paradoxal

Is it heroin? Or cocaine? No one knows, but once you've got a taste of it, you can't live without it.
 
It's 9 days until the release date, and probably 2-3 days more until it gets leaked. That makes over 10 bangmeless days, over 10 days of torturing anxiety and thrilling excitement.
 
So gather up all the addicts, and let your feelings out.
 
Did you miss your father's birthday because you couldn't stop listening to the PV spot?
Is your BF going to break up with you unless you stop listening to the PV spot?
Did your cat die of hunger because you simply forgot to feed it?
 
We are not here to judge you. We are here to support you.
 

Time to revive this thread!

I haven't recently had any major purchases, but I did buy Kanger's Aerotank v2 during the summer. 
 
Best. Purchase. Ever.
 

 
And my pyrex tank is still intact even though I've dropped it like a thousand times

Wow, that preview sounds fantastic! Though that mango is way too weird for my taste XD I'm pretty sure this was a bet, like
"You don't dare to make a single about mangos!"
"Oh yeah?? Just wait and I'll show you!"

Hahaha, my parents were struggling trying to find me a name, and then my dad was randomly listening to this song and they named me after it
 

 
If you could decide, that ONE thing in your life would be forever free, what would it be? (eg. clothes, food, etc...)

Wow, that preview sounds fantastic! Though that mango is way too weird for my taste XD I'm pretty sure this was a bet, like
"You don't dare to make a single about mangos!"
"Oh yeah?? Just wait and I'll show you!"

Wow, that preview sounds fantastic! Though that mango is way too weird for my taste XD I'm pretty sure this was a bet, like
"You don't dare to make a single about mangos!"
"Oh yeah?? Just wait and I'll show you!"

It doesn't fix the situation, but being willing to apologize does mean that you realized you were wrong, that you learned from your actions and that you will not be doing it again. I'm pretty sure many people on the forum would appreciate it if you had apologized.
 
Also, if you're going to post translations that aren't yours, always credit the original translator. It doesn't matter if they're your friend, these people worked hard on their translations so it's fair they at least get some credit if their work gets posted here. Their online name or a link to their work/blog/website is more than enough.

Pulling a Demon Android :
Doing the exact same thing he did on this forum, claiming your name on something that isn't your's and throwing it into the open as well as posting old shitty rip's of old band's without posting the format, and or date that it was released along with the absence of cover art for what old shitty rip was posted.

I'm not sure if you translated this by yourself or if your friend did this translation, but it's awkwardly close to what Google Translate has to say about the lyrics.
 
 

I have always loved playing Singstar with my friends and you can't even imagine my happiness when I discovered Ultrastar. One think that has always been lacking with Singstar is the lack of songs I truly like and the fact that I don't have a PS2 in my own place. Now that I've discovered Ultrastar I have spent hours at a time playing it and my voice is sore all the time...
 
My own average score is atm 8748 (trying to make it OVER NINE THOUSAND) and my best songs are:
 
1. MBLAQ - Oh Yeah (9729, Easy)
2. G-Dragon - COUP D'ETAT (9520, Easy)
3. girugamesh - Break down (9510, Easy)
4. X Japan - I.V. (9330, Easy)
5. girugamesh - Owari to mirai (9230, Easy)
 
 
For beginners:
Ultrastar Deluxe Official page
Getting started
 
Songs:
USDB Animux (some J-pop, K-pop and VK songs, a lot of others. Requires registration to be able to download. Only .txt files.)
Ultrastar Asian Songs (A lot of j-pop and k-pop songs, some VK songs as well. Requires registration & approval of membership to be able to download. Full files with music and video.)
 
 
Do you enjoy playing Singstar/Ultrastar?
Have you made some songs yourself?
What are your best songs and what's your average score? (can be found in the stats tab in Ultrastar)
What's your preferable mode (easy/medium/hard)?

Trigger of lust  Tactics of love and hate  And tried to remove the safety of breast
 
 Google Translate, I love you <3

Trigger of lust  Tactics of love and hate  And tried to remove the safety of breast
 
 Google Translate, I love you <3

Maybe my point didn't come across as clearly as I would like.
Yes, of course there's the entire cluster of issues with subjectivity/taste/personal preferences. I'm quite the relativist with respect to that (you can read my previous exchange with relentless on "progress" on pg.18), and unlike some others I don't think there's objectively good music. So you can rest assured that I will never try to impose my own opinions on others - I'd rather spend my time focusing on what I enjoy instead of trying to change other people's mind lol.
Anyway I was trying to make 2 other points:
1) To say that x is bad because x sounds the same as everything else is an incredibly lazy way of dismissing something. Firstly it's almost always grossly inaccurate (like what Biopanda has said), so there's that. What irks me more is that people who say that pretend they don't have a kind of sound they like and return to, which they usually have. So that's a strange assertion at best and pure hypocrisy at worst; because as much as genres are exceedingly slippery, people do tend to identify with them. I haven't met anyone who, when asked what they listen to, responds by answering "Oh, I only listen to music that is different". And if being different is not so important after all, why say that x cannot be good music because it is not different? In short: I'm not saying that original music cannot be good (which is a broad-brush sweeping generalization); I'm saying music need not be original to be good (which is an opinion that gives people the autonomy to identify what is good for them).
2) My other beef was that the phrase "pop rock" (and other variants e.g. oshare, neo-vk, what have you) is an empty concept usually mobilized and abused by people who don't listen to - and cannot specify - what this elusive genre is supposed to mean. I'm reminded of how the term "otaku" is used by the larger part of the Japanese society to "label" and derogatorily stereotype certain groups of people as social rejects, when the fact of the matter is these people whom they call otaku are mostly well-adjusted individuals who happen to have an "unfashionable" hobby and who don't identify with the term itself in the first place. It's the same problem with pop rock. Whenever a term like this is stretched from wall to wall to mean everything you want it to mean, then it becomes a useless concept to say anything meaningful with. Except as a shorthand for "all these are stuff I don't like and so why is it that others like them?!".

I did not give them permission to recap my personal dramas, calling a lawyer asap

Here are the kanji lyrics of the BANG ME single.
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS PLEASE <3
 
 
BANG ME
words:コウ music:コウ & eiki
 
Failure will not be excused.
Surely, I will be sniper.
逃す手はないわ It is change that there once.
Just wanna risky gamble 先の見えないトリガー
Tonight, I bring you down.
 
欲情のTrigger
愛憎のTactics
胸のセイフティ 外してみたの
 
You are sniper.
Shoot my heart with revolver.
渦巻く感情から
Desire bullet.
Just like a scarlet.
駆け引き 戻れなくて
 
Boy,
Check! check! check! check me now!! yeah
what do you think about me...?
Boy,
Bang! bang! bang! bang me now!! yeah
So want you baby,
let me knock you down.
 
貴方、私
誰よりも疾く 撃ち抜いて
 
つかめなくて 届かなくて
貴方のこと 想い 泣いてた
泣き崩れた顔 惨めな私 鏡に映る
 
言葉よりも 笑顔よりも "今ここで抱きしめてよ..."
強がるフリ もう演じきれない
 
瞬間のTrick art
恋愛のFormula
目まぐるしく 翻弄してゆく
 
You are sniper.
Shoot my heart with revolver.
何度決意しても
Desire bullet.
Just like a scarlet.
貴方の温もり また求めて
 
b.a.n.g. check me now yeah baby
この胸に隠した弾丸
この恋は譲れない簡単に
突然のshootin'
連れ出して欲しいすぐに
見た事ない世界教えて
知らない私 目覚めさせて
 
Boy,
Check! check! check! check me now!! yeah
What do you think about me...?
Boy,
Bang! bang! bang! bang me now!! yeah
So want you baby,
let me knock you down.
 
もう逃げない
私の全部 見せてあげる
 
愛する事 教えてくれた
それなら忘れ方も教えて
誰かにとられるくらいなら
全て伝えたくて
 
どこにいるの、誰といるの
声にならない声で叫んだ
もう隠さない 私を見て
 
つかめなくて 届かなくて
貴方のこと 想い 泣いてた
泣き崩れた顔 惨めな私 鏡に映る
 
言葉よりも 笑顔よりも 『今ここで抱きしめてよ!』
この弾倉-胸-に込めた 弾丸-想い-は一つだけ
必ず 貴方を撃ち抜いてみせるわ
 
 
ザ リーク
words:コウ music:Nao & コウ
 
踊り疲れた真夜中 光る
着信 断れない案件
無視出来ず しぶしぶ 出す返事
きらびやかな席へ繰り出せば
 
飾り立てた 笑顔 キツいパルファム 鼻を刺す
それと隣のメンズ 鼻の下伸びてるけど?
 
ねぇ シタい...
耳障り ハスキーな声
あぁ イタイ...
もっとマシな服 着てこいよ
ねぇ 見たい...
こんな会話、しに来たんじゃない
ねぇ 甘い...
甘いのはあんたの価値観 oh yeah.
 
貰い物のシルバー身に付けて
苦労話 語ってんじゃねぇ
腰に手回し ご満悦に
大先輩の前じゃ 酔えもしないくせに
 
白む空 結局 同士と 夢語って
こんなもんだろうと 拳合わせ また鞭打つ
 
ねぇ シタい...
誘い言葉 耳貸す気もねぇ
あぁ イタイ...
鏡見て出直して来いよ
ねぇ 見たい...
こんな会話、しに来たんじゃない
ねぇ 甘い...
甘いのは皆無の危機感 oh yeah...
 
ねぇ シタい...
耳障り ハスキーな声
あぁ イタイ...
もっとマシな服 着てこいよ
ねぇ 見たい...
こんな会話、しに来たんじゃない
ねぇ 甘い...
甘いのはあんたの価値観 oh yeah...
 
ねぇ 見たい...
こんな会話、しに来たんじゃない
ねぇ 甘い...
甘いのは皆無の危機感 oh yeah...

^ That's simply a case of bad grammar, at least for Japanese releases.

Amen. I couldn't have said it better, I truly agree with you. What if people just stopped dismissing whole genres because huehueheuheuhue-they-all-sound-the-same.

omg where did you find arche samples????
 
It's really easy to dismiss things you don't like as one conglomerate blob. Rather than hearing differences, all people tend to hear are more things they don't care for, which could be why it all sounds similar to them. With that being said, you do make a good point that pretty much any corner or niche within music sounds like they belong together in one way or another.

Here's my unpopular opinion so feel free to disagree.

Different ≠ Good. I'm tired of hearing "so-and-so is the 1251878th pop-rock band, therefore they are shit." I need someone to explain to me - logically - how people actually arrive at the ludicrous position that being different is a necessary condition for being good. If someone likes a certain style or sound - isn't it obviously natural to continue seeking out the same sound he enjoys so that he can derive the same satisfaction from it? People who love 90s nagoya kei are unwavering fans because of its very distinctive sound which has been arguably "lost" - and hence the nostalgia for that period. Is that really hard to understand? No. While having some originality is always welcome, it is neither necessary nor sufficient (nor even the most important) criterion for enjoying the music in question.

Pop-rock tends to be unfairly tagged as "the genre where everything-sounds-the-same" although pretty much the same thing can be said of "dark/gloomy kei", "core-ish music", electro, etc. Any counter-objection that I'm over-reducing the complexity of latter "genres" can be likewise applied to pop-rock, which I believe is more diverse than what most people (especially people who despise it) assume it to be. These days everything from Royz to Xepher to AKB48 are being carelessly chucked in the amorphous and ever-extending category of "poppish music", which allegedly (and almost by definition) sound the same. I do wonder if it isn't laughingly pretentious for people to dismiss stuff they don't like by saying "pop-rock all sound the same, hence they are garbage" while remaining willfully blind to their own human impulse to seek out the same sound/style when it comes to their pet subgenres. (I'm not going to name anyone.)

It's incredibly easy to sound different. I can record 620 minutes of belting chromatic scales non-stop, or 4 seconds of farting into the microphone. Sadly that makes for neither good nor enjoyable music.

IT'S HERE OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
 

I hear 'Now we know the excuse..sniper...it's just as words. It's just a word (or world ?) that just (only?) begun...to be good. tonight I bring down' ? 
dafuq is that

IT'S HERE OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
 

IT'S HERE OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
 

IT'S HERE OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
 

...here
 
they also put up another video
 
it was their announcement at midnight