♫Song of the week: “君へのラブソング〜１０年先も〜” by Matsushita Yuuya (松下優也)

This week (sorry I missed out on last week’s!) the spotlight is on Matsushita Yuuya’s song, “君へのラブソング〜１０年先も〜” (“Love Song To You ~ Even after 10 years ~”).

<video updated soon, hang in there!>

This song is still pretty fresh! It came out exactly three months ago in January. I recall hearing it somewhere on the internet when it first came out, and heard it again last week when I was at Daiso! (yes that is where I get my music from) It’s a nice break from all the techno-supersonic-pop that seems to be all the rage these days, and best of all it’s a sappy love song! The music video is quite interesting to watch too, Yuuya seems to have hand gestures to match all his lyrics!

The best part of this song is the actual lyrics being sung, so I tried to translate them for y’all, check it out below!

♫Song of the week: “A.ri.ga.tou” by CNBLUE

It didn’t come out just last week, but it was released by Korean band CNBLUE (シーエヌブルー), a little more than two years ago. This is what I love listening to in Japan, hands down. Yes it is my ‘shinkansen’ 新幹線 (‘bullet train’) song. “A.ri.ga.tou”, from their ThankU album is a Japanese-sung song, and the lyrics are quite meaningful.

A great way to pick up new words in Japanese (as a matter of fact, any other language actually) is through music.
Here are the lyrics or ‘kashi‘ (歌詞):