Kanpaku Sengen

This song had very caught on at that time. Meanwhile, some women felt a
sense of aversion because, I think that from the beginning to middle of
lyric is raised a scandal particularly about women. It was in the late 70's
in Japan and there was a strong appeal for a society possessing gender
equality. However, I want you to listen to this song carefully, because this
song describes the mind of man who will get married at same point in the
future. In 1979, this song was released and sold 1.6million copies. But,
Masashi Sada said "It's not always true that a hit song is a good song". I
think so too because, I am one of the biggest admirers of B'z. They are very
famous, popular and they are this country's number one selling band in Asia.
They have many million-hit songs. These songs are very catchy but, they
often say similar things. "Hit songs don't go down because, people remember
so, we don't need to remember that" (B'z singer)

I think that Japanese music is weaker in terms of having deeply meant
lyrics, when compared to Western popular music. I mean that in a Western
song, the music is itself great but the lyrics are even more powerful
because the lyrics utilize many metaphoric expressions, and the lyrics are
very deeply concerned with [ ? ]. In contrast, the lyrics in Japanese pop
music are often poorly written.

I found very interesting article on the internet: "Recently, J-POP's lyrics
are very similar." Particularly, "stretch one's wings" "hover over cherry
blossoms" "I am weak" "close your eyes" and so on are found over and over
again. Therefore, it can be seen that Japanese singers are not so
accomplished at the composition of metaphoric expressions.

The Sound Of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel

This charming lyric is really hard for me because, it is described about
make-believe world. He probably was afraid of himself and shut his mind.
There was in complete darkness, his future vision was stealing up behind
him. What he wondered about, what he thought about there. I think that it
might be his future appearance or power of being given him. He was going to
touch "The Sound Of Silence " and become it. Moreover, he carried out
hearing his own words. Someday, he intended to catch his future, he would
definitely open his mind.

I think that this lyric usually touch on subjects that have a strong
emotional impact for people, especially, his first sentence "Hello darkness,
my old friends". I thought it was terrible or am more thrilling than scary,
because darkness is not being. It is very hard work to imagine something
that is not there. I really admired his ability of writing lyrics. In Japan,
a lot of singers sing about love, they do not try to write about sadness,
anger and pain. I often am wondering about singer who is able to write like
these lyrics is excellent singer. **

To be honestly, I do not understand what this lyric is good, but I cannot
help hearing because, they appeal to as many senses as possible.

Both Sides Now

First of all, I am far from a gentleman or dreamy person. I am very
practical. I have never thought of clouds and my life like this lyric, but,
well, clouds sometimes go change to varied shapes and show up in front of
us. It is very interesting to see attentively. Furthermore, I really admired
for after focusing on clouds, life is focused on like the former.

I thought that we university students especially sympathize a lot of parts
of this lyric of life, because, tears and fears and feeling proud, old
friends who are acting strange and they tell me that I have changed.
Absolutely, we lost and gained something in living every day. Moreover, we
have looked at life from win and lose. We really do not know our life at
all.

This lyric is very interesting, attractive and has class, because I was
deeply impressed by an instant about everyone may experience.（684 words/total 2159 words)