<< Big surprise! Holy shit! >>
A lot of things are happening in East Asia. I have so many things to
share with you.
But today, unlike usual, I decided to share
with you a different theme.
About a couple days ago, I was
internet-surfing in the middle of night as usual and was watching Japanese Pop
music in 80s on YouTube.
Unlike China and South Korea, Japan has
been welcoming Western culture (especially American culture) since old time so
that many famous western musicians such as Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd,
Led Zeppelin have been visiting Japan for concerts since old time but none of
them ever visited South Korea before even China, Rolling Stones didn’t visit
until recently.
That’s how Japanese Pop music was developed
strongly being influenced by western music and culture so that the history of J
POP is very long.
You might know K-POP (Korean music) but it was
all 100% Japanese made. Korea had no POP music culture until recently.
All western cultures (music, movies) had
been blocked in South Korea until around year 2,000. Only recently Japanese
music industry began supplying Japanese music to South Korea and Korea kept
buying J-POP and began to sell them under the name K-POP. Even today, Koreans
can’t make pop music so they have to rely on Japanese music composers.
Anyway, back in 80s, there were great
western musicians such as Guns’n Roses, Metallica, Bon Jovi, Skid Row, Motley
Crue, Aero Smith, Def Leppard, KISS, U2, etc., Japan always loved Rock music
but also loved American Oldies.
This is a list of American Oldies most of
Japanese people above the age 40s know.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoHC2HZlfUE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoHC2HZlfUE
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Chubby Checker – “Let's Twist Again”
(35:00) This is very famous oldies in
Japan.
Although when I listen to American Oldies,
it always reminds me of the big hit movie “Christine”. Hahaha
Now, I’ll show you an interesting music
group which was famous in Japan during 80’s and 90’s.
See the attached picture.
This music group was called “Rats &
Star” in the beginning, then they changed their name to “Chanel’s” later.
You can see their faces were painted in
black.
I was still an early teen during 80s
watching this music group on TV. And none of people gave damn about why they
put on black facial cream although a lot of people including myself thought it
was strange. Nobody thought that they had anything to do with Black musicians. But
I know now they had an intention mimicking Black musicians. It was in a good
way Black musicians were respected by many Japanese musicians when they compose
their music.
Chuck Berry was a favored famous musician
in Japan in the old days too. But nobody had connection between Black musicians
and Chanel’s in Japan.
It was just like rock music band “KISS” in
the US. They put on make-up of White cream and paints but people would accept
it without second thought, right? Just
like that, Japanese people thought that it was strange make-up but it might be
the way they wanted to present themselves.
However, decades later when the internet
became available, I found out that they were dressing up like “Brothers (Black
musicians)” and some of their music were songs from Black musicians of the US.
Click the link below and watch the actual
music they sang in 80’s.
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SHAMA LAMA DING-DONG by Chanel's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4XPKmc5f3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4XPKmc5f3E
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The original music was below.
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Otis Day And The Knights - Shama Lama Ding
Dong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqVEEMmPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqVEEMmPk
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Most of people in Japan knew the original
song was from American oldies.
But people in Japan loved the rhythm and
song.
Now it became an era of internet when mass
of information is available with only one click away.
It’s so fascinating for me now to find out
that the original music, which once I fell in love with, turned out to be from a
different country. I would never find that out if there wasn’t internet
available today.
So I have been checking the original songs
of big hit J POP music on the internet lately. And just recently I came across a big surprise when I found out the big hit music in 80s, which I
thought was 100% original American song, turned out to be from a whole different
thing!
Click the link below and listen to the
music. This was a big hit song from 80s in Japan.
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Song “Kiss on my eyes” by Venus
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The music group dressed-up like from American
classic movie “Grease”.
Compare the dresses of “Kiss on my eyes” to
the famous music from Grease.
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From movie “Grease”- You're the one that I
want
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See? Quite resembling dress-up style,
right?
So I have been naturally presuming the song
“Kiss on my eyes” was originally from American oldies.
The other day, I checked it on Wikipedia on
the internet, and it turned out to be the original song was from the famous
classic music of German genius song composer “Beethoven”! Holy shit! Hahaha!
Click the link below and listen to the
original song.
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It does
resembling if you listen to it carefully. Hahaha.
I just couldn’t stop
laughing at how well Japanese music composer arranged the classic music into
American like pop music. Hahaha. It’s so funny.
That’s about it
for today! Have a nice laugh! Hahaha.
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