Different Worlds Apart

I don't want to KNOW what the Ukrainian Transvestite from the depth of the universe was all about :s Really they are scary :)

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lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com

I never know what the Eurovision songs are about. Except I do have the tune of the Ukrainian one stuck in my head. And a strange desire to stick a saucepan on my head and leap around... :)

BTW, I friended you a while back; hope you don't mind.

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Friended you back :) I see in your journal you are having probs with Pride :( That is bad ... can't you download the last two eps from the net?

jdramas

Oh and you are a Bollywood fan ... ahhh .. wonderful :) Should have friended you much earlier :)

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lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com

Thanks for the information; it was very distressing getting to the boyfriend turning up and finding my DVDs wouldn't play.

Thanks for friending back. :)

Great icon.

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Oh, my... oh, my... No words. Happily I didn't watch it at all! You pics were quite enough, Una! =). This is hilarious. Seems to be a super fest of bad taste. Euro pop gone mad.

Well, anyway, all the last year I hear and watch only j-pop. :)

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Well even some of the music was really bad cough UK /cough. The Ex-USSR connection works very well ;-)

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Oh, my... ;)
I've seen that fat ukrainian cross-dresser many times in different shows on Russian TV. Even if he's Ukrainian citizen, he's making his money here, in Russia, and lives here. He always was an epitome of vulgarity and bad taste. :D

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EEEEEEEEE! Isn't it such a fun! We are all watching - But WHAT?? SERBIA is winning ?? (I was so hoping Ukraine going to win!)

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I was so hoping Ukraine going to win

Oh, you joking? :D That fat, old and vulgar cross-dresser? =)

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I was joking. :D If speaking seriously, I liked Russia of course, I am silly like that - I always vote for my own and I thought their song was quite nice. :D They came third, not bad. :D But I wasn't keen on Serbia, I must re-watch to see them again, I don't remember anything standing out..

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I was joking.

yeah, I know, of course. :D
In fact I don't care who win in this contest. I'm not really interested in this kind of music.

When I really feel that I need some pop-music, I choose j-pop. :)

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When I really feel that I need some pop-music, I choose j-pop. :)

Oh my gosh! J-pop is such a slippery slope. I am standing on the edge and trying not to slide yet. :D I love doramas and Asian films to obsession level though!

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standing on the edge and trying not to slide yet.

Oh, I'm sliding down this slope already - and with pleasure, I have to admit! :D Since that spring a year ago when I purchaised at J-Amazon my first SMAP single with "Lion Heart" and "Orenji" - just to find out what kind of songs sings the Japanese actor I'm obsessed with...

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** tries her hardest to resist **

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I am standing on the edge and trying not to slide yet. :D
Gives you slight nude >:)
J-Pop isn't sooo bad ... and SMAP songs are really good both lyrics and singing wise (okay, ignore Nakai's parts :))

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I guess I am not really a pop person , but I do find all your posts awfully tempting. :D

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Well, strangely enough SMAP songs might sound like pop but they aren't. All of them have a story to tell, like in Zutto Wasurenai where a guy remembers his first love, how he saw her the first time in school uniform and it is a very melancholic song because she died before he could confess his love to her (?), or Yowai Boku Dakara where Kimura thinks about the woman he loves and that with her he can be himself and not anyone with pretenses. Or Nai Yai Yai which is so obviously summer pop but the lyrics are cute, about a guy who thinks about phoning his new love but too shy to actually do it because she might not love him back.
Then of course, there are these really cheeky songs like Dynamite.
And these really uplifting songs that just help you through some really bad patches of life, like Dawn or Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana

Music by KAT-TUN and NewS are more rock but are basically all lovesongs, too - Oh and Arashi seems to be a younger version of SMAP song and music wise.

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Hmm... It seems I don't know "Yowai Boku Dakara" song. From what album is it?

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It's from album 11 (SU)

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Oh, thanks! Yes, of course, I've found it!
Stupid me - I didn't notice it among other files on my PC at first.

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I'm not a pop person at all. In fact, j-pop (including SMAP) is the only pop-music I listen to now. =)

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vierran45.livejournal.com

Everybody falls in the end *g* Says a very recent convert :D.

*listening to Apocalyptica's Plays Metallica by Four Cellos right now*

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Yessss! Your j-pop posts are very hard to resist. :D

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I really wish I could watch the English version, Euro Vision Song Contest with Wogan is so much more fun :)

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Terry Vogan is GREAT and his commentary is one of the things that draw me to this show! ** sigh ** It is all over and Sasha is very upset that Russia is only third. :D

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I like his very dry sarcastic humour, I just luved him :)

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psychicnagger.livejournal.com

Sorry to be a pain in the ass, but would you mind putting this behind a cut? :)

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Done :)

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ginger001

Oh my! The pic of those you labeled as Take That? SMAP? are the Spanish boys band... I just don't know the name or how low they ended... but well *shivers*

Comparing them to SMAP it was a kind of insult... to SMAP... O_o' ;)

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Gome ne :) I know LOL :)

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vierran45.livejournal.com

I was having huge j-pop flashbacks all the time I was waching the show (which is probably apparent from some of my comments in my LJ :D). A few times I was only missing the crowds of Juniors on the background doing flips, that's how reminiscent of Japanese shows some of these were :D.

I love Apocalyptica, and the interval program was fantastic! *listening to Apocalyptica: Plays Metallica by Four Cellos right now.

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Yeah I had a lot of Johnny moments too. So bad fashion taste is not a cultural thing after all ;)

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vierran45.livejournal.com

The ESC is alwas such a celebration of bad taste that one can't help enjoying it despite everything. Especially, if you've watched it since childhood, like I have :D.

And watching the Tokyo Superstars documentary about the Swedish song composers and j-pop, I was constantly thinking that no wonder some of those songs sound just like Swedish ESC entries XD. I've always thought that Shuji to Akira's "Seishun Amigo" and NewS's "Hoshi wo Mezashite" sound like typical Swedish Euro(vision) pop songs :D...

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True ... so somehow we Euros are influencing JPop in our own way :)

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plazmah.livejournal.com

As a clueless Canadian, can I just say that I am loving the rash of Eurovision posts on my flist? You guys and your wacky television program rock my socks off. :)

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LOL .. the Eurovision Contest is sure wacky. We had baby talk as an entry (German) we had FInnish Orkses (Lordi last year) ... and this year we had a transvestite from out of space :) It sure is wacky :)

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plazmah.livejournal.com

and this year we had a transvestite from out of space

I saw that! And laughed so freaking hard! ;D

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miss-dian.livejournal.com

*LOL* Whoa some crazy outfits there :D What is Eurovision Song Contest actually? I've not heard of it before. In Japan, every New Year's eve they have a national song contest too, aired on TV, and OMG, the performances are just awful in terms of singing quality, but they put a LOT of effort in the (crazy) costumes, etc ^^ Your pics reminded me of that, actually ^^

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