11/14 Listening Session

RADWIMPS - すずめ (Suzume) ft. 十明 (Toaka)

I had first heard this song when I went to the theaters to see the new One Piece credits. It was the song used to showcase this new anime movie called Suzume No Tojimari. Although I had never heard of the movie or its release, after I heard a clip of this song, I will watch it. I looked it up and listened to the whole song and really loved it. The beat is mostly what attracted me to the song. It's a slow, acoustic kind of song that gets intense in certain moments and it's very emotional. Although it's techno beats layered throughout, the orchestra in the instrumental, and the choir harmonizing in the back, it sounded so beautiful together. From the song's English translation, it seems the person is expressing how they feel about their significant other and how they are upset with the way things are with them, but still wants to be with them. Even though I didn't understand everything they were saying before I found the English lyrics, I could feel the passion and sadness from the song and that says a lot about its quality. 

Me listening to this song:

As for my Japanese learning from this song, I was able to recognize and translate some of the hiragana and kanji that I saw in the lyrics. I translated the title because I knew the hiragana for it. I recognized 中, 人, and 先 in the lyrics which was nice since a lot of the kanji was unfamiliar to me. I recognized their use of その,この, and それ. I also knew もしかしたら means maybe. Despite the song being fast and me not knowing what most of the hiragana and kanji words were, I'm glad I knew what some of them meant and how they were used.