Videos

  • Happy July 28th!

    It’s independence day in Peru! So I made you all a playlist again with old school Peruvian rock. Awww, man~~~ those where the days. Or maybe I have my stages… without the internet, I grew up with this music. With the internet, I moved on to music in English… and having Asian friends, I follow so much Asian music now. — Did you noticed the whole front page was filled with Asian music posts??? — And then people call me a music snob.

    Anyway, Feliz 28!

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    1. Tierra Sur – Llaman a la Puerte [They’re Calling at the Door]
    2. Yvonne y los Mercantiles – Sin Parar [Without Stopping] – the chorus goes “I want to dance all night long without stopping” though it would translate better to “I want to dance all night long, all night long, all night long”.
    3. Miki Gonzales – Akundun
    4. Sangre Purpura – Que te Pasa Javier [What’s Going On Javier] – which goes “What’s going on, Javier? You look like a woman”
    5. Fragil – Avenida Larco [Larco Avenue]
    6. Los Mojarras – Triciclo Peru [Peru Tricycle]
    7. Los Nosequien y los Nosecuantos (NSQ y NSC) – Las Torres [The Towers]
    8. Autocontrol – Por tu Amor (For your Love) – This one sounds straight out of Saint Seiya.
    9. Arena Hash – Cuando la Cama me Da Vueltas [When the Bed Spins Around]
    10. Los Nosequien y los Nosecuantos (NSQ y NSC) – Magdalena — referring to a Lima district, so the song goes “I live by/for Magdalena, but I’d die for Susana”

  • Marie Ishikawa – Love ~ Sayonara ha Iwanai ~

    Or also known as Love ~ I Won’t Say Goodbye ~ the emotional animation version.
    Yes, it’s actually the “emotional animation version”.

    How can the little pollitos make such a sad PV?

    Right?

  • Kanon Wakeshima – Lolitawork Libretto ～Storytelling by solita～

    I’m gonna be honest with you. Kanon Wakeshima is not my type of music, her voice annoys me. However, I do find her video kind of pretty to look at… Lolita style is so visual. xD

    And I do like when she plays the cello for like 2 seconds hahaha

    https://youtu.be/rXK-VwuyH0M

  • Kara – Mister – Japan Version

    I hate Kara as much as I hate SNSD — but that doesn’t keep me from singing along to Gee, okay? But I just found it funny that the video is of a Korean girl group doing a Japanese version of their song and their dance is all about shaking their money-makers. That somehow sounds all sorts of wrong.

    By the way, you might have noticed that I’m actually posting more music videos, even if I don’t think much about them. Do you agree, or should I just post what I like? I think posting what I don’t like, and pointing out why I don’t like it would be a nice change for music discussion.

  • Jolin Tsai – Honey Trap

    So…………… am I the only one thinking “I’m too sexy” by Right Said Fred.

    At least in the first few seconds. LOL Right, you gotta admit that~

    and the choreography. not warming up to c-pop dancing. Dance music is fine… it’s the dancing that gets to me. Like I said, there’s so many capable dancers in China/Taiwan… so graceful, so rocking. It’s just argh!

  • BoA – Game

    Ahhh… I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with BoA. Why? I know she can perform, I know she can dance… but for the love of me, I can’t stand most her pop music. My friend liked her a lot, and I wanted to like her… but I never could get into her.

    Now, if only BoA and Hyori could make up one person. She’d be Queen of the world. LOL

    Now, call me crazy and what not, but BoA with this blond hair, and wacky clothing. I swear to god, she looks exactly like Hyori in some of those shots. It’s crazy. I was even thinking to myself that it couldn’t be because “not all Asians look alike,” but GOSH. Anyway, not gonna say that I’m crazy about this video — I mean, compared to I Eat You Up which is a very silly song… Game lacks a bit of HMPH.

    Seems like everyone’s making a comeback. What is it? Comeback year?

  • Laura Linney’s The Big C

    I have a feeling I’m gonna love this show. Though, Linney’s character needs a hotter husband. I’m sorry, I’m shallow… I enjoy Oliver Platt’s acting as much as the next fella, but come on. It’s getting surreal to the point where 99% of female leads have average or below average good-looking male co-stars.

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  • Dexter Season 5 Preview

    *spazz*

    looks exciting. O.O and oh! the tension!! And OMG, the S4 finale was off the hook. Crazy shocking in a season with a lot of OMG WTF shocking moments xD

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    Don’t blame me, but I’m more into Showtime programming than HBO. Yes, I still haven’t watched any episode of True Blood. Yes, I still need to do that. But then again, I never really followed Lost either, and that’s done. You are probably wondering what I’m thinking. Lost is probably one of those shows I would watch after everyone did, and would probably tag as “should’ve watched when it was on the air” just like Battlestar. And as far as True Blood goes, the people that keep telling me I should watch it, I don’t know why they keep telling me “it’s like Twilight, but more awesome.” People, I don’t want anything to do with Twilight, and it should be “more awesome” as far as I’m concerned. LOL

    Also… I wanna catch Mad Men Season 3 — it airs on HBO here — and I should check out Caprica.

    Posting this as a clip, not a trailer ;P

  • Nick Chou – Mad Love (Ai Fang) MV + Fu Xin Han

    I’m all messy with my MV post titles – I usually put “original title pronunciation (with English translation)” it’s that way on my iPod anyway… but here, I post English titles sometimes because original titles are complicated, or sometimes just refer to them with their original titles because the English sounds silly.

    I’m conflicted with Mad Love or Ai Fang. LOL

    Anyway, I’m just posting Mad Love because I wanted to post Fu Xin Han — there you go, another example of naming. I just don’t know how to translate that xD Attached-Heart Man? See, that sounds a bit silly. However, the commercial pop video – I had a big discussion on commercial pop the other day – it looks promising for the cpop scene.

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  • Just Discovered! Oreskaband!

    Thank you, J-Melo – The Oreskaband performance was pretty awesome.

    I was zapping, when their sound caught my ear, so I went back to NHK. They sounded like Gwen Stefani had gotten together with the guys of Reel Big Fish, had some extra fun with Swing Girls, and ended up with a lovechild in Oreskaband.

    And I’m always game for some Ska. And, OMG PAPAYA! I totally kept hearing “Papa Para Papaya” which in Spanish means “Dad for Papaya” LOL but I think the lyrics go “Papaya ga suki da Papaya” LOL and in their “Shake it up, baby” I keep hearing “Shaking a baby” which is even funnier.

    https://youtu.be/4X-AzxiRgM8

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