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Rick Takeuchi – Never Gonna Give You Plastic Love

In my previous post, I wrote about listening to a new genre of music, Future Funk for the last couple of years. There has been a sub-genre of Future Funk though which has had a resurgence in the last 10 years, known as City pop.

City pop is a loosely defined subset of pop music that originated in Japan in the late 1970s.
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Since the 2010s, city pop has gained an international online following as well as becoming a touchstone for the sample-based microgenres known as vaporwave and future funk.

Wikipedia

One of the more popular songs that defines the genre is Mariya Takeuchi’s – Plastic Love.

Mariya is a Japanese singer and songwriter who has been performing since 1978. Her latest studio album, Trad, released in 2014 reaching Number 1 in the Japanese Music Charts.

The 65-year-old recently re-released one of her singles, Inochi No Uta (Song of Life) with a DVD of her live performance of the song.

Plastic Love was originally released back in 1984 which was on her 6th album, VARIETY.

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RIP Patrick Fahy. 1960 – 2019

Last Thursday, I lost my father to Stage IV Lung Cancer after a short battle.

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[The Jukebox] S6E11 – Macross 82-99 – Fun Tonight

A genre that I have been listening to a lot in the last couple of years has been “Future Funk”… ahem, I mean “Ｆｕｔｕｒｅ　Ｆｕｎｋ　因為ヾ”

A genre born from the illustrious vaporwave sub-genre which was brought to popularity in the early parts of 2010’s with its sampling of music from the ’70s and ’80s English & Japanese pop and disco songs and the incorporation of synth-wave and other sub-genres of vaporwave and citypop.

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[The JukeBox] S6E10 – Joji – Slow Dancing in the Dark

George Miller made his name on the internet way before the release and popularity of Slow Dancing in the Dark. For several years, George was under the persona of Filthy Frank.

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[The JukeBox] S6E9 – WILLOW – Wait a Minute!

In my previous Jukebox, I wrote how the video-sharing service, TikTok was exposing artists and their music. Here is another song that was made popular from the app.

Will Smith’s daughter Willow burst onto the music scene at just 9 years old when she released the infamous song, “Whip My Hair” and since then she has gone and released 3 albums (The latest only being in July of this year)

Here is “Wait a Minute!” which has a nice chill beat.

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Protect & secure your Facebook account! [2FA]

Previously, I wrote about how to protect your Instagram account. Here is how to do this on Facebook!

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Facebook’s ‘Page Transparency’ & How to know when to spot fake pages!

Back in April of this year, to combat ‘Fake News’, Facebook introduced a new feature on all pages called “Page Transparency”.
It allows everyone who vists the page the ability to see various metadata.

Facebook’s “Page Transparency” box on Padraig Fahy Support
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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood Screenshots [Album]

Since 17th June 2017, I have taken some screenshots within Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood.

As FFXIV: Shadowbringers is going into Early Access tomorrow (28th June 2019), I figured I would upload the images that I have taken over the last couple of years!

 

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[The JukeBox] S6E8 – Kero Kero Bonito – Flamingo

With the rise of the short-form video sharing service, Tik Tok, (formally known as Musical.ly), it has allowed users to lipsync themselves with audio clips such as music pieces and audio recordings of people talking.

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So about Wrestlemania 35

The following is a cross-post from my Wrestling site, SquaredCircle.ie

So about Wrestlemania 35… It was brilliant! Well, about 95% of it anyway. The only match that let it down was the Baron Corbin vs Kurt Angle match. Other than that, it was a solid way to begin the 2019/2020 season of WWE.

Without further ado, let’s have a recap of last night’s show!

[SPOILER WARNING]

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