Eurobeat Easter Eggs & Oddities
Re: another oddity
It wasn't that, but still that's another good outtake.Mindsweeper wrote:Thinking of Doctor Love 2009 perhaps? The way he giggles after "DOCTOR DOCTOR LOOOVVEE" certainly sounds like an outtakeMiKong wrote: I love it when they find a way to incorporate vocal outtakes into the track. There's another song that does this (during the intro though) but I forgot the name of it.
There's a song where a female vocalist starts to sing in the intro and then says "Sorry, sorry!" I've been trying to look for it but can't seem to find it.
Another thing...
Tension - You Got Me Going Crazy (1992) sounds a lot like the Game Corner music from Pokemon Gold/Silver. Maybe the composers that were working on the game were influenced by that somehow. Both are in the same key and are roughly the same tempo. Japan was having its eurobeat boom during the period that Pokemon GS was being made, so it's not entirely impossible that the composers might've heard the song.
"Thy body speaketh falsehoods!" - Norma Sheffield
On the subject of eurobeat cut & paste jobs...
+ Fever by Paul Harris has a nearly identical background instrumental track as Born to Love You by Kochiss.
+ Hot Love by Mike Hammer is a near clone of Gunfire by Mark Farina, with the same key + chord progression, similar verse melodies, as the exact same synth hook.
+ The intro of Move Yourself by Derreck Simons is directly knocked off from Matt Land's A Chance to Love You, even containing the same vocal clips of Mateo from that song.
+ Up All Night by Falko, an unpublished SCP song from the late '90s, has the same synth melody that would later appear on Fastway's Kingo King'O Beat.
Despite eurobeat's extreme heteronormativity, a few songs in the genre have apparent gay/lesbian themes, namely:
+ Be My Babe / Jilly ("My special lady, I need you baby")
+ In the Stars / Mako ("You will be my dream loverboy," "I'll get you boy")
+ Dom Dom / Tommie B. (this one's a little ambiguous, since this alias is usually assumed by Gianni Corraini, but the vocalist here seems to be female, and the lyrics go, "When my body's thrilling hot for you, my girl")
Same-sex romance seems to be a slightly more recurring theme on HRG female songs, such as:
+ Hard to Say I'm Sorry / Michelle Rose ("Something has broken between you and me girl")
+ Dynamite / Dee Dee Wonder ("Light my fire, queen of the night")
+ Steppin' to the Clock / Alison Batton ("I wanna take you higher, moving like a queen, in the feeling of the night, my lady")
+ I Never Found a Girl Like You / Michelle Rose (self-explanatory)
+ Fever by Paul Harris has a nearly identical background instrumental track as Born to Love You by Kochiss.
+ Hot Love by Mike Hammer is a near clone of Gunfire by Mark Farina, with the same key + chord progression, similar verse melodies, as the exact same synth hook.
+ The intro of Move Yourself by Derreck Simons is directly knocked off from Matt Land's A Chance to Love You, even containing the same vocal clips of Mateo from that song.
+ Up All Night by Falko, an unpublished SCP song from the late '90s, has the same synth melody that would later appear on Fastway's Kingo King'O Beat.
Despite eurobeat's extreme heteronormativity, a few songs in the genre have apparent gay/lesbian themes, namely:
+ Be My Babe / Jilly ("My special lady, I need you baby")
+ In the Stars / Mako ("You will be my dream loverboy," "I'll get you boy")
+ Dom Dom / Tommie B. (this one's a little ambiguous, since this alias is usually assumed by Gianni Corraini, but the vocalist here seems to be female, and the lyrics go, "When my body's thrilling hot for you, my girl")
Same-sex romance seems to be a slightly more recurring theme on HRG female songs, such as:
+ Hard to Say I'm Sorry / Michelle Rose ("Something has broken between you and me girl")
+ Dynamite / Dee Dee Wonder ("Light my fire, queen of the night")
+ Steppin' to the Clock / Alison Batton ("I wanna take you higher, moving like a queen, in the feeling of the night, my lady")
+ I Never Found a Girl Like You / Michelle Rose (self-explanatory)
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...but for some reason, they weren't. Instead, you have the studio bringing in somebody of the same sex as the target lover in the song, recording it, and actually publishing it. Really makes you wonder...Vinylyarou wrote:Mark & Roby - Hey You Boy also has this "characteristic", but I think that's because some songs were written to be sung by other artists#Infinity wrote:...
Despite eurobeat's extreme heteronormativity, a few songs in the genre have apparent gay/lesbian themes...
All it needs is the sound effect from The Exorcist for good effect lol... And a Christmas remix, a 2004 remix, a Dream of Dream mix, a New Generation Remix, and a Hyper Techno version to make it complete.Lebon14 wrote:Listen to this track. I'll leave making the line drawing up to you guys.
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On the same theme as above, take a look at the lyrics for David Essex "Love & Celebration". Seems to be about a guy who is in love with another guy who just plays around with his feelings...Very aishu, I guess better to say "dousei aishu".#Infinity wrote:On the subject of eurobeat cut & paste jobs...
+ Fever by Paul Harris has a nearly identical background instrumental track as Born to Love You by Kochiss.
+ Hot Love by Mike Hammer is a near clone of Gunfire by Mark Farina, with the same key + chord progression, similar verse melodies, as the exact same synth hook.
+ The intro of Move Yourself by Derreck Simons is directly knocked off from Matt Land's A Chance to Love You, even containing the same vocal clips of Mateo from that song.
+ Up All Night by Falko, an unpublished SCP song from the late '90s, has the same synth melody that would later appear on Fastway's Kingo King'O Beat.
Despite eurobeat's extreme heteronormativity, a few songs in the genre have apparent gay/lesbian themes, namely:
+ Be My Babe / Jilly ("My special lady, I need you baby")
+ In the Stars / Mako ("You will be my dream loverboy," "I'll get you boy")
+ Dom Dom / Tommie B. (this one's a little ambiguous, since this alias is usually assumed by Gianni Corraini, but the vocalist here seems to be female, and the lyrics go, "When my body's thrilling hot for you, my girl")
Same-sex romance seems to be a slightly more recurring theme on HRG female songs, such as:
+ Hard to Say I'm Sorry / Michelle Rose ("Something has broken between you and me girl")
+ Dynamite / Dee Dee Wonder ("Light my fire, queen of the night")
+ Steppin' to the Clock / Alison Batton ("I wanna take you higher, moving like a queen, in the feeling of the night, my lady")
+ I Never Found a Girl Like You / Michelle Rose (self-explanatory)
"Hey, tonight you keep on dancing
Everybody knows you came for dancing
Say, say, GUY don't stop me now,
will you
Play and play, you're shaking your body
Loving you is feeding your passion
Get the night and love me baby
Heaven is inside my soul
Love and celebration
Singin' around my song
I cannot feel the situation
(Are) you telling you love me more
And give me your body and soul?
Hey, hey, BOY you keep on playing
Everybody knows you just like playing
Day by day, can't stop you now,
will you"
Play and play, you're shaking your
body
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I love how eurobeat, italo, and Hi-NRG in general can be so open to themes like these, long before it was even ever touched by mainstream artists, thanks to earlier non-mainstream high energy and italo artists who were doing this since the late 70's, and through-out the 80's.
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Well that's just terribleLebon14 wrote:Listen to this track. I'll leave the conclusion-making to you guys.
At least this one is trying to be a parody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlVVD91YkeY
(this one is also terrible though)
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I second that theory. When you look at the lyrics of this category of songs, they typically have also other characteristics that suggest the lyricist had a different gender vocalist in mind. I guess they just didn't care enough to rewrite the lyrics, thinking that the Japanese won't care, or maybe thinking it was funny.Vinylyarou wrote:but I think that's because some songs were written to be sung by other artists
Every time I'm free
I realize that funny time will take me higher
I realize that funny time will take me higher
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Akibachi is great but it's pretty much a stripped-down derivative of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiRsdT9sehU
Listen to both songs starting from the first verse and it should be pretty obvious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyITWO61OeU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiRsdT9sehU
Listen to both songs starting from the first verse and it should be pretty obvious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyITWO61OeU
Pamsy - Livin In The Night > Maggie Reilly - Everytime We Touch
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I know this technically is a "tribute" to 'that eurobeat song', but I seem to hear more of Superstar Megastar by Niko & Domino than anything else. Pretty weird.Lebon14 wrote:Listen to this track. I'll leave the conclusion-making to you guys.
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