How do you like your music?

How do you like to listen to your music? Do you frequently make and change playlists to listen to? Do you use some online music service that auto selects songs for you (something i don't use, so i don't know much about it…)? Do you let iTunes or your choice of music player pick songs at random for you, or do you play it in some sort of order (alphabetical? by date?)

I'm a person who likes to be in control of what i listen to… so even if i use shuffle, I'd skip those songs that I'm not that fond of listening to. I'd often make playlists of just a few songs and listen to just that few songs over and over again… or better still, have just one song on repeat over and over. Like if i just downloaded a new song that 'just hits the spot' I'd listen to it (and only it) day in day out… till either i finally get sick of the song (maybe a week or 2 later?), or till i download even more new songs (than I'd probably be repeating a few songs, instead of just one).

When i get hooked on a song… its like I'd listen to just that song the entire time when I'm traveling… or if I'm out shopping… that's something that my sis absolutely can't stand… which also explains why the stats in my iTunes look like this:

heh… i really love pikanchi… at 300+ plays its my top played song… next up with 230+ plays is attack it… Attack it is a much shorter song though, so its not surprising that i listened to it so many times already… for the time i take to listen to pikanchi once, i can hear attack it 1.5x already… Evidence of how crazy i can get over a single song --> Kaze. Played over a 100 times already… and the truth is that the 1st time i heard it properly was just before CNY. I added the Time and Dream a live album at the same time, so I was busy listening to other songs like Once Again, Carry On and My Answer (which i really like too!)… those songs are great too, but kaze really was IT… i played it throughout the time i was cleaning up the house… made my spring cleaning experience much better XD

I guess what i like about pikanchi is that it's a rather angsty song? i like angsty songs XD

Normally i arrange my songs by date added though… and i'll listen to the last few songs added to iTunes… Went on a iTunes adding spree last night/this morning though… took quite a while but i've finally finished adding all arashi album songs into my iTunes library! Gotta do things like fill up the artist names and album names properly ya know..? and finding the kanji lyrics too… A huge thank you to yarukizero on live journal! I took a lot of the lyrics from there…! The rest came from jpopasia. Next up would be to fill in the remaining arashi songs that appear in their singles, but didn’t make it to the album… like most/all? of what they call the 'side b' songs? Not too sure what it means but.. i guess it's like the old days of the cassette tape where there's side A and side B… and side B would be the 'not so important' songs kind of thing? Perhaps...

I wonder how many songs arashi has released thus far o.o

Downloaded some music box versions of arashi songs too… quite cute, really love the music box versions done by yukimusicbox on youtube… a bit shrill but its fast paced and light hearted… some of the other versions i heard were kinda slow and lower pitched and made the song sound rather heavy… which defeats the purpose of me listening to a music box version. Well i guess it can be calming and stuff, but i've always been a sucker for fast music so XD

hmm… now over a 3rd of my songs are arashi's… including all that random music box versions and stuff...

ok, that's all for now…!

Random stuff

Last few days of slack... before sch starts. the time time still aint out yet... and i still don't know which elective i'm taking... gah...

presidential electives date set for the 27th aug. i still barely know a single thing abt the candidates -.-''' man i don't even know how many have submitted the forms so far... gah... guess i've got some reading up to do before i head to the polls.

recently there's a couple of english songs i'm kinda addicted to. considering how i've been listening to arashi songs (japanese) for the longest time... its been a really long time since i last added any new englis songs to my list. well there was grenade by bruno mars a while back, but recently Airplanes by B.o.B. and price tag by Jessie J really caught my attention. came across airplanes when i went shopping with my family in msia (yes the one with the roast duck and all i blogged abt a while back)... finally got round to downloading the song a while back and been listening to it a lot since than. i normally try and caught a few phrases/sentences of the song, write it down in my phone, than go find the song when i remember later on...

well i don't think the PV is really nice... doesn’t really get me into the mood of the song... but well that's the nice thing abt western world VS JE... they happily post their official PVs on youtube for everyone to watch, share, and spread... whereas JE takes down videos from youtube as soon as they can find them :(

i heard price tag when my sis showed me a cute arashi fan vid... found the song addicting and when to dl it. the fanvid is really good tho (except the poor quality i'd prefer it not to be in b/w)... as in, the scenes fitted nicely with the song lyrics, and made the whole song look and sound fun... fits the mood of the song really well IMO. so yeah... here's the vid that i really liked. the best part is probably the 'everybody look to the left/right' part... really amusing lol.

yesterday i went on a crazy rampage of dl-ing high quality arashi song PVs and music station performances. maybe i'm spoiled by JE's type of PVs... maybe cos i've been a fan of arashi for a while... didn’t really like many of the US made PVs... grenade pv was really quite... meaning less to me... the storyline was really weird and it just didn’t... entice me to listen to the song. maybe its just a total different mindset... like from my friends who prefer western pop to me who erm... prefer arashi songs (i wont even say jpop, since i pretty much only listen to arashi songs... for now). its like after watching those PVs i wish i'd just listen to the song on its own, w/o ever looking for its PV. meh... but since i generally don't like those PVs, i didn’t watch many of them so maybe it just so happened that i'm unlucky...?

meh... i wonder wat my friends (i've got some to absolutely love musicals, glee etc) would think if they see arashi's PVs... some of the dance (they didn’t dance in all PVs, depends on the song etc...), outfits, and settings are just so darn freaking cool. truth and monster is cool, troublemaker had a cute and fun PV... very much like the song's title... now i'm in love with mada minu sekai e dance in music station. they jumped around a lot and yes they sang live. maybe i shd try n get my friends into arashi... than at least i wont feel so left out when they discuss on and on abt all the western music scene...

heh. nothing else to say... or rather, too many things to say, but not sure how to put it out in words. that's all for now.