So, have an incredibly beautiful song from Miss Saigon. (Sort of - it apparently didn't make the cut.)

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Found this joke, which only people at least a bit familiar with music theory will get, on one of the joke E-mails I signed up for (don't ask ( Read more... )

This song, originally from the movie The Land Before Time, was apparently HUGELY popular in Japan. And has been translated into Japanese - although the lyrics seem almost completely changed from the original ( Read more... )

From the movie Anastasia. Oldie but goodie.

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I have no idea whether these will mean much to anyone except me. But hey, who cares. :)
First, on a somber note, this beautiful song about friends parting.

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Funnily enough, I've read that the melody of this song was written by a Westerner but has pretty much been forgotten in the actual Western world. However, this song has remained popular in ( Read more... )

Awesome and horrible all at once, in a train-wreck have-to-look kind of way: Evangelion Caramelldansen. My mind is being blown apart by the horrifying Evas and Angels grooving out to cute music...

A nice one: Suzumiya Haruhi Caramelldansen. I have no idea what they're saying in Japanese, but it's more interesting than your usual Caramelldansen vid ( Read more... )

Well, not unless you're a nerd like me, I guess...but I wanted to play the Sakura Wars theme song, and ended up clicking on CardCaptor Sakura instead.

As I've always said, Japan has far too many Sakuras. :D

Because she's doing it in Chinese. At the World Games in Taiwan. And she sings in partnership with a Chinese singer, doing entire verses.
Sorry, Sarah Brightman, but Hayley totally pwns you at singing in Chinese. That line at the Olympic Games was great, but it takes a heck of a lot of courage to sing entire verses in front of an audience for whom ( Read more... )

Alexander's Ragtime Band. In Japanese.

Courtesy of babydoc3, originally.