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★★★★☆ it’s 2007, you’re scrubbing the music blog to find some new music because your friends (url and irl) are tired of listening to your regular melancholic music. So you discover after hours of searching, melancholia jp. And you‘ve been watching Naruto and you recognized the AKFG vibes and you just start listening and feel nostalgic for a past that wasn’t yours.
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makes me feel like i'm 12 again and my life is a movie. pure warm bliss. my window is open on a summer evening and i'm waiting for my friends to come over.
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Mar 5, 2025
We had a work trip to Japan in November (already feel so grateful I get to experience Japan in this way). After a week of intense workshops in the day and connecting with people and exploring the city after hours, I was finally left alone to wander on my own for an evening. After queueing up for 20 minutes for the most delicious spicy wagyu ramen that I randomly passed by, and happily devouring it, I wandered into a vinyl/ listening bar with a long-ish queue of locals.
Since I was alone and didn’t mind sitting at the bar (love sitting at the bar and just watching the bartenders in their “flow state” usually in time to music), I was seated almost immediately. While I ordered a delicious and most rewarding Manhattan, this song played and in those few minutes, I felt waves of joy, gratitude and calm.… almost like everything felt right and I was meant to be in this moment and just be.
Then I leaned over and saw the cutest/ most kawaii album art! This song is probably exhausted with how much it’s been running in my rotation but it always takes me back to that crisp, cold evening in a foreign country, blissfully alone but not lonely (rare for me to feel this as an incorrigible extrovert constantly seeking connection).
I have no idea what the song translates to from Japanese and I actually don’t want to know, in case it ruins the memory for me or ends up being a sad song. But if you understand Japanese, and know this is a happy or hopeful song, let me know! And if you know of similar songs, drop them… would love to discover more!
Jan 14, 2025
complete non-sequitur, as is everything that come out of my mouth at this point, but i came across this song the other day and it fits the very specific niche of like, nostalgic-sounding vocaloid (it sounds very specifically like it was produced in the earlyish 2010s - i don't know how to describe it exactly but if you've listened to a little bit of the genre you might know what i mean?) but also kinda wistful jazz? i know voice synthesiser's aren't everyone's cup of tea but if it sounds like it might be up your alley, would recommend checking this song out! ₊˚⊹♫
Jan 15, 2025
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