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--- lb:eurobeat [2026-05-03 10:41:14] – [Song Recommendations] ninjasr
+++ lb:eurobeat [2026-06-12 12:16:09] (current) – [Appeal] ninjasr
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 Now for a bit of a hard pivot.
+===== Appeal =====
+Eurobeat's appeal is easily summarized: Eurobeat is possibly the most internally cohesive musical genre ever. All Eurobeat songs sound similar to each-other, whilst remaining distinct. The songs all fit together in a way that makes it easy to go from one to another without pausing, or without it feeling like you're jumping from one to the next.((:fn:>It is more complicated than that of course, because you //can// differentiate songs from each-other. The point is more that on a ‘vibes’ level, all Eurobeat feels ‘related’, which grants a huge advantage to the genre and all the artists producing for it.))
+Because of how similar Eurobeat songs are to each-other, it's actually really easy to find new songs without sticking to just one artist. And if you're a fan of ‘Eurobeat’ then you're unlikely to be sticking to just one particular artist. So there's an endless well of Eurobeat to discover and listen to.
+Putting aside those more meta notes...Eurobeat is also very high-energy, so if you're into that...it just makes you feel all good and happy. I think that only [[lb:s3rl]] rouses similar feelings of positivity. At least in me.
+It also helps that Eurobeat is the genre of [[lb:gyaru]].
 ===== Association =====
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 This association becomes somewhat obvious when you start factoring in:
-  * Songs, which inexplicably reference ParaPara and Gyaru with some degree of frequency.((:fn:><cite>Money Money</cite>, <cite>Ganguro</cite>, <cite>Hello Hello</cite>.))
+  * Songs, which inexplicably reference ParaPara and Gyaru with some degree of frequency.((:fn:><cite>Money Money</cite>, <cite>Ganguro</cite>, <cite>Hello Hello</cite>.))((:fn:>Popteen (formerly a major Gyaru magazine) has a Eurobeat themesong called <cite>Popteen</cite>.))
   * Songs which are focused around specific dance clubs which, coincidentally, were focused around ParaPara and catered to Gyaru.((:fn:><cite>Velfarre 2000</cite>...Velfarre has a bunch actually. SEF is another one. If you're interested, the ParaPara wiki collects official club ParaPara productions.))
   * Excluding <cite>Super Eurobeat</cite>, the album art for many compilations features stylized gyaru.((:fn:><cite>Vintage ParaPara</cite>; <cite>Ultra ParaPara Dance (Nonstop Mix)</cite>; <cite>Campus Summit 2007</cite>. Granted, those are all ParaPara themed.))
   * You could even count all the pretty obvious references to Japan.((:fn:><cite>No One Sleep in Tokyo</cite>; <cite>Go Shinkansen</cite>; <cite>Japan Japan</cite>.))
-This can be considered cherry-picking, I guess...but I legitimately think the association is stronger.
+This can be considered cherry-picking, I guess...but I legitimately think the association is stronger. And as time continues to go on, I feel this more and more strongly every day.
 ===== Song Recommendations =====
 In this section I'll be listing a bunch of songs I like, in no particular order. It's all YouTube embeds, which is why you need to click to show them.
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