A Filipino writer shares their lifelong love for Japanese pop music, highlighting its evolution from niche interest to mainstream appeal. The essay focuses on the recent success of Fujii Kaze, whose viral hit 'Shinunoga E-Wa' led to a sold-out concert in Manila, drawing a diverse crowd of fans who embraced his eclectic musical style.
Because of my love for anime, I have been listening to Japanese music since I was around eight to nine years old. I would buy bootleg cassette tapes of anime soundtracks in Greenhills and I would blissfully play Japanese songs at home, much to my mom’s chagrin.
I’ve often written about this experience and while the current trends in music seem to be in my favor, with the rise and universality of Korean Pop, Japanese Pop will always be my first love. Although it hasn’t shared the same limelight as its Korean counterpart, we have seen artists like Hikaru Utada in the early 2000s and recently One Ok Rock break into the mainstream.
Many of Fuji Kaze’s visuals during his concert have him shot up close, at a lower angle, so he seems close and large on screen and to the audience, almost like Godzilla towering over buildings. He also employed a ‘hall of mirrors’ effect, so the audience saw multiple images of his androgynous face and his lanky frame on the screen as he danced and let the music move him.
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