Ahhh, Oh-chan...
Apr. 23rd, 2009 14:21![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltgmarsThis, folks, is a random break from putting together the first draft of my presentation on Japanese dialects. The history of it all is actually quite interesting. I'll maybe post it later (in English, though it'll be translated from the Japanese translated from the sentences in my head in English, so who knows how that'll turn out...). Or you can read about it on Wikipedia.
So today I was listening to things on my Blackberry (because I got one (long story short, brother and I text too much so parents got a new cell phone plan and somehow getting two Blackberries was included in that, and since mother doesn't utilize phone super-functions and brother hates learning new things, I got a Blackberry), though my parents have warned me several times against accidentally breaking it because I'm that kind of person). Now, the thing about listening to something with headphones is that it goes straight to your ears (as opposed to bouncing off the other things in the room you're preoccupied with... I'm not stupid, okay, there was a point to what I was saying), so this is maybe the first time that I've really listened to a lot of songs.
"Fuyu wo Dakishimete" came up, and I played it about twenty times in a row. I wish that number were an exaggeration. It seems that for both tracks on the "Step and Go" single, Ohno gets an amazing, breathtaking, Ohnogasmic solo after the bridge. Neither of the songs I liked until I really listened and heard Ohno's solo and saw how the song fit together and that the chorus was pretty okay and the verses weren't so bad. I think something I really like about Ohno's singing, clarity and tone and all that aside, is the way he bends pitches into different pitches. It's nice to listen to, and grouped with the rest of what makes his singing so great, it's pretty damn powerful.
But yeah, give it a listen.
The clips for the video are from random concerts, and I've been inspired to have a nice little session this summer and watch all of their officially-released concerts and concert digests (Suppin, All or Nothing, How's it going?, Iza Now, ONE, AAA, AAA + in Dome, Time, AAA 2008) in one sitting. The only ones I don't actually have are Suppin (because VHS what?) and ONE (because I'd need to buy a limited-edition album for that, and that will take an anal-completist like me bad places), but God is great and He gives me downloads.
Hahaha, I'm so proud of how I spent so much money in so little time getting all of those DVDs. But they're so shiny so IT'S OKAY.
So today I was listening to things on my Blackberry (because I got one (long story short, brother and I text too much so parents got a new cell phone plan and somehow getting two Blackberries was included in that, and since mother doesn't utilize phone super-functions and brother hates learning new things, I got a Blackberry), though my parents have warned me several times against accidentally breaking it because I'm that kind of person). Now, the thing about listening to something with headphones is that it goes straight to your ears (as opposed to bouncing off the other things in the room you're preoccupied with... I'm not stupid, okay, there was a point to what I was saying), so this is maybe the first time that I've really listened to a lot of songs.
"Fuyu wo Dakishimete" came up, and I played it about twenty times in a row. I wish that number were an exaggeration. It seems that for both tracks on the "Step and Go" single, Ohno gets an amazing, breathtaking, Ohnogasmic solo after the bridge. Neither of the songs I liked until I really listened and heard Ohno's solo and saw how the song fit together and that the chorus was pretty okay and the verses weren't so bad. I think something I really like about Ohno's singing, clarity and tone and all that aside, is the way he bends pitches into different pitches. It's nice to listen to, and grouped with the rest of what makes his singing so great, it's pretty damn powerful.
But yeah, give it a listen.
The clips for the video are from random concerts, and I've been inspired to have a nice little session this summer and watch all of their officially-released concerts and concert digests (Suppin, All or Nothing, How's it going?, Iza Now, ONE, AAA, AAA + in Dome, Time, AAA 2008) in one sitting. The only ones I don't actually have are Suppin (because VHS what?) and ONE (because I'd need to buy a limited-edition album for that, and that will take an anal-completist like me bad places), but God is great and He gives me downloads.
Hahaha, I'm so proud of how I spent so much money in so little time getting all of those DVDs. But they're so shiny so IT'S OKAY.
