I am an anison dinosaur
So, it's been bothering me as of late, and it all started from a sudden revelation.
One of the more recent posts here was me idolising I've Sound (and I will for the rest of my life) but specifically their golden era. i.e. mid-00s, when they made songs that talk about sex and desolation for the games that have them and they never ever gave a shit which made their songs great and with meaning, although how moral the meanings are would be open to discussion. Right, but that's not saying I hate the new I've. I bought their latest compilation album (Evidence Nine) and Yuzuno is a good singer imo.
But that's not what I'm talking about here. When it comes to anime songs, for the past 2-3 years I try to listen to many of them but most of them are just, plain, meh. I miss the days when Maaya would make me awestruck, and same goes to AliPro, Makkun, even Nana. And that's just the singers that I like. It's gotten really hard for me to listen to either the new Lantis singers such as Sayaka Sasaki, or the Sony Music lineup of LiSA/Eir/Luna/Konomi/Aimer etc, I might like one song but the rest can't match up to my expectations.
The past few years only one new singer caught my heart and that is Iori Nomizu, whom I discovered has a voice quality similar to an 80's Malay singer who my RL self enjoyed listening to when I was a kid. The same period saw my interest to Yuinyan and Ayane wane, due to their substandard new material.
So it meant that I play songs that are at least 5 years old in my car. I begin to realise that if I was to go to a karaoke bar with anison, people would rile me for not knowing how to sing Vocaloid, Love Live, Pretty Rhythm, Precure, MomoClo, new Imas, even AKB48 which I despise for no specific reason. I popped an 8-year-old mixCD in my player this morn and I enjoyed the ride, singing every line of stuff like Casting Dice. Then it struck me.
I am a dinosaur.
I can make the excuse that new anison is crap, but no I gotta be honest: I'm not keeping up. Usually it takes 2-3 anime seasons for me to filter what I like and maaaybe t/l it. Takes either a week or a decade. No wonder I'm not famous.
But is this true, do a lot of you actually cling on to some of the old tunes from long ago? Or do you keep up with the latest songs for the ones I mentioned?
But whatever you do, don't hybrid me. I may wreck the island.
One of the more recent posts here was me idolising I've Sound (and I will for the rest of my life) but specifically their golden era. i.e. mid-00s, when they made songs that talk about sex and desolation for the games that have them and they never ever gave a shit which made their songs great and with meaning, although how moral the meanings are would be open to discussion. Right, but that's not saying I hate the new I've. I bought their latest compilation album (Evidence Nine) and Yuzuno is a good singer imo.
But that's not what I'm talking about here. When it comes to anime songs, for the past 2-3 years I try to listen to many of them but most of them are just, plain, meh. I miss the days when Maaya would make me awestruck, and same goes to AliPro, Makkun, even Nana. And that's just the singers that I like. It's gotten really hard for me to listen to either the new Lantis singers such as Sayaka Sasaki, or the Sony Music lineup of LiSA/Eir/Luna/Konomi/Aimer etc, I might like one song but the rest can't match up to my expectations.
The past few years only one new singer caught my heart and that is Iori Nomizu, whom I discovered has a voice quality similar to an 80's Malay singer who my RL self enjoyed listening to when I was a kid. The same period saw my interest to Yuinyan and Ayane wane, due to their substandard new material.
So it meant that I play songs that are at least 5 years old in my car. I begin to realise that if I was to go to a karaoke bar with anison, people would rile me for not knowing how to sing Vocaloid, Love Live, Pretty Rhythm, Precure, MomoClo, new Imas, even AKB48 which I despise for no specific reason. I popped an 8-year-old mixCD in my player this morn and I enjoyed the ride, singing every line of stuff like Casting Dice. Then it struck me.
I am a dinosaur.
I can make the excuse that new anison is crap, but no I gotta be honest: I'm not keeping up. Usually it takes 2-3 anime seasons for me to filter what I like and maaaybe t/l it. Takes either a week or a decade. No wonder I'm not famous.
But is this true, do a lot of you actually cling on to some of the old tunes from long ago? Or do you keep up with the latest songs for the ones I mentioned?
But whatever you do, don't hybrid me. I may wreck the island.