dimanche 12 Fév 2012, 5h47m

Sometimes I wonder what I have missed… having been away from jpop for so long

I've found amny of my loves have either toned odwn or retired because they lost popularity or like in hayami's case, retired. It does quite sadden me but also in a weird way brightened me that I haven't missed as much.

There is one singer that this is not the case however. Tonight I was listening to more Aya Matsuura on youtube. Aya has always been a strange love to me because at the time I listened to her a lot and she was super popular on audioscrobbler, I had all her music but I couldnt quite connect with her on the same level others had on how awesome she was. I could tell she had a voice above the hello morning usual but her songs were still very boppy and kiddish… not to be insulting but I always felt that to be truly amazing and to be able to smash the jpop scene she would have to go above and beyond that. so I listened to her, I had my favourites, but there weren't many songs that I would reach for the back button to replay over again and again. The standouts were not many. Even now on ayas last.fm page her overall top 4 songs are not my favourites. Mine start with 100回のKISS and Watarashe Bashi.

Well that quickly changed when in January this year I went looking her up on youtube and I found hits after hit. It was like a mine and I had struck oil! Some were songs I knew well and loved from ages ago, some were the meh boppy ones but the ones that stood out to me where the ones that I immediately took a strong liking to but I didnt recall hearing before.

I also found they all came from the same one album:

Omoi Afurete - 2009-01-21

The title song - Omoi Afurete and Falling are up there with 100回のKISS and Watarashe Bashi. and many of the others are just great. Overall it makes an album that I really enjoy listening to from start to end and there aren't too many albums I find I can do that with.

^_^