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HARUHI is just one person, it seems. I don't know much about her but apparently she was born in Los Angeles.
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Today I learned about Rorochan, the girl that music video is based on.
Yup Selena Gomez you sure sound over him.
you can sail across the ocean
you can run around that hill
you can show your emotions
don't be afraid to fail
you can run around in circles
you can say that you don't care
tell me what are you believin'
don't think that life's unfair
you can run, you can hide,
i wanna feel what you feel
you can laugh, you can cry
you don't have to be alone
1. E-Rotic - Max Don't Have Sex With Your Ex
A very forward title, and a very forward concept, but I find it so catchy that even I can let up on my prudishness for about three minutes. I just noticed that all the comments on the video page are suddenly in Russian, and that's apparently owed to it being featured in a 1997 Russian movie called Brat/Brother.
2. Mr. President - Coco Jambo
My dad used to really like this song? I mean, it's so extremely silly and the rap is so... there but the chorus is very catchy.
4. Dr. Alban - It's My Life
I remember this song from when I was younger, and it always confused me how something so entirely basic (yet extremely catchy) without singing or even rapping managed to be such a big thing.
Maybe it's just because of the Nigerian lead guy and it became a randomly big thing with immigrant populations? Who cares. It's insane.
Also that last minute is so peppy yet emo.
5. Dr. Bombay - Calcutta
What is with Eurodance and doctors?
Basically, this is the best denpa to play if you're looking to offend half the room. I've always liked it, but there aren't really many reasons to ever be listening to it, so I made one.
Dr. Bombay also created the masterpiece "SOS (The Tiger Took My Family)"
6. ToyBox - Tarzan & Jane
You know when you're a kid and you hear a song and you take it entirely at face value? Well, that's me and this song. In fact, despite what everybody says and [url="
I think acts like ToyBox are probably why I like anison so much.
7. Eiffel65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
This isn't a song I'd heard before this year, but it's really quite something. I wonder why so many Eurodance songs feature very bad spoken word. This one is specifically Neo Italo Disco, and I'm not used to Italo Disco having spoken word.
Also despite this song probably being about an incel, he has a girlfriend.
Funny story about this group from that video's description:
8. Michael Fortunati - Give Me Up
Speaking of Italo Disco, let's dive into the past a little to a song that inspired one of my favorite Tamaki Nami songs; Give Me Up. Italo Disco is great and it deserves all of our respect
9. VengaBoys - We're Going to Ibiza
You don't talk about super random 90s songs without the VengaBoys, and their amazing, quintessential hit that is somehow totally a real song.
I used to love this song when I was a kid, and the music video really got me hooked (young 14w could not resist cartoons). I understand people think the Village People had iconic costumes, but the VengaBoys had outfits, man. Good outfits.
10. East 17 - House of Love
This is another "hit" vaguely Eurodance song, by a boyband that is actually some sort of rave DJ unit. This one actually has decent British guy rapping. If anything has ever come close to convince me to become a right-wing God-fearing left-wing climate alarmist/anti-war* activist (????), it's this song.
*I am not sure how anti-war East 17 were, but they were certainly extremely quasi-religious.
The music video gets extra points for the best 90s greenscreen I've ever seen.
11. Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted
I first heard a song of this cover on Glee, and so I assumed Paula Abdul could sing. She can not. She can, however, dance like a robot (at least in the 90s). I am 100% sure she is the best pop dancer ever. Ever. I mean, honestly, every other dancing pop star that came after her is just a ripoff because she does all their supposedly "future" moves.
Despite the songstress' best efforts, the violin and the retro piano absolutely make this a must-listen. Plus, the Glee version doesn't have her absolutely epic rapping.
Aaaand that's probably all the ridiculous songs I can think of right this instant.
As for actually serious songs, there's obviously Ace of Base's The Sign, Roxette's Listen to Your Heart, and Kaoma's Lambada.
Ahhh, the sounds of my youth. I always thought the song is literally about a space alien, but even so, the lyrics don't really matter.
Since I mention every FAKY song that blows my socks off here; their new digital single -Darlin'- is really really cute and very reminiscent of 90s Western R&B.
The music video is also very much up on the latest instagram tricks of "aesthetics" and "vibes", and I like that even in this ballad they still had time to choreograph a racy dance.
Their last music video, which was for a re-release of half-moon featuring heavily autotuned guy Novelcore was actually pretty cool too since the whole thing had to be done with them social distancing.
Continued:
One day I will actually have a whole song.
vaguely similar in style and partly in the same key
14w Brain, quite dramatically: I was innocent.
-meanwhile, Eurodance and other things!-
1. Magic Affair - Omen III
I just found out about this song and frankly, it's amazing and insane. I'm not sure who decided to combine Eurodance stylings and gothic woo-woo lyrics meant for a Stevie Nicks album, but I am glad that person exists because this song is insane.
The weirdest thing about this is that they may still be around.
2. East 17 - Steam
I'll probably repeat artists a bit, but I think this one is worth a mention for the fact that they somehow got away with the last line in the 90s.
et". No points for figuring out what they mean considering the rest of the song.Also there's a lightning quick Final Fantasy reference.
3. ToyBox - Teddybear
In the same vein as the East 17 song above, this is just a song that's vaguely explicit in it's meaning, and I thought that combined with the vocals was very creepy overall (in a sort of good way!).
4. The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode
This I found out via Wikipedia, and it was apparently a great example of the Streisand Effect. The song contains a line that can be read as "E(cstacy) is good!", and in trying to ban kids from listening to it, adults accidentally shot it to the top of the British charts for weeks and weeks.
This music video genuinely freaks me out and it does actually look
5. Culture Beat - Mr. Vain
Surprisingly enough, I thought the lyrics to this song were really good in parts?
Also this music video with the rapper guy basically stalking the whole party like a mass murderer is very funny.
And then there's the "We're going to leave the rave and go upstairs to... eat fruit" part.
6. Culture Beat - Got to Get It
And in a repeat, here are Culture Beat again, with a song that is really ironic given how catchy Eurodance songs are.
7. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion
When I first heard this, also last week, I was kind of floored. Why was Kylie Minogue doing a vaguely campy song about a dance sweeping the nation, and how was it her debut single?
In all honesty, this made me think a lot about how hard pop stars and their teams work to stay relevant. It's not my favorite Kylie Minogue song by any stretch of the imagination, but I really appreciate it as a part of history.
(literally random because my music player was on shuffle)
just how gloriously happy and joyous this song (the OP of Kemono Friends) is even able to make me tear up
also this is a very nice english fandub
i think i'd recommend moving like a few syllables but overall it works brilliantly
also love the puns
and the rhyming is very effective
I'm surprised rionos was involved in writing it, since I mainly know her for more serious sounding things.
@Stormtroper: I am amazed that they actually seem to have accurately animated all of this:
With all the genres of music, trying to figure out a formula seems like a Herculean task. In the end, you'd probably only decide on very basic aspects.
Mainly when picking songs I like... I trust my gut. Sometimes my gut needs a bit of prodding, but it gets there in the end.
Like with how I didn't really like any EDM until probably two years ago when Tsujimura Yuki genuinely managed to convince me it was music, or just listening to something again randomly gives me a new appreciation for it. Like
NEBAGIBA☆NEVERGIVEUP☆ from Aikatsu Stars!, or OKEMARU! from Aikatsu Friends!, or Promise Swords from the Ensemble Stars! anime.But there's songs like, Stay Gold by (K)NoW_NAME or Born Free by Mizuki Nana where I just knew about ten seconds in. In fact, one of the things I notice is that if when I'm listening to a song I know and I'm not excited to listen to it about 3 seconds in, it probably won't be something I remember or come back to after a while.
Concerning the date of 1988, perhaps it's a typo. Overally the text presents the theme as an early work by the composer who by that time hadn't yet matured, but was already looking into folk music as a source of inspiration. It also places the blame on that Kleczyński guy. Apparently Szymanowski, once he finally heard the original song years later, he could barely recognize it in the tune he had used as the basis for his composition.
This brilliant and catchy song has really, really motivated me to do lots and lots more stuff because I can't bear to imagine being that person.
I didn't know you could do stuff with YouTube subtitles.