Tube - TUBEst
Summery early 90s boypop and sooooo goooood. <3 I do love Being's stuff. <3
Favourites: Season In The Sun, Because I Love You, Dance With You, Beach Time, Summer City, Be My Venus

Tata Young - The Very Best Of Tata Young (Thai)
This is from several years before Sexy Naughty Bitchy and is nothing like that song, which makes me think that her change in image happened after she discovered what "tatas" are. :P

Anyway, it's a nice album. It's mostly ballads (my favourite being Kon Derm Jai Derm, which is freaking beautiful, but I love Ruk Tur Dai Mai and Proong Nee Mai Sai too) with the occasional pop or pop-R&B song (Oo Oui, Ma Laeng and Sak Ga Nid. I like Oo Oui the best, but they're all awesome.)

Shibasaki Kou - Single Best
I love this album so very much. It's mostly strong ballads (my favourite kind of ballad), with the occasional softer ballad and faster track. I favourited pretty much everything that I hadn't already heard. Seriously. Such a great album.

And now onto the singles!

First, Rihanna is HOTT. <3

Janet Jackson - Feedback
Promotional song for Cycle 10 of ANTM; not my favourite of the ANTM songs so far. Fairly standard R&B stuff.

Eurovision songs!

#6 Urban Symphony - Rändajad (Estonia) (video)
Pretty, dramatic song. It's in Estonian, which makes it interesting to listen to. This video has an English translation of the lyrics.

#8 Patricia Kaas - Et s'il fallait le faire (France) (video)
Ballad, in French. Eh, it's OK.

#9 Regina - Bistra Voda (Bosnia and Montenegro) (video)
My first thought was "I like the majestic Eurovision music at the beginning better than the actual song" and my second was "Those are men?!" (although I ripped the sound files from the videos, I didn't watch the videos until I'd listened to the songs a few times.) Both thoughts stand, but I've gotten to like this song quite a bit. It's in Bosnian, and quite pretty.

#10 Inga & Anush - Jan Jan (Armenia) (video)
It's official - Armenian artists will forever make me think of StephaniEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. This is my favourite song of this week's batch, though. So catchy, and I love their traditional(?) outfits and seizure monster flashes of colour. The singers are pretty good looking too. :D


Play - I Must Not Chase The Boys
I basically downloaded this song because of this parody. :P The song itself is fairly catchy, but it didn't go the distance for me - I got tired of it after a few plays.

Yui - Again
First, I may have mentioned this before, but she purdy.

Of the songs on there, I like the B-side, Sea, the best. It's a soft ballad with a bit of power in the chorus and it's sooooo pretty. <3 The title track's pretty good too - one of her rocky songs.

Guardian 4 - Omakase Guardian
Are they a Hello Project subgroup thing? They sound like one, and their name sounds like one. Wikipedia! Ding! Yay!

If you don't know what I just referenced, you need to watch this video NOW.

Anyway, typical catchy H!P stuff.

Zard feat. Kuraki Mai - Sunao Ni Ienakute
Eeeee, Zard sounds exactly the same as before! Very pretty, very 80s-sounding songs. I didn't pay much attention to them this week (you'll see why in a minute) but now I want to keep playing them.

Kishimoto Hayami - See You Darling
R&B-tinged pop. I really, really like the first B-side of this, Epilogue. The other two songs aren't brilliant, but they're not bad.

Ayuse Kozue - Apple Pie
I downloaded this thinking it'd be like One and Cry Baby (the latter of which I loved to death) but it wasn't much like that at all. These are faster songs, and while the title track and second B-side are OK (especially the second B-side, which again, I didn't notice much for reasons that will become clear in a moment), they're nothing on Cry Baby. The first B-side didn't do it for me at all.

Tommy February 6 - Everyday At The Bus Stop
I'm not normally a fan of Tommy February 6, but I knew I had to download it after someone showed me the video. Sweet Valley High crack dreams!

Sawajiri Erika - Free
Most of her stuff doesn't do it for me at all, but this song was pretty good - pop with a bit of rock.

Orange Range - Ikenai Taiyou
Pop-rock with a summery sound, pretty good.

Jyukai - Ai No Hoshi
Girl pop-rock, pretty good. Again, didn't get as much play as usual for a reason that I am going to tell you...

NOW.

MIDDLE EASTERN MUSIC OMG
OH MY GOD THIS STUFF IS SO GOOD. Seriously, I don't know what it is about Indian and Middle Eastern music, but I really love the kind of melodies those songs have. The person I got it from (via this post in jpop_uploads) uploaded a big compilation album for me after I said I liked this mix, so expect more of this soon.

Also, those who haven't already, check out this video. It's freaking hilarious.