Sophisticated Fun: POP music on CRACK.

So, I've lived in Japan for 11 weeks now and I'm still not sure what they consider music here. My taste in music is less than exciting by any means. My dad thinks it's shit. Dad, it's not shit. It's called rap. Japanese rap is...I can't even explain it. It's exactly what you think it is. It's like white people trying to rap, but with a lisp. It is quite entertaining, but not vulgar enough for my taste. Japanese songs in general are funny. Most of them have some English words or phrases randomly place throughout the lyrics, but they're also mispronounced, so it's that much funnier. Words like "yeah" and "baby" are often found in the lyrics, but I've made a small list of some of my favorites thus far:

"fighting for my dreams"
"we are the gifted one"
"hit it off like this, oh baby"
"it's just your biggest fan"
"I'm genie for you boy. I'm genie for your wish. I'm genie for your dream. I'm genie for your world."
"I got my girls and sunshine."

TV channels are limited, but there are a lot of music variety specials where they feature certain pop bands and I've taken note of a few bands and their lyrics that I find interesting. So, turn up the volume on your speakers and thank the world for YouTube, so I can share these songs with you...

There is a boy band called Funky Monkey Babys. They sing or rap (I'm not 100% sure) about 桜 (sah-ku-rah), or cherry blossoms. Other boy bands have names like EXILE or BEAST or SMAP.

Funky Monkey Babys

EXILE is a 14 member band. Check out these sweet moves...and the great English phrases...

Girl groups are what I like to call POP MUSIC ON CRACK (hence the title of this post). These girls have voices as high pitched as their skirts and they're all the cutest little girls you've ever seen.

A very popular girl group is AKB48. Apparently this group has like 48 members divided into three different groups, A, K, and B. I don't understand it, this is just the information I was given. Let's take a look at this video that resembles child's porn.

I first heard this next song when I went karaoke-ing with my coworker and his girlfriend. It's catchy, I'll give it that, but when it's over you'll either be scratching your head in confusion or your balls.