Hitomi’s “Wish” was the song that introduced me to JPop. I found it by accident when radio stations broadcast over the internet, and you could find stations from Tokyo that played music you liked. I spoke no Japanese at the times, and couldn’t figure out who it was. I listened to that station every moment I could, hoping that they would play it again and I could quickly copy the characters in hopes of finding it again. It took me months and a trip to Tokyo, where I found a really cool cd store near a train bridge in Shinjuku. The girl working there knew the song, helped me find the cd, and others by hitomi, Mr. Children, Every Little Thing, and others. To this day, hitomi’s Thermo Plastic is the most perfect album I’ve ever heard, and I hear at least one song from it every day since I first got it in the late 90’s. (Yes, I’m old).
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by ThatDudeKdoc13