Author Topic: How did you get into J-Music? (Read 26220 times)

storyboard · « **Reply #80 on:** March 07, 2007, 01:19:22 AM »

First got into J-Music through my brother because he listened to X-Japan. I was curious to what it was and i liked it. Besides that, sadly anime got me into j-music

. First it was Initial D which got me into the group MOVE, and from there my likings of J-music grew Heh.

darkzorb · « **Reply #81 on:** March 07, 2007, 07:46:53 AM »

I actually think this is pretty common, but I started my liking of J-Music from playing lots and lots of DDR when I first started High School.

aznanimedude · « **Reply #82 on:** March 07, 2007, 10:36:17 PM »

my cousin shoving it down my throat and forcing me to like it....heavily overexaggerated tho

actually he showed me a PV of real emotion by Kumi Koda...after i finished staring at her i looked up more j-pop artists like ayumi hamasaki and others...then shortly after i listened to H!P for a LONG WHILE...now i've moved onto j-rock

...yeah that's basically me in a nutshell

lemonado · « **Reply #83 on:** March 08, 2007, 06:42:45 AM »

First japanese song I ever heard was X Japan's Tears.. I remember listening to that song everyday countless number of times.. So much passion when Toshi sings it.. Now I also listen to all types of J-pop.. I like Ayumi

RL6 · « **Reply #84 on:** March 11, 2007, 01:58:54 AM »

For me, Dragonball Z

Dragonbal Z lend to an interest in anime, the interest lead me to initial d, and that lead me to move, which got me into j-pop and j-rock.

then came beatmania =)

burichu · « **Reply #85 on:** March 15, 2007, 01:38:14 PM »

Sailor Moon when I was 10．Ai no Senshi. ’Nuff said.

NAzu · « **Reply #86 on:** March 18, 2007, 12:09:26 AM »

My big brother listened Ayumi Hamasaki and ELT and I thought like "this sounds intresting" and later when I got my own comp I started listening more and more japanese and korean music. Now all music I have is pretty much japanese and korean rock and pop.

DrunkenChi · « **Reply #87 on:** March 18, 2007, 02:18:38 AM »

I'm a big fan of the Fatal Frame series, and Amano Tsukiko did the theme songs for two and three. I got into it from there.

BigDnm01 · « **Reply #88 on:** March 18, 2007, 03:57:45 AM »

same here man, most of my computer contain j-music,k-music, and chinese music. in fact i have 150gb of stuffs. although i don't have a lot of different one, most of it contains morning musume(which tooks up like 134gb) , anime songs, and selected artists that i've been listening to, i wanna check out other artists and songs that i've never heard before but for some unknown reasons, i just don't. i know i've been missing out on some good ones. that's why i've taken some time and listen to whatever it is i find and see if i like it or not.

okayasu · « **Reply #89 on:** March 18, 2007, 07:07:16 AM »

TO be really honest..i was never too keen on jap music..i thought..well if u cant' understand it..then you can't really enjoy it..cuz you won't know the deeper meaning of the songs..
but damn!..i feel madly in love with gackt when i heard his amazing voice!..even when i don't understand a word he is singing..but i can't help feeling amazed with his voice....an that's when it started...my love for jap music..lol

nkcac · « **Reply #90 on:** March 19, 2007, 09:48:18 PM »

through anime i believe... i loved some ed or op to a series and searched for the song and eventually got into different singers and groups, and then i started liking a lot of asian music^^

BoAayu · « **Reply #91 on:** March 21, 2007, 12:48:06 AM »

I started out by watching Inuyasha. The ED - was Ayumi Hamasaki "Dearest". So from there I started to get hooked on j-pop and a variety of other singers/groups. Then I got hooked. And became really obsessed with it. Also k-pop and c-pop? Lol

cck · « **Reply #92 on:** March 21, 2007, 01:05:34 AM »

That was many, many years ago (less than 10 years). When I saw BoA first album "Listen to my heart", I had this thinking of her being famous in her homeland or even the whole Asia, at a very young age (14 years old or so). With a powerful voice and an innocent face, I believe I make a right choice of deciding her as my J-pop idol/singer.

From her No. 1 fan.

sukiyanen · « **Reply #93 on:** March 21, 2007, 06:09:29 AM »

I started to listen J-POP from Johnny's Jr.
first i like them a lots esp. KAT-TUN
but now my KAT-TUN fandom is ↓↓

lopkiu · « **Reply #94 on:** March 21, 2007, 09:30:36 PM »

I start to listen to jap music first off from the anime, then i just follow the artist for awhile until i discover someone better:
so far i am sticking myself with Mika nakashima, and YUI

Pen-Pen · « **Reply #95 on:** April 08, 2007, 02:22:28 PM »

I watched anime from a young age thanks to a friend of mine at the local Hongwanji/Japanese language school (it's pretty strange that I attended since I'm not Japanese, but that's my crazy mom for you). So I guess I inevitably heard some Japanese music that way. My awesome friend Sean Westfall lent me some second or third generation fansubs of Guyver and some Gundam, if I remember correctly. The shit was on VHS and everything.

But more importantly was when my brother started attending high school. Some of his friends were heavy into anime/J-pop/DDR/Japan in general and they lent him a SPEED CD and some mix CDs with a bunch of groups, as well as a huge sack of fansubbed anime. If I remember correctly, they even showed him Morning Musume with Koi no Dance Site and Happy Summer Wedding, since those songs just came out back then LOL. Got hooked on SPEED big time, surprisingly, since I never really listened to any music before and didn't own any music of my own. Then my brother and I both started getting into J-Rock, and that's what I ended up listening to for the longest time.

Then as Laruku and Luna Sea started to slow their activities/disband I started listening to a lot of MoMusu after looking at their pics for a while. After that pretty much all I listen to is J-Pop now... hah. Also started getting into K-Pop after watching a few K-Dramas and noticing how cute the girls were.

doinkies · « **Reply #96 on:** April 09, 2007, 07:10:01 PM »

The first Japanese songs I heard were "Moonlight Densetsu" and "Ai no Senshi" from Sailor Moon, in around 2000 or early 2001.

The first "mainstream" Japanese artist doinkies heard of was, oddly enough, GLAY. I ended up on a GLAY fansite once and thought "Guys wearing makeup? Interesting", and started looking for their songs. Well, though I did find some songs of theirs, I ended up stumbling onto tons of other J-pop mp3 download sites and ended up downloading other songs too like "Audience" by Hamasaki Ayumi, "For You" by Utada Hikaru, "Amazing Kiss" by BoA, "Ai no Kakera" by Every Little Thing, "Seven Seas" by Aikawa Nanase...etc. And I discovered H!P on one of these sites, the somewhat misleadingly-named "Fantasy Palace", which was a Korean site (IIRC) that put up the then-new singles and albums for download. I first downloaded Renai Revolution 21, Pittari Shitai Xmas, Yaruki! It's Easy, Popcorn Love, and Futari Gurashi, and doinkies enjoyed these songs so much that I started looking for more songs by MoMusu, Pucchimoni, Goto Maki, and Nakazawa Yuko, and along the way I discovered that these artists were all related, under the same management, and that Maki was a member of MoMusu and Yuko used to be. That led me to find out even more about H!P and J-pop. And now doinkies never listens to GLAY or J-rock anymore, there are so many other interesting singers and groups in the J-pop world that aren't guys wearing makeup

Kon-chan · « **Reply #97 on:** April 12, 2007, 08:41:28 AM »

It's start from anime. Mostly all my jmusic collections come from anime and doramas. But after this I manage to start collect all Jpop and Jrock genre music

robber · « **Reply #98 on:** May 15, 2007, 07:53:45 AM »

I love Animes and Mangas! So I bought a magazine (AnimaniA) every month and there was after one year a J-Music/J-Culture part in it... and they said something about some Japanes Rock Bands. Some albums were going to released in Germany (dir en grey, Hyde for example) so I bought some...yeah and now I'm download some tracks but mostly I import it from Japan... I'm listening to JPop and Rock [^.^] that's my story...

Since1983 · « **Reply #99 on:** May 19, 2007, 06:09:55 AM »

My cousin collected a lot of the music videos of Japanese singers on his computer. It was my first time listening to music by Utada Hikaru and Zard. Both got me hooked on Jpop for awhile.