Color Bottle and Google

Today I was seraching around on youtube for japanese music, mostly for the site I am helping out with (japan.ifokus.se). Suddenley I just heard something awesome:

But how do you find anything about the band when all the text is in Japanese and I cant read it? You use Google! So I took a part of the titel and hoped I got the part with the bands name and not the title of the song. I was in luck. I found the Wikipedia-page for カラーボトル and almost the only word I understood was Color Bottle. Hopefully I "googeled" that together with the words Japanese band and I found it!

Color Bottle is mostly famous for there song Aoi Hana which is the opening for Casshern Sins, a shounen adventure. The song that I found and really liked I think is called Sayonara. So maybe it is a bit difficult sometimes but remember Google is your best friend (and also Google translate). If you get some words out it is easier to find. Here is another of there videos I want you to se: 

It has been a while since I have been actively listening to Japanese music, mostly because I grew tired of all the big girlband like AKB48 where the only thing they were good at was being cute (not that S.Korea is much better sometimes but at least they have some variation). But I do really love these kinds of songs, they are soft and calm and sad at the same time and makes my heart ache.

Miwa

Yes, once again I am writing about music (I have to come up with something else soon...). But this time it is a Japanese singer I want to promote. Her stagename is Miwa and she debuted into the japanese music industry a couple of years ago and became a huge success in a short time. I came in contact with her voice first trough a Bleach-video on Youtube (she made the 12th opening for the anime) and later on trough the soundtrack for the j-drama Rich Man, Poor Woman.

I finds it wonderful (and a bit scaring) that Miwa is only 25 days older than me and is so fantastic. I myself struggle with my day to day life without being able to do anything like that. She has a wonderful voice and it is the thing about her that I fell in love with. The best of her songs are the ones that is calm, a little sad, and acoustic, like her debut song Don't Cry Anymore:

If you like that maybe this can be interesting as well? This is a fan made video for the j-drama Rich Man, Poor Woman and Miwa's Hikari E is the OST:

And here is the opening to Bleach I was talking about:

Det känns som om denna låt passar mig idag! Behöver verkligen det självförtroendet hon sjunger om.

Engelsk översättning:

"In my heart I hide a vortex of anxiety
Which of the roads before me
Is the one I should take?

Those days when I got swept away by other people
I'll say goodbye to that me

I believe myself, I feel like
Everything begins from believing
I believe myself, that warm light
Can't be wrong, I'll walk into it
I believe

Those people who put on fake smiles
Amid all the lies
They, along with the person I was when I was young
Make me sigh

I won't be stained in any colour
I swore I'd be "black"

I believe myself, I feel like
Everything begins from believing
I believe myself, that warm light
Can't be wrong, I'll walk into it
I believe

The wide sky my eyes can see now
And the feeling of being true to myself

I believe myself, I feel like
Everything begins from believing
I believe myself, that warm light
Can't be wrong, I'll walk into it
I believe
Myself
I believe myself"

ny musik

Har letat fram lite ny j-pop/k-pop:

C.N. Blue med låten Intuition ^_^ 

Beast (B2ST) med låten Shock <3

Funky Monkey Babys med Runway Beat

Kato Miliyah med låten Yuushatachi (tror jag stavade rätt...)

Alla låtarna ska också ligga i min spellista som heter J-pop & K-pop på min kanal på youtube ^__^

Torsdagsvideor

Jo, jag har spanat runt lite på videos idag. En av de saker jag såg en del av var MMV's och AMV's. Jag blir så avundsjuk, skulle verkligen vilja vara lika duktig som så många är!

hittade också en relativ ny video med Nick Pitera:

och så avslutningsvis lite J-pop (j-rock?):

Det hittas fler godbitar i min kanal: http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnaMoonshadow?feature=mhum