Was having a nostalgia trip and decided to listen a few of the songs I loved but couldn't understand a couple years ago. Here are the links with lyrics:

http://music.goo.ne.jp/lyric/LYRUTND14882/index.html

http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/ffunlim...antasy.jis

What are yours?

I didn't listen to Japanese music before I moved to Japan and I still don't care for it that much.

.hack//Legend Of The Twilight i LOVE this song

Music from other countries has its own flavor, even if it's in a familiar genre. For him to say that he doesn't like Japanese music isn't that odd.

In general, I don't either. Before I started learning Japanese, I liked exactly 1 artist: Hamasaki Ayumi. And only about half of her stuff.

Now that I've been learning Japanese for 4 years, I've added to that a bit:

A couple outro songs from Keroro Gunsou, the intro music from My Boss My Hero (Sorafune by Tokio), and half the music by the band Ulfuls.

Familiarity with the subject didn't change my views much, and I can see how it could fail to change his, too.

The Women's Work song from Princess Mononoke! I found it very relaxing.

Im a fan of music in several languages around the world (korean, japanese, english, french, spanish and chinese), though most of the times I need to search for a translated version to actually understand. Note that Im brazillian, and we have a very large amount of genres of music here that differ A LOT between them, so obviously, I love Brazillian music as well... At least some of them.

Anyway Yui is the first japanese singer I started to listen to, even thou I didnt understand a single word. Especially these:

(saw it first as opening to Bleach, 5th season?? )

(saw it first as opening to Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood first season)


But now that I read this topic I went searching for old animes and their songs that I used to listen but had no ability in japanese by the time...
This one I really enjoyed from Fruits basket:

Love Hine

This one I watched in portuguese when I was a kid and only tonight searched for the japanese version. Shurato
original:

portuguese:

Ya, most of the songs I used to listen about 5-10 years ago were from animes... Nowadays I listen to a lot more different singers, even Enka sometimes (only Enka female singers, I really cant listen to enka male voices :X) but most of the times pop and rock.

Lotsa stuff on the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack.

Here's The Real Folk Blues.

hmm...

for me it was all about what was popular...

宇多田ヒカル: Can you keep a secret?

宇多田ヒカル: First Love

BoA: Listen to My Heart

m-flo: Miss You

Hyperborea Wrote:I'll posit that Japanese Death Metal has more in common with Dutch Death Metal or Australian Death Metal than it does with Japanese Noh music or Enka. The differences between the genres is going to be more of a factor than nationality.

There are a lot of cultural things that span across genres though. For example, the way bands relate to their genre and how they mold their image seems very similar across genres in Japanese music.

I actually get turned off by a lot of bands in Japan because they're too true to their genre. For some reason I love it with blues, but with almost any other genre it kind of turns me off.