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Well your loyalties are divided//between digital and vinyl//but I'm biding time until the cassingle revival
The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All - Ch. 113.5 - Manga Soundtrack Booklet + Sumiko Arai Interview
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I don't rly follow music but are they/he(?) that bad? I wouldn't be surprised if some musicians considered 'cringey' in america would be popular in Japan if it's just not the mangaka really 'into' western music or so (wonder if JP has an equivalent of Weird Al. prolly not content wise b/c of how strict copyright is lol)
i don't know shit about rock, i think the last rock? band i listened to was the wrecks and i only knew them b/c they appeared on a youtuber's channel i used to watch lol
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They are not generally "bad" per se, they're rather good, honestly. It's more like a meme because Weezer as a band do not take themselves very seriously, Weezer has made their name as a meme band because the music they used to make was considered "geeky music" that were written for virgin losers. This was back in 1990s, the "Pinkerton" album is the biggest example of it, which went to an entirely different way from the "Blue Album" which was considered "Goofy and funny". Can't ignore that Weezer also have a history of presenting themselves comedically, they've made weird YouTube videos to doing Fortnite Map. So yeah, they have a history of being susceptible to internet memes, hence the reason they became one. The problem started when newer fans came onto the scene and couldn't catch that the "hate" was just sake for fun and they started hating on them too and now there's a lot of actual hate present against Weezer.
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LOL well, I can see that also part of the appeal to ppl (other than some 'controversy' of rock stars hooking up with fans and such), considering stuff like "Manzai" is popular in japan and other things, so i imagine some ppl would just like the sound without knowing anything about the ppl behind it before all the parasocialism started. tho i'm sure there are interesting vids out there of ppl going to concerts in JP and a handful of american/european bands as guests alongside jpop ppl
Although outside of like Queen/Freddy Mercury i wonder how many openly gay/lesbian musicians the MCs would know/talk about
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A movie huh, yeah I can see that being fitting, though the movie would've to diverge from the manga imo considering the shorter format and a disjointed feeling of will-they/won't they towards the latter parts so far.
Also I don't think I've listened to any of the bands mentioned in the comic soundtrack, like I've heard about them but my tastes are more metal than rock, but I do relate with the two MCs' sense of untimeliness in their music tastes.
Also I don't think I've listened to any of the bands mentioned in the comic soundtrack, like I've heard about them but my tastes are more metal than rock, but I do relate with the two MCs' sense of untimeliness in their music tastes.
Thanks for the translation! I bought the CD when I was in Japan last summer -- they ended up doing a recall since the Walk This Way version was the one with Run DMC, lol. I don't even have a CD player so I've never actually listened to it.. the vinyl was for sale for $65 at Kinokuniya and I was half tempted but couldn't convince myself to spend that much on something I already have. I could at least listen to that!
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That was a really cool chapter, thanks for the translation
I don't think it'd be a problem because Weird Al always gets permission to make his parodies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/"Weird_Al"_Yankovic#Reactions_from_original_artists. Japan's stricter copyright laws really shouldn't affect anything if an artist is given the right to copy.
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Vinyl records is where it's at! I've recently bought an audiotechnica record player and it's awesome! I fully recommend :3
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Which one?
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Audiotechnica At-lp60xbt-bk, it's got that bluetooth feature built in for convenience but I still prefer using the aux.
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Good beginner unit - should serve you well for quite some time.
I already had a feeling gut yeah, this album list is very entry level. Each song is something you'd hear on a Sirius radio station like Lithium where it pops up 4 times in a couple hours for that daily play list.
And I mean, entry level is what it is, you have to appeal to the main stream with crowd pleasers but come on, some of these bands I have listened to and they have WAY better songs than the one listed (I mean Sound Garden, My Wave or Drawing Flies would be something better than Black Hole Sun which in my opinion is way overplayed and not that good).
And I mean the author can get out there, I'd never heard of Tigercub (took a listen, not my thing but its different and interesting) so unless she really wants to commercialize or she's not that deep in the music, I dont get some of the music choices.
And I mean, entry level is what it is, you have to appeal to the main stream with crowd pleasers but come on, some of these bands I have listened to and they have WAY better songs than the one listed (I mean Sound Garden, My Wave or Drawing Flies would be something better than Black Hole Sun which in my opinion is way overplayed and not that good).
And I mean the author can get out there, I'd never heard of Tigercub (took a listen, not my thing but its different and interesting) so unless she really wants to commercialize or she's not that deep in the music, I dont get some of the music choices.
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