Is there something on Japanese scene that sounds like Gackt, but with a female vocal?
2007-06-26 19:57:55 · 6 answers · asked by amadanmath 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
I should probably say: I like that he uses a lot of real instruments: real piano, real electric guitar and drums... and not synth and drum machine, which I am hearing in most J-pop I have heard so far.
2007-06-26 20:06:45 · update #1
maybe judy and mary or tokyo jihen
well, if you like japanese music you should try to listen to Asian Kungfu Generation, they're good. and if u're new to them, check out their songs like rewrite, haruka kanata, black out, or kimi no machi made
2007-06-26 20:12:19 · answer #1 · answered by sita 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Japaneses female singers who attempt to do harder sounding music than pop struggle here. In general hard rock and rap are not well accept from women. It kinda goes against their cultural idea of how a woman should behave (quiet, cutsy, demur, weak). For example, I once played an Evanescence song for my Japanese English class. The most common comments from my students were that Amy was 'scary' and that it would have been cool if 'the singer had been a man'. The closest that a Japanese female singer comes to what you are looking for I think woul be 'Kana' (excellent instrumentation, but positively HORRENDOUS vocals) or Hitomi Yaida (who I like a whole lot better, but is more along the lines of Gwen Stephani, Alannis Morriset, Avril Lavien, etc). Anything heavier is really, really hard to find.
2007-06-27 22:19:15 · answer #2 · answered by David M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mika Nakashima - Glamorous Sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MykzzEDqDhI
Shiina Ringo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anydzFHMuAs&mode=related&search=
2007-06-27 03:07:57 · answer #3 · answered by Jim L 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Boa- has a great voice, she has sang the opening song in both Kingdom Hearts and the opening in Serial Experiments Lain.
Yoko Ishida-one of my favorite singers, shes sang opening for various animes and other songs, she has a beautiful voice.
Ayumi-she has many great songs and a lovely voice.
2007-06-27 10:25:18 · answer #4 · answered by Yokihana 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, Ayumi Hamasaki's got a great voice. But she's more pop I think. Or there's Puffy Ami Yumi. Yeah, that's all I got.
2007-06-27 03:04:06 · answer #5 · answered by Joe K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know -- but I think last.fm does a really good job of finding artists that are similar to things that I like
2007-06-27 03:00:37 · answer #6 · answered by iamageniusiamaliar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋