You've talked me into watching the show and now my reaction to episode 1 of Oshi No Ko is available on my channel! Update: I've also reacted to the English version of Idol here: ua-cam.com/video/WNRVFsWJft8/v-deo.html
The scary part of jpop is that they have been making songs that are honest and pure expressions of themselves without being confused by poly-collections or money-making. Because it is never held back, never crushed, and never homogenized, it produces a mixture of gems, which evolve and refine into various expressions by colliding with each other. I am terribly envious that such an environment exists in Japan.
A lot of it comes from the indies that started & got their skills making vocaloid songs & fan remixes throughout the 2000s in NicoNico. The very unique sounds of those indies in that particular website could be heard all over jpop nowadays. Diving into NicoNico, you’ll find gems with 1k views or 500 views from 15 years ago that sound absolutely amazing. The talent of these guys are insane, and they all released these kind of songs for free over the internet a long time ago. As a Touhou fan, it’s always fun to hear all these songs & know where it comes from, since Touhou music was one of the most remixed by those circles back in the day, despite Touhou being very unknown nowadays at least in the west. I can hear the complex melodies & counterpoints of Touhou music in jpop. Every time I go searching & finding songs from 15 years ago with 500 views, I feel like I’m looking through some ancient ruins finding treasures. The talent of these guys are insane.
Oshi no Ko really has the best first episode of the season bro. It's amazing how the lyrics of this song completely represent the series. Actually it's as if the character Ai Hoshino herself were singing.
If you loved this song then you should definitely listen to more of YOASOBI. This song was made completely for an anime and the lyrics hit harder with context from it. But her other songs are absolute bangers. Racing into the night is probably her most well known one so you should try that next
And on top of that: They are writing the music and lyrics themselves based on novels published by different writers and novelists which is why their slogan is "turning novels into music".
My favorite jpop artist is Ado. She’s a young singer with so much talent. Her debut song Usseewa is a very unique kind of song to me. But ado can do that, and aitakute, and so many styles and emotions in between
My favorite things in music is when a song has so many interesting ideas and unexpected changes. Japanese music happens to have that more often than not I've noticed.
Marty friedman just did an interview on rick beatos channel where he goes in depth on his experience with the japanese music industry and how much more interesting their pop is than ours and how much more experimental they are with chord progressions, super interesting
@@Roninmann Jpop yes. But actually it's based on Vocaloid. Vocaloid is synthetic vocals that can be arranged in a computer. This isn't Vocaloid but Ayase is a Vocaloid producer. There are actual Vocaloid songs on the Yoasobi UA-cam channel that Ayase made. Vocaloid is the most creative genre of music imo. Vocaloid is all about songwriting.
@@Roninmann this is the best Vocaloid that Ayase made. But he's not very good at the Vocaloid tuning. This is a mostly human cover of his best Vocaloid song. ua-cam.com/video/8m1cUgLepmY/v-deo.html
You can interpret this song as criticism of Japanese entertainment (especially idol) industry. Some parts of it are written from fans pov while the majority was from the idols POV. It is the opening for Oshi no Ko anime whose first EP was released just few days ago and it sums up the first ep so well. Please react to Oshi no Ko anime was well. J-pop is like chameleon of a genre because there are a lot of genre mixes in certain songs. I would recommend either Chiai Fujikawa, Minami (her song Ame wo Matsu), ReoL, yournees (My Last Day)... I enjoy listen to Japanese pop instead of Western pop music. When I am not listening to J-pop I listen to rock or (black) metal music.
@@Roninmann It's because the author did his research. And doesn't just involve idol but the whole entertainment industry , that includes UA-cam , acting and Vtubers on the latest. Although just read it without putting too much expectation to it
If you want more J-pop of this level Yoasobi is consistently good. Also worth checking out Ado, she is just built different and worth checking out(she had 6 songs on the JPop top 10 charts at the same time last year).
Yup, Japan takes production and quality to another planet, and I'm a metal guy too, but Japanese music made me listen to genres I never listened to before like this pop song.
I love how the song conveys dark and depressing themes and even cynicism about the idol industry, while sounding so bubbly. But you get those moments in which the singer's voice takes on this edge, before I even read the lyrics, just her delivery and enunciation let me know "she's being very honest and direct right now" vs the moments the song was giving the "lie" people perceive
This song is fantastic on it's own but really shines and hits hard if you know the story it was made for. If you came back to the song after reading a brief of the story, a lot of the musical aspects and lyrics makes SO much sense, and I think as a professional musician you would have an even greater appreciation for that than me. This is really a case where context would be like the salt on some really great crispy fries.
as far as I can tell jpop is an amalgamation of lots of genres of music, since it's basically just all of the japanese music it's way more diverse than western pop if you just want to quickly see lots of good jpop music, the first take is a channel with lots of very popular jpop artists performing music
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I had a chance to listen to this song in Yoasobi's liveshow last month. All what I could say is that it was really insane.
Love Yoasobi you should def check out her performances on The First Take. Also lots of cool JPop out there like Ado, Yorushika, Zutomayo and many more that are so good.
I totally get your explanation. I actually am a pretty big jpop fan but this song uses so many other elements from hiphop and mixes up the dance music, also some rap parts in it, which i usually dont really listen to but in some of these jpop songs it sounds incredible.
Thanks for checking! Yoasobi is special group. They are full of creativity. You can find their English version songs. When you listen to both Japanese and English songs, you will experience something interesting!!
YOASOBI is just legendary at this point. I don't think they have a single song that is not really good. They are really popular here in Japan as well. I think that in terms of anison (anime related songs) they are probably at the very top right now. ＾＾
First time seeing a video of yours, was really surprised that you’re such a small channel because the production quality of this video is really great! Always great to find another perspective on these awesome songs
I haven't seen any comments answering your question, so: yeah, this is the norm for this band. Every single one of their songs I've listened to is at this level or thereabouts. It's kind of insane lol
Yonezu Kenshi does interesting stuff! There's been a lot of interesting innovation happening in Jpop over the past 5 years thanks to Vocaloid composers. Because originally they were creating for Vocaloid, it meant that songs could be made without thinking of comfortable note jumps, rhythm or breathing intervals of a human singer, but that then triggered a trend of human singers covering Vocaloid songs to show off their singing ability. XD We then started seeing Vocaloid-esque rhythms in Jpop, as well as Vocaloid composers going into Jpop. Yonezu Kenshi is possibly the biggest name of a Vocaloid composer who became a Jpop singer songwriter. ('Lemon' is the classic; 'Kickback' is lots of fun).
It's not quite metal, but if more aggressive songs are more your style, I recommend Ado! Her vocal growls are incredibly powerful, and her debut song, "Ussewa," really displays that.
This lyrics for this are extremely dark and depressing. Oshi no ko is basically meant to show the harsh reality of idol culture without sugarcoating any of it. Every transition basically represents the changing point of view of the song. From the fans of the idol, the act that the idol puts on, the idol's true feelings, and the feelings of the people around them. Which the TV I think still has significance from the song cause it's basically acting as a retrospective of this person's life. People observing it and making judgements. But holds even more significance under the context of the story behind it
as someone who is also listens to mostly metal, jpop and rock is awesome, and some kpop and rock too. I also like cpop too.. japanese metal is also great..
I am a punk guitarist, generally interested in music and market trends. I came across Yoasobi, because I pay attention to Japanese charts, as rock tends to still chart high consistently and they have been arguably the biggest act in Japan to break out in the last two or three years. I highly recommend you check out some of their other material, while I like this song, its not very representative of their core sound. Which tends to be technical. Ayase who writes all the instrumentals is a post-hardcore guitarist/vocalist and it shows in their concept even though they write pure pop.
Hello! I am Japanese, living in Tokyo. Thank you for your video. YOASOBI is insanely talented and loved in Japan and now all over the world and I appreciate that they are getting accepted worldwide. Others in the comment section have mentioned but this lyrics are heavily inspired by Oshi no Ko and having to watch the anime makes you appreciate this song much more knowing the story. Highly recommend that anime! So many twists and turns in the first episode. I would like to suggest Ado (I see other folks recommending her to you). She doesn’t show her face but she’s 20 and is a crazy talented singer. Her MVs are always animated and last year, she sang songs for ONE PIECE movie, Film RED and the songs are awesome.
4:42 “Ah yato ieta korewa zetai uso janai aishteiru” - Ai’s last words to Aqua and Ruby -> “Finally I said it, this time it definitely wasn’t a lie, I love you” 🥲
Do yourself a favor and check out the Tokyo live version here on YT, the crowd is insane. I would also say that JPop generally has had more complex song forms that say here in the US. Jpop also encorporates US pop clichés into its being.
This song is telling a story. The shifts represent the front and back, or public and private parts of the idol character Ai's life and by extension the entertainment industry. This group is known for basically telling stories through songs and if Ikuta Lilas' amazing voice doesn't capture your interest, Ayase's composition work will.
It isn't a traditional J-pop song, at least, not by sound anyway. It is unique in its use of different sounds. Every now and again anisongs come out with something that has this sort of unique feel. IIRC this is trying to emulate idol music trends in Japan but with a few twists and the traditional anisong flair. This song isn't intended as a dance beat. Anisongs do tend to have shifting beats like this but most run of the mill shows have somewhat traditional anisong-like feels to them. There are definitely other interesting ones out there. I recommend looking for YOASOBI's other anisongs. They have quite a few.
I think this song does a good job of using the typical "idol" music format which is mostly present in the chores (along with the chanting in the crowd to simulate the audience cheering in sync which is a common activity at idol shows). Oshi no Ko is based around the idol industry and idol music can be considered more "vanilla" sonically. I think it was very important for YOASOBI to have the music switch to help convey the themes in the story and the relationships between characters and their circumstances. Glad you enjoyed it!
ナイスリアクション！ J-pop聴いたことないならヨルシカ聴いて欲しいな…素晴らしいアーティストなので！ Nice reaction! If you haven't listened to J-pop, I want you to listen to “Yorushika”! They are wonderful artist!
Bro, watch the anime for this. Oshi No Ko literally trampled on Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood which is almost sacrilegious considering it only took 1 ep, but it's literally official now 😂😂 Greatest of All Anime they say.
Randomly popped on my YT homepage. For anyone wondering if this is how Jpop is usually like the guy in the video, no this is not the usual Jpop song. This is from someone who listens almost only to Jpop.
Another great and recent Song by Yoasobi is the Gundam - Witch from Mercury OP: 祝福 [Shukufuku] (tl:The Blessing) I really like this Song but they have a lot of great ones!
“Racing in the Night” is my favorite song by them! They make songs specifically for anime OP’s and Endings (for example: ending for “Beaststars” and a ton of others!)
if you want another fun jpop song to listen to, try Odo by Ado 👍 i know someone has mentioned Ado here already, but Odo is one of her most popular songs, since the composers and producers involved basically came together to form a temporary super band, and because she’s extremely self-disciplined and has polished her existing talent and vocal skills into something AMAZING
In this case it's not that the Yoasobi video is "anime themed" it that this song(or a 90 second edit of this song to be precise) is the opening theme for an anime, and sung from the point of view of a character in that show, so they made an extended version of that anime's opening for the full song.
To everyone who watched the op strongly suggest to watch the anime or read the manga. Both of them are really sweet so i recommend it to everyone here.😊😁😃
Listen to Dead in the brain by RetBear the intro to the anime The Black Summoner. Lisa is awesome. MindaRyn is amazing. Also listen to Eir Aoi Hello Hello Hello
if you liked j-pop then you should check out eve he is a really good japanese soloist and his songs are all S tier. His voice is just godly and he is a music genius
Tbh what I think about why J-pop suddenly appears to have its complexity arisen is that there was a small "pop music" community yet apart from pop culture. It's like indie music community but most of them are producers. The musicians there grind their own stuffs without worrying if it is liked generally. Most of those artists are somehow too stylistic to the pop culture Nevertheless, this community grows and finally blend into pop culture in Japan. These artists starts to restrain their unique style. So, Ayase also comes from this great place and did a great contribution into bringing these beautiful songs to the public audience. I'd say that YOASOBI is top tier in terms of popularity But for musicality, I mean the variety of elments you seek for, there're still plenty of them can do. (e.g. King Gnu, Yonezu Kenshi, Vaundy, hitorie, Ai Higuchi, Inoue Taku, Ado, Yorushika, Eve, Wednesday Campanella... I've just seen the j-pop rank to find some that I'm familiar with) And the funny thing is that some would call this templating. They'd think this be like packing things that the audience would like and integrate them which we already feel like super amazing🤣
in the j pop there are so much "high tension" or "cherrying up" music so far so good, but whit other genres are more meh, but this is like better than normal bands in his genre
if you are up for instrumentation, i would love to recommend GFRIEND rough, time for the moon night, sunrise, Crossroads and DreamCatcher Deja Vu, Fly high and boca!
I recommend eve if you liked this! Eve's songs have deep meanings and they are awesome. They are a little bit more closer to rock i think bet is pop..? The songs i recommended to you are dramaturgy and as you like it. These are probably his most famous songs!
Actually there is something more than just the episode 1 in the lyrics. If you know Japanese, it covers the story of "45510" by aka akasaka which features the perspective of another member of B-komachi. They are hugely related and some lyrics are copied from the light novel word to word. I got goosebumps when listening after reading "45510".
If you wanna try more J-pop then Continue viewing Yoasobi. A recent popular one by Yoasobi (other than this) is called Running Into The Night. May or may not be your cup of tea.
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You've talked me into watching the show and now my reaction to episode 1 of Oshi No Ko is available on my channel!
Update: I've also reacted to the English version of Idol here: ua-cam.com/video/WNRVFsWJft8/v-deo.html
J pop is diverse and this style is just one style of many. They have pop, idols, hip hop RnB, hyper pop, vocaloid to rock, fusion funk
Have fun oshi no ko as it gets strange through the series and gets weirder in the manga
Your nightlife songs are based on anime. That's prejudice. ayase says that he writes and composes songs based on poems, novels, essays, and letters.
The scary part of jpop is that they have been making songs that are honest and pure expressions of themselves without being confused by poly-collections or money-making. Because it is never held back, never crushed, and never homogenized, it produces a mixture of gems, which evolve and refine into various expressions by colliding with each other. I am terribly envious that such an environment exists in Japan.
A lot of it comes from the indies that started & got their skills making vocaloid songs & fan remixes throughout the 2000s in NicoNico. The very unique sounds of those indies in that particular website could be heard all over jpop nowadays. Diving into NicoNico, you’ll find gems with 1k views or 500 views from 15 years ago that sound absolutely amazing. The talent of these guys are insane, and they all released these kind of songs for free over the internet a long time ago.
As a Touhou fan, it’s always fun to hear all these songs & know where it comes from, since Touhou music was one of the most remixed by those circles back in the day, despite Touhou being very unknown nowadays at least in the west. I can hear the complex melodies & counterpoints of Touhou music in jpop. Every time I go searching & finding songs from 15 years ago with 500 views, I feel like I’m looking through some ancient ruins finding treasures. The talent of these guys are insane.
Oshi no Ko really has the best first episode of the season bro. It's amazing how the lyrics of this song completely represent the series. Actually it's as if the character Ai Hoshino herself were singing.
I risk saying that it was one of the best first episodes of all anime...
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thats why it makes this song super emoticional!
Season? I think it's safe to say it was perhaps the best 1st episode of anime in general
Such a good Idea to play the Opening Song at the end considering the Song pretty much sum up everything in the First Episode.
If you loved this song then you should definitely listen to more of YOASOBI. This song was made completely for an anime and the lyrics hit harder with context from it. But her other songs are absolute bangers. Racing into the night is probably her most well known one so you should try that next
My recommendation is "tracing that dream".
Its not as well known as "racing into the night " but to me,that is my all time favourite
And on top of that: They are writing the music and lyrics themselves based on novels published by different writers and novelists which is why their slogan is "turning novels into music".
@@aymanime1275 tracing that dream is fire. My personal top 3 would be Monster, Halzion and Love Letter
@@kyanmori9272 my personal top 3 is tracing that dream,love letter, and taisho roman
@@aymanime1275 taisho Roman is such a vibe forgot it existed but that list is valid
My favorite jpop artist is Ado. She’s a young singer with so much talent. Her debut song Usseewa is a very unique kind of song to me. But ado can do that, and aitakute, and so many styles and emotions in between
Ado has been suggested a lot, so I'm going to look into doing some reactions for her.
iri for me
私はAdoに興味が無く、彼女の楽曲全てを聞いてませんでした。しかし、椎名林檎のカバー「罪と罰」を聞いて衝撃を受けました。今では私の中で素晴らしいアーティストの中の一人です。👏
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adoね、うっせーわ
My favorite things in music is when a song has so many interesting ideas and unexpected changes. Japanese music happens to have that more often than not I've noticed.
I’ve definitely noticed that in Japanese music. It can be very progressive.
Marty friedman just did an interview on rick beatos channel where he goes in depth on his experience with the japanese music industry and how much more interesting their pop is than ours and how much more experimental they are with chord progressions, super interesting
@@Roninmann difference. And that’s the charm.
@@Roninmann Jpop yes. But actually it's based on Vocaloid. Vocaloid is synthetic vocals that can be arranged in a computer. This isn't Vocaloid but Ayase is a Vocaloid producer. There are actual Vocaloid songs on the Yoasobi UA-cam channel that Ayase made.
Vocaloid is the most creative genre of music imo. Vocaloid is all about songwriting.
@@Roninmann this is the best Vocaloid that Ayase made. But he's not very good at the Vocaloid tuning. This is a mostly human cover of his best Vocaloid song. ua-cam.com/video/8m1cUgLepmY/v-deo.html
You can interpret this song as criticism of Japanese entertainment (especially idol) industry.
Some parts of it are written from fans pov while the majority was from the idols POV. It is the opening for Oshi no Ko anime whose first EP was released just few days ago and it sums up the first ep so well.
Please react to Oshi no Ko anime was well.
J-pop is like chameleon of a genre because there are a lot of genre mixes in certain songs.
I would recommend either Chiai Fujikawa, Minami (her song Ame wo Matsu), ReoL, yournees (My Last Day)... I enjoy listen to Japanese pop instead of Western pop music. When I am not listening to J-pop I listen to rock or (black) metal music.
I’m getting lots of requests to watch Oshi No Ko that I think I’ll have to do it. Thank you for all the recommendations!
A short story was also created with more context called 45510
Maybe Rumbling lmao
@@delun4 Rumbling is more Japanese metalcore. You are hinting at the AOT opening by SiM, am I correct?
I thought whole anime is all about idol industry and how bad it is...well i was wrong
It's an opening for an anime that is called OSHI NO KO, it's a fricking masterpiece
I haven't heard of it. I'll have to check it out!
Definitely Anime of Year
😮 everybody is saying this. im so curious now.
@@Roninmann It's because the author did his research. And doesn't just involve idol but the whole entertainment industry , that includes UA-cam , acting and Vtubers on the latest. Although just read it without putting too much expectation to it
@@Roninmann it’s definitely not anime of the year but it’s decent so far, strong first episode for sure.
ノリノリで、聞いてくれてありがとう
YOASOBI has been producing many other cool ones.
サイコーだよ❤️
世界中でたくさんの人が評価してくれて嬉しいねー😊
If you want more J-pop of this level Yoasobi is consistently good. Also worth checking out Ado, she is just built different and worth checking out(she had 6 songs on the JPop top 10 charts at the same time last year).
I second the Ado recommendation. There's a lot for a metal-head to love there.
Triple the Ado recommendation, Easily one of my favorite artists
yet another Ado recommendation. She's got so much *power* in her voice.
Yup, Japan takes production and quality to another planet, and I'm a metal guy too, but Japanese music made me listen to genres I never listened to before like this pop song.
I love how the song conveys dark and depressing themes and even cynicism about the idol industry, while sounding so bubbly. But you get those moments in which the singer's voice takes on this edge, before I even read the lyrics, just her delivery and enunciation let me know "she's being very honest and direct right now" vs the moments the song was giving the "lie" people perceive
Check out the live version. It's something else. Just amazing.
他的MV 歌詞要表達的東西太多了 每個MV的畫面都代表著很深的含意 了解以後真的會毛骨悚然
This song is fantastic on it's own but really shines and hits hard if you know the story it was made for. If you came back to the song after reading a brief of the story, a lot of the musical aspects and lyrics makes SO much sense, and I think as a professional musician you would have an even greater appreciation for that than me. This is really a case where context would be like the salt on some really great crispy fries.
Jpop is a woooorld of creativity. There are definitely jewels out there for you waiting to be discovered :)
歌詞を見てると日本語って確かにややこしいですねw
このミュージックビデオはこの曲のためのものではなく、まずアニメ「推しの子」がありそのための主題歌として制作されています。MVに出てくるキャラクターはアニメの主人公たちです。
MVは曲に合わせて作られていますがまずアニメありきであることを理解してください。また、YOASOBIは英語歌詞のバージョンを自らリリースしています。そちらも聞いてみてください。
ちなみにアニメのガンダム彗星の魔女の１期の主題歌も同じような形式で制作しています。ありがとうございました。
as far as I can tell jpop is an amalgamation of lots of genres of music, since it's basically just all of the japanese music it's way more diverse than western pop
if you just want to quickly see lots of good jpop music, the first take is a channel with lots of very popular jpop artists performing music
I had a chance to listen to this song in Yoasobi's liveshow last month. All what I could say is that it was really insane.
If you like this type of music you would definitely like Yoasobi’s other songs. You would probably also like Ado.
Man would have a field day with Ussewa.
@@LotusHearted Tot Musica and Backlight too
Love Yoasobi you should def check out her performances on The First Take. Also lots of cool JPop out there like Ado, Yorushika, Zutomayo and many more that are so good.
Awesome! I’ll check out those recommendations!
I listened to this song so much that I now remember the lyrics like the back of my hand
I totally get your explanation. I actually am a pretty big jpop fan but this song uses so many other elements from hiphop and mixes up the dance music, also some rap parts in it, which i usually dont really listen to but in some of these jpop songs it sounds incredible.
Thanks for checking!
Yoasobi is special group. They are full of creativity.
You can find their English version songs. When you listen to both Japanese and English songs, you will experience something interesting!!
YOASOBI is just legendary at this point. I don't think they have a single song that is not really good.
They are really popular here in Japan as well. I think that in terms of anison (anime related songs) they are probably at the very top right now. ＾＾
First time seeing a video of yours, was really surprised that you’re such a small channel because the production quality of this video is really great! Always great to find another perspective on these awesome songs
Thank you for the kind words. Glad you were able to find me!
reminds me of the vocaloid days way back :D
I haven't seen any comments answering your question, so: yeah, this is the norm for this band. Every single one of their songs I've listened to is at this level or thereabouts. It's kind of insane lol
Great to see Yoasobi getting the love they deserve
Yonezu Kenshi does interesting stuff! There's been a lot of interesting innovation happening in Jpop over the past 5 years thanks to Vocaloid composers. Because originally they were creating for Vocaloid, it meant that songs could be made without thinking of comfortable note jumps, rhythm or breathing intervals of a human singer, but that then triggered a trend of human singers covering Vocaloid songs to show off their singing ability. XD We then started seeing Vocaloid-esque rhythms in Jpop, as well as Vocaloid composers going into Jpop. Yonezu Kenshi is possibly the biggest name of a Vocaloid composer who became a Jpop singer songwriter. ('Lemon' is the classic; 'Kickback' is lots of fun).
It's not quite metal, but if more aggressive songs are more your style, I recommend Ado! Her vocal growls are incredibly powerful, and her debut song, "Ussewa," really displays that.
This lyrics for this are extremely dark and depressing. Oshi no ko is basically meant to show the harsh reality of idol culture without sugarcoating any of it. Every transition basically represents the changing point of view of the song. From the fans of the idol, the act that the idol puts on, the idol's true feelings, and the feelings of the people around them.
Which the TV I think still has significance from the song cause it's basically acting as a retrospective of this person's life. People observing it and making judgements. But holds even more significance under the context of the story behind it
Exactly! Showbiz in general is what portrayed in this song.
as someone who is also listens to mostly metal, jpop and rock is awesome, and some kpop and rock too. I also like cpop too.. japanese metal is also great..
If you watch episode 1 and read the lyrics, the meaning of the songs hits so much harder.
Episode 1 was a whole ass movie (best of the year in my opinion)
I am a punk guitarist, generally interested in music and market trends. I came across Yoasobi, because I pay attention to Japanese charts, as rock tends to still chart high consistently and they have been arguably the biggest act in Japan to break out in the last two or three years. I highly recommend you check out some of their other material, while I like this song, its not very representative of their core sound. Which tends to be technical. Ayase who writes all the instrumentals is a post-hardcore guitarist/vocalist and it shows in their concept even though they write pure pop.
Yoasobi is amazing!
Hello! I am Japanese, living in Tokyo. Thank you for your video.
YOASOBI is insanely talented and loved in Japan and now all over the world and I appreciate that they are getting accepted worldwide.
Others in the comment section have mentioned but this lyrics are heavily inspired by Oshi no Ko and having to watch the anime makes you appreciate this song much more knowing the story. Highly recommend that anime! So many twists and turns in the first episode.
I would like to suggest Ado (I see other folks recommending her to you). She doesn’t show her face but she’s 20 and is a crazy talented singer.
Her MVs are always animated and last year, she sang songs for ONE PIECE movie, Film RED and the songs are awesome.
Everything about this song is just so perfect
4:42 “Ah yato ieta korewa zetai uso janai aishteiru” - Ai’s last words to Aqua and Ruby -> “Finally I said it, this time it definitely wasn’t a lie, I love you” 🥲
うさぎ＝アイドル
それを離して自分の子に
「愛してる」
と言えた星野（star）アイ（愛 I eye）
涙がとまらない！
Do yourself a favor and check out the Tokyo live version here on YT, the crowd is insane. I would also say that JPop generally has had more complex song forms that say here in the US. Jpop also encorporates US pop clichés into its being.
This song is telling a story. The shifts represent the front and back, or public and private parts of the idol character Ai's life and by extension the entertainment industry.
This group is known for basically telling stories through songs and if Ikuta Lilas' amazing voice doesn't capture your interest, Ayase's composition work will.
It isn't a traditional J-pop song, at least, not by sound anyway. It is unique in its use of different sounds. Every now and again anisongs come out with something that has this sort of unique feel. IIRC this is trying to emulate idol music trends in Japan but with a few twists and the traditional anisong flair. This song isn't intended as a dance beat. Anisongs do tend to have shifting beats like this but most run of the mill shows have somewhat traditional anisong-like feels to them. There are definitely other interesting ones out there. I recommend looking for YOASOBI's other anisongs. They have quite a few.
I wonder if you might like something like fusq. Totally different genre but also interesting.
I like that the last words of the op are the same as ai's last words
I think this song does a good job of using the typical "idol" music format which is mostly present in the chores (along with the chanting in the crowd to simulate the audience cheering in sync which is a common activity at idol shows). Oshi no Ko is based around the idol industry and idol music can be considered more "vanilla" sonically. I think it was very important for YOASOBI to have the music switch to help convey the themes in the story and the relationships between characters and their circumstances. Glad you enjoyed it!
日本にアニメがあって本当によかった😊
Yoasobi is just a genius
Oshi no ko! is definetly my favourite anime this season
Good music is good music no matter what genre
ナイスリアクション！
J-pop聴いたことないならヨルシカ聴いて欲しいな…素晴らしいアーティストなので！
Nice reaction!
If you haven't listened to J-pop, I want you to listen to “Yorushika”!
They are wonderful artist!
Listen more about yoasobi's song, their arrangement sounds really creative for me.
Another jpop artist i recommend is kenshi yonezu.
Bro, watch the anime for this. Oshi No Ko literally trampled on Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood which is almost sacrilegious considering it only took 1 ep, but it's literally official now 😂😂
Greatest of All Anime they say.
A reaction has been filmed and I'll be posting it soon!
Thank you for explaining Yoasobi! I recommend other songs of Yoasobi, Yorushika, zutomayo, and also Ado! Their songs are so catchy
J−popとK−popは成り立ちが違う。前者は60年代のポール・アンカやベンチャーズ、サイモンとガーファンクル、等のメロディ重視の音楽の影響を受けているが、後者は80年代のM・Jやマドンナ等ダンスミュージックの影響を受けている。韓国が80年代まで軍事政権下にあった事に由来する。音楽評論家の誰かが言ってた事のコピーだけど。
My favorite Yoasobi song is Tracing the Dream.
Also check out Whiteflame they have great songs
Randomly popped on my YT homepage. For anyone wondering if this is how Jpop is usually like the guy in the video, no this is not the usual Jpop song. This is from someone who listens almost only to Jpop.
Should check out Kenshi younezu. The man who occupied half top 100 Japanese songs chart damnnn. The GOD!!
the very song is an important part of this anime's plot itself, not just a soundtrack
Try listening to Inferno by Mrs Green Apple (from Fireforce). I loved that OP and now love Mrs Green Apple.
i hope u can find about this anime story.It's absolutly insanee and this song did a great job conveying the heroine's story
Another great and recent Song by Yoasobi is the Gundam - Witch from Mercury OP:
祝福 [Shukufuku] (tl:The Blessing)
I really like this Song but they have a lot of great ones!
You should check out Zutomayo, an amazing J rock band. Byoushin Wo Kamu is a great song, especially the First Take version!
They are just SO GREAT!
''aishiteru''........ i'm crying.
The first part hit hard. I totally didn't see that coming
Now its time to listen to racing into the night from YOASOBI again
“Racing in the Night” is my favorite song by them! They make songs specifically for anime OP’s and Endings (for example: ending for “Beaststars” and a ton of others!)
I’m looking at his channel after this song and it looks like it got him into jpop 😂😂😂
Maybe. 😆
if you want another fun jpop song to listen to, try Odo by Ado 👍
i know someone has mentioned Ado here already, but Odo is one of her most popular songs, since the composers and producers involved basically came together to form a temporary super band, and because she’s extremely self-disciplined and has polished her existing talent and vocal skills into something AMAZING
I am a metalhead and got hooked by the song though the genres is not my main
In this case it's not that the Yoasobi video is "anime themed" it that this song(or a 90 second edit of this song to be precise) is the opening theme for an anime, and sung from the point of view of a character in that show, so they made an extended version of that anime's opening for the full song.
Reol and Eve are also great jpop singers..
To everyone who watched the op strongly suggest to watch the anime or read the manga. Both of them are really sweet so i recommend it to everyone here.😊😁😃
Listen to Dead in the brain by RetBear the intro to the anime The Black Summoner. Lisa is awesome. MindaRyn is amazing. Also listen to Eir Aoi Hello Hello Hello
This song hits harder with english captions
Yoasobi is kind of like the new LiSA of anime music openings. They are able to be very versatile with their music.
that little part when Ai jump and embrace Aqua and Ruby literally destroy me every time i watch it😭
After hearing the English version of this song, it becomes even more enjoyable honestly
if you liked j-pop then you should check out eve he is a really good japanese soloist and his songs are all S tier.
His voice is just godly and he is a music genius
Tbh what I think about why J-pop suddenly appears to have its complexity arisen is that there was a small "pop music" community yet apart from pop culture.
It's like indie music community but most of them are producers.
The musicians there grind their own stuffs without worrying if it is liked generally.
Most of those artists are somehow too stylistic to the pop culture
Nevertheless, this community grows and finally blend into pop culture in Japan.
These artists starts to restrain their unique style.
So, Ayase also comes from this great place and did a great contribution into bringing these beautiful songs to the public audience.
I'd say that YOASOBI is top tier in terms of popularity
But for musicality, I mean the variety of elments you seek for, there're still plenty of them can do.
(e.g. King Gnu, Yonezu Kenshi, Vaundy, hitorie, Ai Higuchi, Inoue Taku, Ado, Yorushika, Eve, Wednesday Campanella...
I've just seen the j-pop rank to find some that I'm familiar with)
And the funny thing is that some would call this templating.
They'd think this be like packing things that the audience would like and integrate them
which we already feel like super amazing🤣
Everything is insanely good in this anime
in the j pop there are so much "high tension" or "cherrying up" music so far so good, but whit other genres are more meh, but this is like better than normal bands in his genre
You should look more into J-pop
They have lots of rocks songs too
J-rock I suppose?
Banger
if you are up for instrumentation, i would love to recommend GFRIEND rough, time for the moon night, sunrise, Crossroads and DreamCatcher Deja Vu, Fly high and boca!
I think this opening really suits episode 1 which is a prologue 😅😅
I recommend eve if you liked this! Eve's songs have deep meanings and they are awesome. They are a little bit more closer to rock i think bet is pop..?
The songs i recommended to you are dramaturgy and as you like it. These are probably his most famous songs!
Great first choice dude!😭😭😭
The song is actually all about episode 1 of "Oshi no ko." I'm surprised that the lyrics cover the thorough story.
Actually there is something more than just the episode 1 in the lyrics. If you know Japanese, it covers the story of "45510" by aka akasaka which features the perspective of another member of B-komachi. They are hugely related and some lyrics are copied from the light novel word to word. I got goosebumps when listening after reading "45510".
If you wanna try more J-pop then Continue viewing Yoasobi. A recent popular one by Yoasobi (other than this) is called Running Into The Night. May or may not be your cup of tea.
INCREIBLE
fellow human succumbed to weeps world
If you really wanna hear more of YOASOBI you should try Monster, and Racing Into the Night! Both certified bangers
Maybe he should also listen to the English version also done by the original people.
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It is good that numerous subtitles are supported, although it takes away from the content of the video!
The music is very god
Metalheads will always like J-pop, it just takes enough time.