Today i was mostly listening to japanese girl rock. (When not, i was learning Bugger off by the Real McKenzies, it’s quite hard to catch how the strumming goes in the acoustic part.) And by girl rock, for now, i don’t mean the kind of Blink-182 and ELLEGARDEN, which have huge teenage girl fanbase, but music by girls. In this case, japanese girls.

First, i was listening to YUI’s latest album, I loved yesterday on Grooveshark. Because their api is very slow updating, it’s not yet showing on my last.fm, but it will be there once. It’s really good, though not as much as Can’t buy my love. The song My generation earned a love very early on. In Can’t buy my love there are Thank you my teens and Happy birthday to you you which are quite similar topic–on I loved yesterday, Love is all and I will love you give me that feeling as well. Complement each other quite nice.

Then i was browsing around and stumbled upon SCANDAL, a four-girl highschool band from Osaka. I had trouble believing they are really high schoolers, their voice and looks seem much more mature (to put it simply, hot). And their music’s good. They have just one album so far, titled BEST★SCANDAL, released in 2008. It’s nice speedy pop-rock, really catchy. Also, 少女S got a love as well, i just couldn’t stop listening to it. Not only that, the whole album makes me want to stick with it for a very long time listening to nothing else. I guess that’s the point of pop. They are good.