Secret Pop Tart

My name is Sanyu and I am a secret poptart.
Ok- not so secret to people who know my surprising tendency to every-so-often like really tacky sugary pop music, even though I am aware that it isn't a taste to be proud of.

In Japan, the poptart in me is being indulged. Japanese pop music is sugary sweet happy stuff- all bubbles and parades and life is one great party, or it's dramatic emotional ballads of heartache- at least that's what I have access to on my cableless and sateliteless terrestial Japanese TV. I know there is rocky stuff out there too- and obviously a whole wealth of underground music that I am currently unaware of, but I don't know how to get hold of it.

The sugary stuff is always accompanied by subtitles (that I still can't read quick enough) and by overly cute female singers or heavily coiffiered boy bands who smile and dimple their way through their latest track with bubbles, glitter, and cute animal animations. All a little sickening, and yet I'm finding it harder to resist..

This isn't the latest Top 10 but a taster- enjoy.



And this song just makes me smile- we always do it at kareoke even though most of us only know the one English line in it...