Laughing my ass off ...

[scottishlass]

OMG ... Eurovision Song Contest is proof that bad fashion sense is a global disease. Seriously! We might snicker about all those strange stage outfits J-Pop idols wear, but apart from recent NewS and Kanjani 8 outfits, we Euros just owned it all with this year's Euro Song Contest.
Additionally, there were two singers who looked like they were channeling Amy from Evanescence. And the Greek singer looked like a genetic clone between Hrthik Roshan and Zayed Khan.
Let me give you a little peak in this year's horror cabinet of outfits from hell:

Channeling Evanescence	Take That? SMAP?
Channeling Evanescence #2	Seriously, he looked like Hrthik cloned with Zayed
Tokio Hotel meets Gackt	The Fatal Picards ... fatally in pink
Three Tenors?	T.A.T.U. they ain't
I really have no words ...	I wanna watch Good Luck!! all of a sudden
Errrr....
Fantasy Indians? That looked more like a Bollywood picturization.	Male? Female?

Who won? Dunno and don't care. I'm listening to the only highlight of this show: Apocalyptica!!
Serbia won - and upon second listening it is a nice song.

Comments

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

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..

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

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. :)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

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!

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

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...

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

** tries her hardest to resist **

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

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 :))

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

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

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

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.

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

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

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

It's from album 11 (SU)

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

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

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

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

[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*

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

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