One of the very first Japanese words I learned wasafuredasu, or “overflow.” This wasn’t because it showed up in a textbook or a teacher taught it to me, but becauseafuredasuseems to show up in roughly a third of everyJapanese pop songever produced. It’s not the...
Physical album distribution through cassettes and CD's does not effectively become the main revenue generator as in the early 1980's. In Indonesia, two of the most remarkable music stores have stopped their business operations which are Aquarius [25] and Disc Tarra [26]. They have changed ...
Very often, a ballad is a song with a lyric about love – or lost love. Usually slower in tempo (there are also mid-tempo ballads), most ballads are based on a fairly predictable song form with lyrics written from either the first or third person, often sung directly to the person who...
JOC: Well, there’s one generator that you can use your middle name and the first street that you lived on. So, mine would be Cornelius San Gabriel. But I just watched an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, the new season, and his fake name was Buck Dancer. MM: If you had to go i...
We recorded it all down one sections after the other, chopped it up, rearranged some stuff, deleted some stuff and then boom, we had a base song structure. At that point, Julie brought in the concept of the lyric...