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RedComet
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It was a nice interview and I liked the questions but I almost died when she said Ashley Simpson...
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Fuhrer
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Haha, yah. My heart broke just a little when I read Ashley Simpson. Oh my.
 
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v1cious
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my god! how can anyone cite both Bjork and Ashlee Simpson as inspiration? it's heresy.
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Joe Mello
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I think I hear the Bjork inspiration in some of her stuff.
(I'm talking about those instances where she sounds like she's on helium. Really, that's basically what it sounds like.) Don't tell me that her first song was "Sakuranbo Kiss." That would just be 18 flavors of awesome. |
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icepick314
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she needs better inspiration than Ashley Simpson....no wonder she forgot her lyrics on live TV broadcast.....
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redcomet15
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I have a song by someone named Kotoko that is the theme to the adult game Baldr Force. The song is called Face of Fact. It's a pretty sweet song. I don't suppose that the Kotoko that sung Face of Fact is the same Kotoko from this interview?
Good interview, by the way. |
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Fuhrer
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Yes it is the same Kotoko, not that I think there is another our there though  .
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xanbcoo
 Posts: 245 Location: Houston/Austin Tx |
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I first knew about Kotoko from Onegai Teacher and have loved her ever since.
Nice to see the face/personality behind all those synthesizers. |
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HeisT
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First song I heard from KOTOKO was " Wing My Way " from a PC game call "Farland Symphony". Later, I listened to all her released anime music, they are great songs.
One question, who's Ashley Simpson?? edited : I done a little research on the adult title that she mention, maybe is "Ren'ai CHU!"? |
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Caro-chan
Posts: 22 Location: Madison, WI |
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A mediocre pop singer from the US. Not worth your time. |
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Tribblewing
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I think she also might've sung a few songs for the anime Tenku Senki Shurato (a.k.a. - Shurato: The Heavenly War Chronicles).
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SSJ3Brian
Posts: 2 Location: Maryland |
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Oh! I finally get to cite yet another relatively unknown song she did!
A few year's back, the video game company, Princess Soft, created an interactive PS2 video game called "Natsuiro no Sunadokei" (Hourglass of Summer Colors). She did the opening theme for this game! The song's called "Went Away". It's a really good song. I wish there was a way to get it (the official sound file doesn't have this song). 
There was a version of the game made for the PC, but it wasn't by Princess Soft, but by a company called "Berries" (it also had some pointless hentai scenes added in). The game was successful enough to gain Hirameki International's (anime publisher (not so much anymore)/small video game publisher) attention. So it was released domestically (joy)! Only instead of releasing a PS2 version of the game here, they decided to port the game to be playable by anybody who owns a standard DVD player (they released the DVD-port version of the game as "Hourglass of Summer"). |
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holl.e.rama
Posts: 102 Location: California |
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Cool, a KOTOKO interview! I've always liked her songs. Both the ultra-cute ones and the trance ones I like. Some of her lyrics though...lol. I wish I could have gone and seen her.
But yeah, KOTOKO has dones scores of songs for I'VE especially, plus she's written a lot of songs that other I'VE singers perform. If you have any anime or J-Pop songs that list KOTOKO as the artist, it's sure to be her. Her encyclopedia page isn't very long, so I'm sure there are many more games she did themes for people could contribute if they know person#15663 |
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marshall_b
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I was surprised when she said she checking the content of the games so she can write proper lyrics to them. I was sure she wouldn't even know what some of the games are about ^^"
a lot of people are a little suspecting when hearing a certain artist does themes for adult games, and avoid hearing her work. but she's great, my favourite actually.and I too started off Onegai Teacher ^^ how I wish to meat that woman...
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Andromeda
Posts: 119 Location: Florida |
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If you're going to bother to reply, at least ACTUALLY tell them who she is. I'm not even a fan and I could do better than that. And plenty of people like her. Sure, she ain't the Rolling Stones, but her, for lack of a better word, fluffy brand of rock has its appeal to some.
She's a pop rock singer, which is just slightly different than regular pop (I speak in terms of it having some minor rock influences - usually limited to guitar and sometimes a bit of passionate screaming, think of it as "rock lite" - as opposed to pop ballads and/or bubblegum pop and/or R&B-influenced pop. Yes, there IS a difference.  not all fluff is exactly the same brand of fluff). Quite popular, but probably mostly because she rode the coattails of Jessica Simpson, her sister (Jessica Simpson being a pop singer sort of... known for her dumb blond schtick here. Not fond of her myself because from what I've seen she tends to do those really saccharine pop romance ballads, which I get really bored of most of the time, but she has a good voice).
I see nothing wrong with listing Ashlee Simpson (which by the way, is how it's actually spelled, not as "Ashley") as someone she listens to. People have different tastes. Heck, I listen to everything from classical music, jazz, and new age (well... SOME New Age. Not all of it. Some of it's a little too weird for me ), to Romanian dance music, to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to more "poppy" groups and singers like Smash Mouth, Michelle Branch, and yes -GASP! - occasionally a Britney Spears dance song if it's not overly slutty (I can't stand "I'm a Slave 4U". Especially not after running across that teens-in-heat music video while channel surfing. Yuck, IMO ) or a bad cover of someone else's song (she really should stick to songwriters, and to her OWN songwriters, because I've yet to hear her do a cover song that actually sounded as good or better than the original artist's version of it). And some anime soundtracks, ranging from Slayers to Bebop to Noir or .hack.
Does this mean I'm a bad person? No. Does it mean I'm an idiot for occasionally liking a little fluff? No. I just have musical tastes that differ from other people's. I also see nothing wrong with being into fluffier pop rock like Michelle Branch or Ashlee Simpson, or pop dance songs like some of Britney's stuff (some, mind you. A lot of it... not so much, at least for me ). What's wrong with fluff? It's fun, catchy, good to clean house to or dance to, and it doesn't take much brain power to "get" it; it's just fun/catchy music, and it's really not meant to be much more than that.
Considering she writes themes for entertainment (video games and anime), I don't quite get why listening to "fluffy fun" music is surprising or bad. Considering the fluff on the J-pop airwaves? You really gotta be kidding me. Heck, most of the J-pop or anime theme lyrics I've seen translated aren't any less silly or fluffy than American pop anyway. It's just in a different language is all.
By the way:
Kotoko actually SINGS, my friend. The whole Ashlee Simpson performance kerfluffle actually arose from her turning out to be lip-synching instead of singing, not forgetting the lyrics.
Kotoko didn't pull an Ashlee Simpson; she just got nervous. There's a term for that: "stage fright". You know, the thing that happens where you panic during a live performance because you suddenly realize you're in front of a whole heck of a lot of people and if you screw it up it'll be majorly embarassing? The thing that happens when you fall prey to a fear that is in fact more common than the fear of death (public speaking/performance)? Yeah, that. Simpson's was a dirty little secret (lip-synching her performances) exposed by, from what I've heard, a technical issue with her equipment. Kotoko's was a simple, perfectly normal case of stage fright over her first big, televised live performance. The two are almost completely different; and the only thing they have in common at all is that they were embarassing problems that occured during a live performance. So many other things can go wrong (I believe Micheal Jackson once got too close to his fireworks and caught on fire once, I've heard of people doing a stage dive and missing the crowd, and of course, the idiot who took off his shorts and wrung the sweat out over a crowd at a Christian concert, and those are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head!), that really, comparing them is like comparing apples and oranges. Are they both fruit? Yes. But are they the same, do they leave the same taste in one's mouth? No and no.
This is going somewhat more off-topic, but has anybody else been having trouble getting an avatar to show up for them? I tried to use one, and it didn't really work for some reason... it refused to save any of my settings/preferences.
-Andromeda |
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