#42 Music: ワタリドリ / The Migrating Bird

Ohoyy!

Finally back from the deaded-ness of NO UPDATE land.

Anyway, I just wanted to share a song from another great Japanese band. Hoho~

This time.. I am introducing [Alexandros] to this blog. Yeah, 'cause there's high chances of pals who like and love Japanese band(s) knew these guys since ages ago. I knew about them since I started being active in Tumblr in the ONE OK ROCK (OOR) fandom..then as the number of followers-cum-friends increases, I started to get to know more. More bands, more anime, more manga, more possibilities in life...aahhh.

But then, trying to keep myself under control i.e. reducing procrastination from my beloved Masters study, I limit myself to be into a lot of band as much as I did to OOR (but unfortunately I can't escape the charm from Fuji-kun..so yeah) - I mean, limiting in the sense of fangirling too much? Sorry, I am very bad in words. (u.u);; I do listen to other bands like Coldrain (thanks to bear sis Liezt) and some other. But again, I wasn't into them that much.

So, this time... at 2 AM ish in the morning, I was going through my iTunes and went to the JPOP section. I thought I wanted to listen to new songs to be played in the lab while doing my works.

[Alexandros]'s 5th album came up suggested and I check on the songs' preview. I fell in love with the first song! ワタリドリ. Below is the MV of the song (hicks, def got that from writing my thesis drafts).

What I wanted to share here is not just the song... but the inspirations I got as I listened to it again and again during the weekend evenings.

I pictured myself, after finally finishing this bloody Masters study...going travelling to some part of Japan (as I've always wanted to) but maybe due to Barakamon anime influence, I was in the village/community like one in the anime XD But of course, it was fun in interacting with the people in the community. Welp, I do hope it will come true one day! >.<

#37 Song: RAY (BUMP OF CHICKEN)

Here I present to you, a song that made me fall in love so so much with BUMP OF CHICKEN.

I have known them by name before but I had never really listen to any of their songs. Then, I was introduced to RAY in a penpal site that I joined. I instantly fall for Fuji-kun's voice and the charm of the whole band.

Furthermore, as I looked up for more information on this band, one thing solidly amused me. It made me attached to BUMP more than I ever anticipated.

The members of this band had been together since middle school. They formed the band together and performed for the first time in their school festival. It's their very bond of friendship that got me into them so much, so madly tbh. Hahaha. AND the lyrics! Fujiwara Motoo wrote every song and each song is a story of its own. The more I know, the more I fall for them.

I went to KL in 2013 for a conference with my family. I went to Kinokuniya in KLCC to buy some Japanese magazines featuring ONE OK ROCK. Instead, I got one copy of ROCKIN' ON JAPAN with BUMP OF CHICKEN on the cover. As a BUMPER/fangirl, I would say that it's a fate LOL

Everyone is just so cute! Especially Chama as he jumped here and there LOL

Check out the lyrics here and translation here!

#32 My recent jam

Fall Out Boy - Alone Together

I don't know where you're going
But do you got room for one more troubled soul?
I don't know where I'm going but I don't think I'm coming home
And I said I'll check in tomorrow if I don't wake up dead
This is the road to ruin
And we're starting at the end

Say yeah
Let's be alone together
We could stay young forever
Scream it from the top of your lungs
Say yeah
Let's be alone together
We could stay young forever
We'll stay young, young, young, young, young.

You cut me off, I lost my track
It's not my fault, I'm a maniac
It's not funny anymore, no it's not

My heart is like a stallion
They love it more when it's broken
Do you wanna feel beautiful?
Do you wanna?

I'm outside the door, invite me in
So we can go back and play pretend
I'm on deck, yeah, I'm up next
Tonight I'm high as a private jet

'Cause I don't know where you're going
But do you got room for one more troubled soul?
I don't know where I'm going but I don't think I'm coming home
And I said I'll check in tomorrow if I don't wake up dead
This is the road to ruin
And we're starting at the end

Say yeah
Let's be alone together
We could stay young forever
Scream it from the top of your lungs
Say yeah
Let's be alone together
We could stay young forever
We'll stay young, young, young, young, young.

My heart is like a stallion
They love it more when it's broken
Do you wanna feel beautiful?
Do you wanna?

I'm outside the door, invite me in
So we can go back and play pretend
I'm on deck, yeah, I'm up next
Tonight I'm high as a private jet, yeah

Yeah
Let's be alone together
We could stay young forever
Scream it from the top of your lungs
Say yeah
Let's be alone together
We could stay young forever
We'll stay young, young, young, young, young.

I don't know where you're going
But do you got room for one more troubled soul?
I don't know where I'm going but I don't think I'm coming home
And I said I'll check in tomorrow if I don't wake up dead
This is the road to ruin
And we started at the end

Lyrics from: Here

another version of this song that I love:

#29 Fall out together

I seriously don't know how I can get attached with Fall Out Boy's new album 'Save Rock and Roll'. I gotta think hard to remember (or I won't have anything to post here).

*thinks hard* Maybe because of The Voice 5, in the Battleground round, two of the contestants sings 'My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark'. Yeah, I think so. LOL

Ah, then I felt like searching for new songs to play in my phone. Remembering that song, made me search for FOB. I never listened to their new album yet but I do like this band from the 'Sugar we're going down' period. To be honest, I wasn't much of a fangirl due to the fact that I am more into J-rock then.

While searching, I found the song 'Alone Together' in the list of FOB songs. My first thought was 'Oh, maybe this could be a song for me and Net together' since we're the only 2 out of 4 in our gang that haven't got married. So, I tried listening to it and I love it! Searching for the song in YouTube, I found it and it is part of the Young Blood Chronicles by FOB. That got me interested and I ended up watching from part 1 (My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark). It's creepy though.

The song 'Alone Together' gives me lots of feel. Maybe because part of what I really felt inside is in this song.

Cut me off I lost my track. It's not my fault I'm a maniac. 

It's not funny anymore, it's not. 

 My heart is a stallion. They love it when it's broken. 

And listening to 'The Phoenix', made me energized in striving forward in my study ^^ I'm gonna change my study mood like a remix and raise it like a phoenix! Woohoo!

Check out their latest Young Blood Chronicles video of 'Where Did The Party Go' here

#12 Influence

Went out with my bro today and he drove my car. My radio is on and I was playing the latest album from ONE OK ROCK, Jinsei Kakete Boku Wa (JINSEI X BOKU =). 

And from normal chit chats, I ended telling my bro about ONE OK ROCK. To my surprise, he did check on ONE OK ROCK after he saw my ONE OK ROCK posts / YouTube links in Facebook. HOHO~ 

And yes, he praised Taka’s voice XD 

This isn’t the first time I’m influencing people around me with Japanese music. My bro himself get to know J-rock bands such as L’arc en ciel and Dir en grey since I played their songs over and over again in the house. He he he. And since high school, my best friends are the people who I will talk and influence regarding my favourite J-band or any Japanese artists. Hi hi hi~ 

Last but not least...
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO MORITA TAKAHIRO @ TAKA!!!

#2 One Ok Rock - Karasu

For today's post, I wanna share one of my favorite song currently. Hehe. Sometimes, we do need music while doing our work right? 
I love listening to many kinds of music; as long as my ears are okay with it. Ho~ho. Mikael told me that he found a band that he come to love so much after listening to their songs. He shared some of their songs to me as well. At first, I'm like "meh, I'll listen to them later". But after giving chances to their songs, I come to love this band too! ONE OK ROCK is the band's name. If I'm not mistaken, they're an alternative rock band. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I like this image. Credit to KARAKO for the awesome drawing! 

One Ok Rock with 5 members. Alex is no longer with the band though :/

So, the song I'm sharing today is KARASU. Karasu means crow. The black bird. The lyrics kinda like have deep meaning, but for me.. I kind of interpreting it as something like below:

It's like, no matter what people may judge or talk about you.. as long as you're in the right path (not something bad ya~), just go forward. Keep carry on and move forward~

This is my favorite version of the song. Taka's voice really rocks! XD

If you feel like singing along to this song, you can check out the lyrics with English translation in mousapelli's livejournal here. 

Some other songs I might recommend for you;
- Wherever you are
- The Beginning (Rurouni Kenshin Live Action Movie OST)
- Re:make
- 欠落オートメーション [Ketsuraku Automation]
- Notes 'n' Words
- Yes, I am
- Answer is near
- C.h.a.o.s.m.y.t.h
- more..!!

Oh, last but not least.. the reason why I like this band is the fact that they're a Japanese rock band but their English is quite good! And of course, Taka's (the vocalist) voice is awesome~ what a gift from God. :)