Meg’s List: ANNOYING SONGS TO BLAST

This list has been the result of sleep deprivation, the aftermath of two essays, and a way to make myself feel better through five days of stomach flu-like symptoms and the beginnings of a cold. Go me.

Note: Just because I find them annoying doesn’t mean that they aren’t awesome XD. In fact, I love most of these songs. XD

And yes, according to Tsuki, if you blast anything, it will be annoying.

Tsuki contributed to this!

I present to you:
Annoying songs to blast when people in your dorm/apartment/house/neighbourhood are being loud and obnoxious.

• Amuro Namie – ALARM
  “TICK TACK BABY. TICK TACK LADY.” From the filtered voice at the beginning, to the ridiculous chorus of this song, to the “words up!” line… this song is pretty annoying if you want it to be.
• Amuro Namie – Violet Sauce
  “DIP IT IN THE SAUCE. DIP IT IN THE SAUCE.” Any version, although the “Spicy” one is pretty awesome.
• Amuro Namie – WHAT A FEELING (So Remix Web Edit)
  I LOVE TO DANCE. DANCE. DANCE. Seriously, even Tsuki finds this song pretty annoying (although she loves the original XD). The repeated “Oo” bits gets really annoying after awhile. This song is just loud with a whole lot of experimental repeated lines over and over again.
• Amuro Namie – WoWa
  *waves pom poms* This song can be pretty annoying (although it amuses me — especially after watching the PV). Afterall, the chorus mainly consists of someone whistling and namie going WOO WOO WAA WAA. Tsuki and I had fun making a duet out of this once when we were walking around. Our friends thought we were weird.
• Amuro Namie – WANT ME, WANT ME
  The hilarity of blasting this song is obvious if you pay attention the lyrics. Anyways, the opening background accompaniment is kind of obnoxious. The pure repetitiveness is pretty annoying after awhile.
• BoA – 抱きしめる (Dakishimeru)
  The bass for this song is ridiculously annoying and catchy. I think Tsuki tried blasting this one once in second year when people below her were being idiots and were blasting music in the morning.
• capsule – MUZiC
  The incessant four note progression in the background can really get on your nerves, especially if you’re studying (hey, it worked on my boyfriend quite well! — although I wasn’t looking to annoy him XD)
• Hamasaki Ayumi – Bold & Delicious
  “YAYAYAYAGAGAGAGADADADADAWOWOWOWO.”
• Hirai Ken – POP STAR
  Falsetto = win. The verses aren’t that annoying, but once he gets into the falsetto… XD
• Lee Hyori – Dark Angel
  YOU. YOU. YOU.
  Honestly, anything from her Dark Angel album is pretty awesome to blast, especially since a lot of her music sounds really obnoxious.
• Lee Hyori – E.M.M.M.
  Seriously, the way Hyori does the vocals on this song is really annoying (in the verses anyways). EENIE MEENIE MIENIE MO.
• Matsuura Aya – Ne~e
  The “HYPER BUNNIES JUMPING AROUND” song. I sent this song to my friend when she was stressed out with all her assignments. It made her laugh for hours. But seriously, if you can’t handle this type of cute music, it will drive you crazy.
• Otsuka Ai – Happy Days
  Otsuka with a filtered voice. Otsuka yelling “Happy Days!” like a crazy person. Yup.
• Otsuka Ai – PEACH
  OTSUKA. PLEASE TO BE NOT SINGING LIKE THIS EVER AGAIN.
• Tamaki Nami – 大胆にいきましょう↑Heart&Soul↑ (Daitan ni Ikimashou)
  This was one of the first songs Tsuki sent to me from Tamaki. It is also one of the more amusing songs from her XD.
• Utada – Easy Breezy
  SHE’S GOT A NEW MICROPHONE. Seriously, this song is hilarious.
• WaT – Hava Rava
  This song amuses Tsuki. The way they say “Hava Rava” at the end of the chorus is pretty amusing though.

To be edited when Meg finds more songs to add, because she’s bound to forget a bunch.

This has been a pointless post by yours truly.

Predictions for 11/29 – Tsuki (with help from ORICON)

It’s that time of year again… winter! The J-music industry always seemingly likes to pick up early in the autumn to late winter, but it seems things moved a little slowly this year. That is, up until this month. What catches my attention the most is the week of 11/29 – 12/13. All these new releases going head-to-head, this is proving to be most interesting. As a part of my expected 3 week series, I will write a report and state my predictions and reasoning. Please keep in mind that these are my own predictions, whether or not they agree with NINKI is another story. They are not the official rankings for any of these three weeks. See the “Official Ranking” at the end of the report for figures and ranking order.

This is going to be more of an experiment than anything else, and if I’m not being consistent, that’s probably because exams have started. I’ll hopefully write a report as the NINKI predictions on ORICON are released.

Singles
The showdown this week seems to be the ever popular Kinki Kids vs. the NANA craze headed by Nakashima Mika. NINKI predicts that Kinki Kids will get the upperhand in that competition, with NANA starring MIKA NAKASHIMA expecting to nab the second position. Let’s look into this in a bit more detail. Kinki Kids has had every one of their singles go to No. 1 starting from their debut back in ‘97. Not only that, most of their singles tend to debut with more than 200 000 copies sold. Mika has had only one No. 1 single, that being GLAMOROUS SKY from last year’s NANA movie, and even with NANA, it only managed to sell approximately 120 000 copies in its first week. Clearly, there is no competition here. From 3-5, NINKI predicts that Yuzuoda, Ajikan and Dreams Come True will take those spots respectively. There may be possibility of movement amongst the three of them, but it’s unlikely any of them will be able to overtake the first two powerhouses.

Albums
Another interesting week for album sales. Hamasaki Ayumi, though her popularity has been dwindling in the past year slightly, she is still a strong artist and not one to be taken lightly. She is expected to take the No. 1 spot by NINKI (I agree). Sukima Switch is expected to take the second spot by NINKI, and with their growing popularity within the last year or two, it seems very likely they’ll take the spot behind Hamasaki. They have proved to be competition, but how much can they hold on their own going up against Hamasaki? That we will need to wait and see. From 3-5, NINKI predicts in this order: RIP SLYME, Hitoto Yo and Tamaki Nami. Once again, it seems the competition will be for that third spot. Both Hitoto Yo and Tamaki Nami are releasing a singles collection/best album, and we all know how popular those things can be in Japan. This is the reason why I doubt RIP SLYME will get that third spot, despite that they may have an upperhand in general single and album sales over the two ladies. Hitoto Yo is well-received and respected in the J-music community and Tamaki Nami has been known to pull the wool over the public’s eyes when it comes to album releases. Tough predictions to make here.

Official Ranking
Available 12/06

Source: ORICON STYLE

– Written by Tsuki

Most Notable Achievements (and some other surprises)

Since I have been neglecting to post anything for a while, I figured the best I can do for this week (after how many weeks?) is to provide some exciting (or not so exciting) J-pop news!

For this week on the ORICON Weekly Singles Chart, Utada Hikaru took the top spot with her latest ballad single, Be My Last (not surprisingly). She debuted at No.1 on the daily charts and remained there for the entire week. The interesting tidbit here is that, Hikki only managed to sell 80,064 copies, which is less than half of what Hamasaki Ayumi sold with her newest single, Heaven, on her first week. I wonder about that…

Of course, without a doubt, Hamasaki Ayumi nabbed the second spot once again on her third week on the charts, selling 33,101 copies of HEAVEN this week This brings her total sales up to 264,901. Hamasaki is doing excellently for someone who had to compete for the top spot on her debut week.

Newcomer Ito Yuna, or rather, REIRA starring YUNA ITO moved up from last week to the 3rd spot for this week. She finally managed to surpass her counterpart Nakashima Mika for this week and is just under Utada Hikaru on the daily charts. Ito exploded onto the Japanese music scene with ENDLESS STORY as a tie into her role as Reira in the hit movie NANA. After selling 31,579 copies this week, her sales has broken the 200,000 mark and her total is 208,841.

Otsuka Ai’s Planetarium fell to No. 4 for this week after reaching No. 1 last week. She’s still in the game after two weeks especially managing to squeeze her way into the two NANA girls with 30,882 copies sold. This brings her past the 100,000 mark and up to a total of 121,449.

After 5 weeks, Nakashima Mika’s first No. 1 single is still in the top 5 with 25,052 copies sold for this week. As NANA starring MIKA NAKASHIMA she released GLAMOROUS SKY which was the first NANA movie hit. In total she has sold 357,760 copies of this single and the future continues to look promising for Nakashima.

– Written by Tsuki