| 2018-07-20 |
10 |
Aimyon |
"マリーゴールド" |
single |
Aimyon is a 23-year-old Japanese singer. "マリーゴールド" is "Marigold" in Katakana, the Japanese alphabet used for spelling out non-Japanese words in Japanese syllables. Japanese doesn't distinguish between R and L sounds, and doesn't have syallables that end with consonant sounds, so "marigold" comes out "ma rii goo ru do". There's a lot of English in Japanese music, and the navigation header on Aimyon's web site is in English, even though "BIO" leads to a biography actually written in Japanese. By American standards Aimyon sounds like a structurally-unremarkable pop-rock singer, but by J-Pop production standards this is practically lo-fi. |
