I am a huge fan of Final Fantasy XIV and it’s music. It’s main composer Masayoshi Soken has created some fantastic music in the last 6 years of the game’s existence and he knocks it out of the park each and every expansion.
At the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Paris (which I attended), it was announced that the dev team had collaborated with another Square-Enix developer, PlatinumGames, to bring a new 24-man raid with a crossover between Final Fantasy XIV and Nier: Automata titled YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse.
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. … 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 define 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, was released in 2014 reaching Number 1 on 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 and was on her 6th album, VARIETY.
Mariya Takeuchi – Plastic Love
Mariya Takeuchi – Plastic Love
The song became popular in the West in 2017 when a user on YouTube uploaded the song (See above) and became a frequent recommendation for viewers on the platform.
Today, the song has amassed a whopping 31 Million views and is flying the flag as being the ‘mascot’ for Future Funk.
I cannot count how many times I have listened to this song. I only wished that Last.FM had some sort of integration with YouTube to find out that statistic.
More recently, I have come across some remixes of the song on SoundCloud and then discovered a load more on YouTube which brings me to the point of this post.
Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up
3 years after the release of Plastic Love, Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up was released.
A song that has become a staple ‘meme’ within the Internet landscape since the late 2000s, which has also held up very well 33 years after its release with an eye-popping 693 Million views on YouTube.
Rick Takeuchi – Never Gonna Give You Plastic Love
YouTube user, Gemosu, released a video back in August of 2018, mashing the two songs together to give this 80’s lovers treat.
An opposite version of the song was created by Gemosu in May of 2019 titled: Mariya Astley – Plastic You Up
The thumbnail is truly something else.
2 absolutely stunning mashups of 2 brilliant songs from yesteryear.
This was the beginning of a new series of ‘The JukeBox’. No ‘editions’ or ‘series’ numbers this time, just posting about music. It’s time for a change in the format and I feel that writing about the songs, rather than just posting lyrics is more enjoyable. Expect more in the future.
This post was initially published on May 22nd 2022 and was last updated on the 6th November 2022.
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.
2014 has been a great year for “good music”. While there has been the few songs that have been played to death on Radio and TV, there is one song that has stuck out to me as being a fantastic song.
Now, I am not going to do a “Top 5” or “Top 10” list as that would be time consuming, so here it is…My favorite song of 2014!
It has been about a year since my last Music Lyric Monday that I had running on my previous blogging software (WordPress), but now that I am on Tumblr, I feel that I can reach out to alot more people that I could have before.
Anyway, Let’s Begin MLM!!!
Welcome to Music Lyric Monday S3 E1. Every Monday, I showcase my favorite song of the past week in the form of a video and lyrics to that song.
The first song in this series is from a genre which I have gotten into in the past month or so. Sorta Japanese-techno, but not OTT. I hope you all enjoy and I will see you next week.
If you have any suggestions on what I should listen to, drop me a reply to THIS post and I will have a listen 🙂
YOUTUBE:
LYRICS:
-Intro- music dari kita bagi music bagi kita semua
-verse1- memainkan nada yang kita bisa di sore ini yang ceria bersama senyuman manja matahari sembunyi
gunakan irama apa pun yang ada bawaku berdansa antara mimpi dan dunia nyata kita jumpa
-reff- tunjukkan mimpimu kita kan penuhi month of music tak ada jawaban mudah membawamu ke sana
jika ku katakan akan kumainkan non-stop music irama jantungku kencang karena jumpa kamu
-verse2- jalinan nada yang kita cipta membuat harimu berwarna bersama kita bisa mengubah dunia
melalui lagu yang kita miliki bagikan cinta sebagai satu karunia nyata yang kuasa
This is an old post from 2009 that has been re-created. I was 17 when I first blogged so it’s very cringe. This was the entirety of Season 2 of what is now The JukeBox, so this would have ‘counted’ as 15 editions of that… Stupid I know…
Before I start this review I would like to say the following: I know that I havn’t blogged in a while, this is because of my personal life catching up to me (again). But hopefully, I should be doing blogging a tad more often. It’s not everyday that I can blog 😀
I bought this Limited Edition set because it was cheap. Our local music shop was closing down and prices on everything went down. This went from €60 down to a lovely €15.
This album is very enjoyable even though I havn’t heard much AC/DC in the past. A few song I like, others you don’t (obviously) and thats what makes this album. There is something for everyone here and not just people who like classic rock.
![[The Jukebox] #59 – Weight of the World (Prelude Version) – Keiichi Okabe](https://padraig.blog/wp-content/uploads/wordpress/2020/05/ffxiv51.png)
![[The Jukebox] #58 – Rick Takeuchi – Never Gonna Give You Plastic Love](https://padraig.blog/wp-content/uploads/wordpress/2020/05/rick_takeuchi.jpg)
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