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

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.

Last edited by wccrawford (2012 March 30, 6:41 am)

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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFmjmaIZ … re=related (saw it first as opening to Bleach, 5th season?? )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ye_EoVcODw  (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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6sUM7RM … re=related
Love Hine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_tywQEkfLY

This one I watched in portuguese when I was a kid and only tonight searched for the japanese version. Shurato
original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_TdSxVRRMU
portuguese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vq7RFwBgdw

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.

Last edited by jonuhey (2012 March 30, 7:22 pm)

hmm...

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

宇多田ヒカル: Can you keep a secret?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwQuXbae3N4

宇多田ヒカル: First Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q5-4yMi … av6M-b_-I=

BoA: Listen to My Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UArNU3GxdWU

m-flo: Miss You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD59LJX2r38&ob=av3e