring attention to the bassist - Masashi. This song was written by the newly appointed bassist. Personally, I love it. Truly impressed. Maybe I am biased as I love bass? The band sound doesn't change, even though it was written by a new member. The guitar is still powerful and beautifully melodic, the vocals still send tingles, the drumming is changed slightly to work with the bass properly. All in all, I think it went well - again, I feel it is underrated as a song.
Versailles - Ayakashi
This is the final song I will be posting, simply because it is my ultimate favourite. Again it was written by Masashi. The heavy bass, the traditional melody mixed in with heavy drums. The extremely skilled guitar kicks in properly. It just gets heavier and heavier as it goes into the song, it all quieten downs then in comes the beautiful, yet slightly haunting vocals. I never saw this song live, I wish I had. It was played at their final live. I bet the atmosphere was breath-taking. The whole song is powerful. I feel it was their best creation. It flows well. All in all, the song works well to make people feel emotions and I feel that is the whole point in music. This is my favourite song by Versailles.
I have noticed I haven't mentioned Yuki a lot, this is because I feel his talent as a drummer is too much for words, in my honest opinion. It is apparent in all of the songs how much he loves doing what he does, throughout the years of Versailles, his skill got better and better. I think the best song he shows his talent is playing alongside Masashi in Ayakashi.
This is my personal opinion on this band, as I said earlier, it has importance to me.
I have another band post. Well, its more of a musician appreciation since TM Revolution was mostly just Takanori Nishikawa. I do like doing the band ones, mostly because I get stuck when choosing one song to write about...this way I get to write about multiple!
Onwards!!
TM Revolution - Zips
Highly frustrating that I am unable to find the actual video for this song. It is pretty awesome in my opinion. This song was made for a Gundam series- which again - in my opinion, is awesome.
TM Revolution have done a lot of Gundam Soundtracks. They are catchy and make me want to dance. Not to mention that I always think of the series when I hear the music when listening to my MP3 Player. Personally, I think that is good music.
This happens to be one of my favourite songs by TMR, I do love a lot of his music, but this one seems to be played more. Haha. I like listening to it first thing on a morning because it has a nice build up at the beginning as if getting yourself set up for the day. Feel epic. I also like having this on during workouts, if I feel I can't do anymore, play this and I automatically push myself and keep going. Try it!
A friend suggestion for the next song!
Vestige
Again, another Gundam soundtrack song. This was for Gundam Seed Destiny. One of my favourite Gundam series! I find this song is quite calm and also quite powerful. The lyrics are quite beautiful too. I guess I am quite biased because I love the Gundam Soundtracks. Haha.
This next song I was probably one of the first ones I heard by this musician - again it is a Gundam track! Haha!
Ignited
At the time I didn't know it was from an anime series. I stumbled upon this after listening to Hot Limit a few times. I was highly amused. Again this song makes me feel awesome, very upbeat and can make someone feel like they can accomplish anything.
Overall - I love this band / musician. The songs always make me feel something, even the sad/love songs.
I just realised how many times I wrote Gundam on this. haha!
This is an amazing song live. My friends got me into this band simply because I wanted to go to a concert and missed them, they introduced me to the song Monolithand it satisfied my need for heavy music. I do appreciate heavy music, growling, screaming, heavy distortion. It's a weakness. The reason why I liked this band was because it was all of that - and more. I love the synthesis added in to slot it into a completely different genre. I am not entirely sure what genre it comes under haha!
So with Monolith under the belt, I decided to not listen to anymore until I went to the concert. The atmosphere was brilliant. Everyone was involved and enthusiastic. I guess having a few other bands on before was a huge help in getting everyone hyped and pumped up!
I will never forget when Omen played. I loved this song when it was done by Prodigy, I danced and sang along with everyone in the venue. I mean, everyone.
This band is a very Live orientated band, they thrive off the fans, encouraging them to create moshpits in the crowd.
Even out of the live shows, I listen to the music on my MP3 player and I turn it up and feel like I am back there. The urge to mosh and throw myself around is strong, but I resist....in public. Inside the house it is a different story!
I am impressed at how popular this band has become in the West. They were even played on Radio1! A lot of Japanese bands come over then leave and usually don't come back. Not Crossfaith. They come back time and time again, touring the whole country, not just the Capital. They love the UK, I think. I really must try and see them again when they return.
I think if you are into heavy, throw yourself around, music. Then give this band a try.
Hope you enjoy this band as much as myself and my friends do!
