Sunday, 2 December 2007

Taiwanese Nada Souou Video and Lyrics

Looking through my site stats for the past few months I've been amazed that over 80% of visitors to my site have come from Yahoo or Google searches involving BEGIN's song, Nada SouSou (Tears for You).

To give the public more of what they want I'm going to do a series of Nada SouSou posts on the different language versions including the music videos (if available), singer information and lyrics (if I can find them).

First up is the Taiwanese version which I had posted in the original Nada SouSou post. YouTube has since removed that video so here's the new link, Nada SouSou Taiwanese Version

The singer's name is 蔡淳佳 which can be read as Joi Chua or Cai Chun Jia. In Taiwanese the title is "陪我看日出" though I can't tell you if the meaning was kept.

Does anyone have the lyrics? If so please let me know. I would love to post them.

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Labels: Chinese, English, Japanese, Music, Nada SouSou

Saturday, 25 August 2007

Nada SouSou : Japanese, English and Chinese Versions

After writing the recent post about the song, Jupiter being used in an Australian commercial I remembered how I had heard another famous Japanese song, Nada SouSou being played in The Body Shop in Shibuya though... in English. I'd been after any info about this English version for ages before it finally occurred to me to search for it on YouTube. Duh!

Not only did I find the Japanese and English versions (sung by a New Zealander no less!) but also a beautiful Chinese version! I simply love Chinese music. There's something in the way the language is used in music that always impresses me.

Here's the original Japanese version, Nada SouSou written by the group Begin lyrics by Ryoko Moriyama and sung by Rimi Natsukawa. Feed and Email Readers click here for the clip:

Anyway, here's the English version, Tears For You sung by, Hayley Westenra. Feed and Email Readers:

And now the Chinese version, Joi Chua Cai Chun Jia sung by Tsai Joi. Feed and Email:

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Labels: Chinese, English, Japanese, Music, Nada SouSou

Tuesday, 21 August 2007

"We wish England was Australia... or Jupiter?"

Just saw a new Australian commercial for Bundagerg Rum (Click here to view it) that has a lot of British people singing a song called "We wish England was Australia" which sounded REALLY familiar! It wasn't long until it ocurred to me that the song is actually to the tune of a Japanese hit that was released around the time I first came to Japan 3-4 years ago called Jupiter by Ayaka Hirahara.

Funnily enough I saw this song being used on a tv commercial when I was in Shanghai too.

It's a beautiful song which is why it's probably used so much. I just find it interesting that if I'd never come to Japan I would be completely ignorant of this bit of trivia.

Here's the song. Feeders and Email Readers Click here.