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Discussion: The winner is.... • J-Pop's Flawless Foursome Rate
Member Since: 8/31/2013
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The winner is.... • J-Pop's Flawless Foursome Rate
The first installment of the "Diva's of the Far East" rate series looks into the discographies of Japan's finest - the four main J-POP divas - Ayumi Hamasaki, Kumi Koda, Namie Amuro & Hikaru Utada. Each respective artist will have 5 songs sampled from the beginning, middle, and later portions of their careers. Thus, in total, each artist will have 15 songs taken from each of their illustrious careers.
The tracks selected are a combination of Japanese classics and western fan-favorites in order to easily introduce new listeners to four amazing artists and, possibly, an entirely new genre. In addition to this, I welcome long-time fans to revisit past favorites and key-cuts.
Within the PM Friendly List tag all song titles are hyper linked to their respective video courtesy of jpopsuki.tv or YouTube (remember you're only rating the song, though).
(note: jpopsuki.tv slays but the server can be slow at times, but they're the best streaming site for J-Pop videos so please bear with it!)
Rules & Guidelines:- Assign each track a score between 1 and 10; decimal point scores are accepted,
but only those to the tenth place (i.e 9.5, 8.3). If you assign a score of 0, it will be
rounded up to a 1.
- Send your rates to me via private message and do not post them in the thread!
- PLEASE use the PM friendly list at the end of this post, I beg of you!!
- Rates will be due August 31st, 2014 by midnight / 12:00 AM EST.
PM FRIENDLY LIST
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Your name here! (pls do my rate)- Nait Phoenix
- MirrorcleMonster
Black Pearl
D.D.D.
MonsterPaw
MellowYellow
Rominho.
FantasyRide
ToxicHeaven
Antidote.
Britneyfan09
ZENO
Gasp
new evolution
MINKI
dreeam
AMIT
KremlinChaos
warriorsoul
Early_Mornin
Austin.
Von
Kyle-x
BlueTimberwolf
Jack. Bauer
Special thank you to Ace Reject for allowing me to host this rate and to everyone in the
J-Pop Discussion Thread for helping select the songs! 
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Hi baby girl *muah* I'm in! Gonna go listen to them now. I already know all of Kumi's. 
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Member Since: 5/19/2012
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Beautiful World, Addicted To You, and Real Emotion have to be top 5. BW also has to win.
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Member Since: 6/15/2009
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Amazing graphics as usual! Will send in my rates soon. 
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Member Since: 1/2/2014
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Awesome graphics! I'm only unfamiliar with a few of Kuu's, lemme get on this
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Member Since: 1/2/2014
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I will send mine after re-listening some ayu's and Utada's 
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Namie's choices...... 
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Member Since: 10/18/2010
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You know, after this rate, we should have subsidiaries for each of their genres…
Ayumi's Pop-Rock: Nami Tamaki, Kavka Shishido, alan
Namie's Electro: Meisa Kuroki, Tommy february6, MADEMOISELLE YULIA
Kumi's Urban: Aoyama Thelma, Miliyah Kato, BENI
And for Utada, the perfect English speakers: Rie fu, MiChi, Angela Aki
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Member Since: 3/2/2008
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The graphics slayed 
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Member Since: 3/8/2014
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Great OP, I'm in
Namie's choices are amazing  Some of my favorite Ayu tracks are missing (indeed) tho #momentum
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I just noticed a lot of really good Ayu tracks are missing… like at least one from A or H… I mean, July 1st is literally one of my favorite Ayu tracks… and no "Depend on You", "Monochrome" or "Fly High"…? 
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Member Since: 1/2/2014
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Originally posted by Nait Phoenix
You know, after this rate, we should have subsidiaries for each of their genres…
Ayumi's Pop-Rock: Nami Tamaki, Kavka Shishido, alan
Namie's Electro: Meisa Kuroki, Tommy february6, MADEMOISELLE YULIA
Kumi's Urban: Aoyama Thelma, Miliyah Kato, BENI
And for Utada, the perfect English speakers: Rie fu, MiChi, Angela Aki
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how many of them are relevant nowadays? 
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Member Since: 10/18/2010
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Originally posted by D.D.D.
how many of them are relevant nowadays? |
Well, how many soloists in general are relevant nowadays? The J-Pop world is ruled by Namie Amuro, Koda Kumi, and a host of different idol groups… and Perfume… 
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Originally posted by Antidote.
Hi baby girl *muah* I'm in! Gonna go listen to them now. I already know all of Kumi's. |
Thank you sis 
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Originally posted by conseeded
Beautiful World, Addicted To You, and Real Emotion have to be top 5. BW also has to win.
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real Emotion is coming to snatch!
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Originally posted by Britneyfan09
Amazing graphics as usual! Will send in my rates soon. |
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Originally posted by Black Pearl
Awesome graphics! I'm only unfamiliar with a few of Kuu's, lemme get on this |
Thank you!!
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Member Since: 8/31/2013
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Originally posted by D.D.D.
I will send mine after re-listening some ayu's and Utada's |
Enjoy
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Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf
Namie's choices...... |
Oh? I thought they were a pretty solid representation of Namie over the years 
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Originally posted by Nait Phoenix
You know, after this rate, we should have subsidiaries for each of their genres…
Ayumi's Pop-Rock: Nami Tamaki, Kavka Shishido, alan
Namie's Electro: Meisa Kuroki, Tommy february6, MADEMOISELLE YULIA
Kumi's Urban: Aoyama Thelma, Miliyah Kato, BENI
And for Utada, the perfect English speakers: Rie fu, MiChi, Angela Aki
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That's not a bad idea! The urban one would be so hard, there would be so many songs I'd want to win.
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Originally posted by RafaelBuzz
The graphics slayed |
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Originally posted by MonsterPaw
Great OP, I'm in
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Thank you!
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Originally posted by MonsterPaw
Namie's choices are amazing Some of my favorite Ayu tracks are missing (indeed) tho #momentum |
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Originally posted by Nait Phoenix
I just noticed a lot of really good Ayu tracks are missing… like at least one from A or H… I mean, July 1st is literally one of my favorite Ayu tracks… and no "Depend on You", "Monochrome" or "Fly High"…? |
Some really great ones are, It was pretty hard drawing up songs. I kept writing and revising and going back again. She just has so many singles! From the first half of her career she has ~30 songs that were singles and so many are very ~classic ayu~ so it was tough.
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Member Since: 10/18/2010
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Originally posted by Kyle-x
Thank you!
Some really great ones are, It was pretty hard drawing up songs. I kept writing and revising and going back again. She just has so many singles! From the first half of her career she has ~30 songs that were singles and so many are very ~classic ayu~ so it was tough. |
I can't even imagine! **** that bitch and her flawless EP singles…
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Member Since: 1/2/2014
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Ayu & Namie are by far my favs but I'm gonna need them to take a backseat while JUICY, traveling & Can You Keep A Secret? occupy the top 3.
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Totally doing this!
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