Beat Laments The World

A metal-infused take on Asian music & other stuff

Hey there. This isn’t a real post, not yet my full comeback!

Maimithighs!

I made this Maimi gif this weekend and got amazing response, people seemed to love it. So hey, I thought I’d post it here to maximize the amount of people seeing it. While I’m at it, I’ll post all the other H!P gifs I’ve made so far. I think I’ve only posted like two of them before.

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I’m not going to make a new post just to say this, so I’ll only mention it briefly here: you can totally count me in on the Resonant Blue fanclub. One bitchin’ song, that one. At first I wasn’t sure about it, but it has already grown on me immensely and I’m quite enjoying it. This is a relief after what were, in my opinion, some very disappointing releases like LALALA Shiawase no Uta or the full-length albums by Ongaku Gatas and Buono!, which, by the way, everyone but seems to be loving. Well, at least the “new” Canaria Club single was awesome. Not really new since it came out almost two months ago, but I only managed to acquire it some time ago. One of the more interesting Tsunku compositions in a while, go check that one out. I’m loving those analog synths…

Anyways, after a small break it’s time to return to the ranking craziness. This one was hard to do, because if there is one thing H!P is truly specialized in, it’s the carefree and sickeningly happy/cheery songs. You know you’re in for a hard time of ranking when you’re left with 40 songs you feel are the absolute happiest and you need to get rid of 35 more. Oh well…

First off, I want to give a honorary mention to Souda! We’re ALIVE. While it is mostly one of their more rocking songs, I have to say that the chorus here might be some of their happiest sounding things they ever released. Really, go listen to it. But here’s the actual top 5:

5th: Athena & Robikerottsu – Shouri no BIG WAVE!!!: It was only just as I was finishing this post that I realized this song had to be included. Originally this spot was going to go to Minimoni (either Minimoni Hinamatsuri! or Minimoni Telephone! RIN RIN RIN) and I kind of feel bad for doing a list like this without having them included… but what can you do? But, at least Athena & Robikerottsu are (were?) like the new Minimoni anyways so it should be alright.

But really, even setting aside the cheery composition and overall positive theme, how could any song not make it on this list if it starts with such cheery words spoken by Risa: “Hi, we are LOVE GIRLS! Let’s catch a dream with us. Don’t give up! Are you ready? OK? Let’s go!” Or how about these lyrics of inspiration: ”every day, have fun, wonderful life!” Such blasphemy just will not happen, not on my blog! Ah man, forget about the music, wonderfully poetic lyrics like these are the real reason I listen to girly j-pop. This shit just wouldn’t fly in a Burzum song I reckon. At least I can’t really picture Varg Vikernes using his trademark black metal vocals to scream out a horrifying, tortured “happy day, good boy, charming girl, go, yeah, 3 2 1 go, okey-dokey, yeah!” Maybe on the next album…

Oh, and then there’s this thing Mittsi does in the PV… I’m often torn between thinking it’s the cutest thing ever or absolutely despising it and thinking it is the single most annoying hand movement ever. Sometimes when I see this, I feel a deep urge to murder people.

I’m not kidding.

STOP FUCKING DOING THAT

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Alright, I’ll just do this now even though Koharu‘s new album hasn’t been released yet. Let’s hope it won’t have anything awesome enough that could’ve made it to this list.
I’m just gonna skip all the obligatory “this was so hard to do I almost killed myself blah blah blah” stuff since you already know, and start right off with the track at the 15th place. However, before I do, I’d just like to share this screencap of Sayumi with you that I found over at Your Opinion Doesn’t Count. Why? Because it, uh, motivated me to keep writing this list; maybe it’ll motivate you to read it, too? Hell, it might even be fake for all I know, but I’d like to stay under the belief that it isn’t.

Alright, after clicking that and taking a close look, get some tissues for that nosebleed of yours (or for any other needs dealing with other bodily fluids) and I’ll get started.

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