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Eurobeat
Eurobeat is a genreA) of music that originated in Italy. Apparently, its original purpose was just to speed up ItaloDisco.B) Eurobeat then, inexplicably, became popular in Japan.
Following this, the Italians decided that it was most reasonable to market almost exclusively to the Japanese. So the majority of Eurobeat out there was created by Italians for the Japanese. This is also why Avex, a Japanese record company, somehow produced a bunch of albums with Italians.
This is also why the rights to basically all Eurobeat is owned by AvexâŚdespite Eurobeat being made by Italians.
Thereâs also a related genre called Hyper Techno which isâŚsomething.
Now for a bit of a hard pivot.
Appeal
Eurobeatâs appeal is easily summarized: Eurobeat is possibly the most internally cohesive musical genres 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 youâre jumping from one to the next.C)
Because of how similar Eurobeat songs are to each-other, itâs actually really easy to find new songs without sticking to just one artist. And if youâre a fan of âEurobeatâ then youâre unlikely to be sticking to just one particular artist. So thereâs an endless well of Eurobeat to discover and listen to.
Putting aside those more meta notesâŚEurobeat is also very high-energy, so if youâre into thatâŚit just makes you feel all good and happy. I think that only S3RL rouses similar feelings of positivity.
It also helps that Eurobeat is the genre of Gyaru.
Association
This is mostly a hypothesis on my end, so take this with a grain of salt. But yes, I will be treating it like a conspiracy theory.
In the West, Eurobeat is primarily associated with racing, cars, street-racing and, of course, InitialD. However, this is not the case in Japan. The association definitely exists, but it isnât as strong asâŚ
I think this mostly has to do with ParaPara, which itself was liked by GyaruâŚand the fact there were prominent dance clubs in Japan which were focused entirely around Eurobeat.
This association becomes somewhat obvious when you start factoring in:
- Songs which are focused around specific dance clubs which, coincidentally, were focused around ParaPara and catered to Gyaru.F)
- Excluding Super Eurobeat, the album art for many compilations features stylized gyaru.G)
- You could even count all the pretty obvious references to Japan.H)
This can be considered cherry-picking, I guessâŚbut 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 Iâll be listing a bunch of songs I like, in no particular order. Itâs all YouTube embeds, which is why you need to click to show them.
List the Recommendations
Trivilinks
- I discovered this only recently so I canât say much in regards to quality.