Music & Me

 

Hi, I'm Tera Nguyen! I was born in this very state and grew up in Boiling Springs. I've never moved into anywhere else so far. I often do various things during my free time, but the ones I do most often are anime games, reading their stories, and roleplaying existing characters online! I also often like to listen to music during car drives.

I consider my music tastes to be unorthodox, though. Even after taking Chorus for multiple years before college, and even after dancing in a dance cover group for a few years, I still can't help but deviate to around the same kinds of Jpop and Kpop songs most of the time. Primarily Jpop nowadays, though.

Songs

1. One of my favorite songs is "TA" by Stray Kids! I find it to be a very, very catchy song, and I frequently jam to it and feel tempted to dance whenever it comes up in a playlist - even more than with many other songs I like. It's enjoyable to recognize everyone's voices and listen to how each one of them sings/raps their parts as well~ It sometimes even reminds me of their growth as artists, since their improvement compared to back then vaguely shows through in this song. 

There's no English subtitles, though. So you'll have to search up the translated lyrics if you're curious about them. Sorry!

 

2. A song that's personally meaningful to me is "Hanauta" by Alexandros. I first discovered it over a year ago in a fandom ship animatic, and fell in love with both the song and animatic in an instant. I'm especially in love with the song's beautiful combination of vocals and musical accompaniment - along with how well it highlights the deep, melancholic feeling of the overall animatic's story and cinematography. It especially came to mean to me more, too, with how this animatic was the very first animatic I ever watched of both its respective ship and respective fandom. The ship was the very first one that I've ever been able to hold dear to myself in years, too. So even in present day, I can't help but deeply associate this song with that animatic, and I still look at both of them and the ship with fondness. 

So here's the original song! Like with the previous song, though, you'll have to look up the English translated lyrics if you want to read them. They are nice lyrics, though. Here's also the animatic I mentioned in case you'd like to see it as well: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1TK4y1j7cH (If you do check it out, do click the little TV icon with the checkmark at the bottom of the video to turn off the bullet comments~)

3. There's unfortunately a few or more genres I can never understand nor connect with, however. One of them is rap. Even though I do enjoy rap when incorporated with vocals most of the time, I can't find myself to enjoy songs with just rapping at all. Especially whenever it's too vulgar, or whenever it lacks too much depth or storytelling. It's just difficult to find anything enjoyable to listen to in pure rap at all. Here's a good example of what I mean (even including a common beat that I admittedly dislike, due to repeatedly hearing it from peers throughout my childhood): 

4. I'll be discussing a bonus song as well~! "Failure Girl" by KairikiBear is another one of my favorite songs that I heavily considered placing in the second category. To put it shortly; it's a very enjoyable song to listen to, but its lyrics are the most noteworthy part of it all. I love the lyrics so much, and I especially love how well they and the rest of the song portray this specific, awful sense of feeling unwanted. I've even found myself deeply resonating with this and finding comfort in it whenever I felt deeply unloved or disliked by people. And I genuinely hope this song can provide the same sense of resonance and comfort to even more people, too.

Note that this is unlike the other songs, as this one is from the Vocaloid side of Jpop culture instead. So the vocals are purely sung by a voice synthesizing software called a Vocaloid - for this specific case, Hatsune Miku. So if you end up finding this song too difficult to listen to for any reason, you can try listening to Oktavia's English cover of it instead! 

Anyway, that's all! Thank you so much for putting in the time to read all of this if you did. And I do hope I didn't sound overly formal or unpleasant at any point in this blog as well. Have a good day now!