Saturday, September 19, 2015 "Song Finding."

Saturday, September 19, 2015
Week: 6
Songs to Remember: Ring My Bell - Girl's Day

        My day was relaxing, nothing much else to say about that. So let's talk about something else: music.

        I've talked about it before, but I wanna discuss how I get new music. Well, where I find it. One of my top 2 genres of music is K-Pop, and finding new songs for it is slightly more difficult than well, English songs, heh. Pandora is just a bit too slow for that, in my opinion, for K-Pop, Pandora recycles old K-Pop songs way too much and I've pretty much heard most of what it recommends ms already.

        I have yet to try Spotify, but I'm sure it's about the same. So, I turn to K-Pop charts, the ones uploaded by users on YouTube. I follow two channels, JasmineBlack and DJ Digital, who both upload weekly K-Pop charts for a wide variety of K-Pop songs. I'd say they have provided me about 60% of the songs I've listened to, and still do. As for English songs, I prefer to listen to Alternative, Indie, and EDM songs. For those, Pandora is really good for finding songs like those because it plays popular songs, and because I don't keep up much with American music, most if those popular songs I've never heard about. And most of them are good so, I add those to my collection.

        Umm, I also enjoy like, 80's -ish kinda music. J-Pop is cool sometimes as well. There's this channel, ArtzieMusic, on YouTube, who uploads lots of songs by artists who make like, Japanese Disco Rave music. A big 80's vibe to 'em, really really good undiscovered music. I never even knew fucking that type of music existed. I found "BABYBABY" by Tanuki one day and it led me to that channel. And holy shit was I hooked for a while. I check it every now and then.

        YouTube's definitely a great place for finding Indie type of music. One way is to find a YouTube video which leads to YouTube Narnia, then explore from there. YouTube Narnia's basically where the related videos lead to other less-known music videos of Indie songs. There's a huge variety of songs, and most you won't really find elsewhere.

        So yeah. I made this post 'cause one user on YouTube, SHIMMIXES, has stopped making K-Pop mashups. I enjoyed his songs so much, you can't find mashups like that anywhere else. His were out of this world, and after finding other lackluster/mediocre mashups on YouTube, I was wondering if I could just make my own. If I don't find songs I like, might as well make my own. Probably not paralled to SHIMMIXES' level of mashups, but just enough to the point where I'll enjoy what I make. If it sounds good to me, it sounds good to me. And so, that's it for tonight. See ya.