I bestow upon you...

[Reijin]

Shiina Ringo.
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I love this chick. Every song has some different indie style to it. She has traiditional Enka songs, she has hardcore, she has punkish, she does soft stuff, its just... You'd have to hear it.
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Watch this fuckin' video. I love this song. She's usually more straight Japanese in language, but this video is for the most part English, and badass.
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And when you see, it, then you see other videos by her, with that same unmistakeable voice and style, yet totally different contradictory sound to it. And then you realize you still like it.
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/plugs
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Its just so weird and cool. Such a "Midsummer's Night Dream" sound to it, and gets stuck in your head.<br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxZ1ypeml...%20english
<br>There's an example of her style change in the same song right there.<br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmKahlKW1...%20english
<br>Different song completely, but very good contrasting song.<br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBIfyf2Lu...%20english<br>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btgKk1ady...%20english

[Raditzu]

Its quite refreshing to hear something set to an orchestral background.

The video was pretty cool too, actually.