The obligatory introduction post.

Hello, everyone. (All 2 of you, that is, you lucky ones who must have found this accidentally to be reading it so soon.) Sami here, bringing you the mandatory introductory post.

I love Japanese music and their culture in general (pop culture and otherwise). I've been blogging for a while now through Live Journal, however, inspired by Feed of Pop, I've decided to try a more "professional" blog (read: not saturated with personal business as well) to vent some of my thoughts on the Japanese music scene.

I can see this becoming a sort of "Swiss army knife" as far as Japan blogs go, though. My current plans are for general comments on anything from new releases to Oricon rankings, to album reviews, to the occasional download, to artist recommendations, and then some. But I shouldn't get ahead of myself just yet I suppose.

But yes, back to Japanese music. I'm familiar with many, many artists, and I personally follow quite a lot too. Don't believe me? My CD collection is well over 100, including artists such as (in no particular order) UVERworld, Utada Hikaru, Koda Kumi, L'Arc~en~Ciel, Daichi Miura, Ayumi Hamasaki, Gackt, Ai Otsuka, m.o.v.e, HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR, Namie Amuro, Miyavi, Mai Kuraki, Rina Aiuchi, Kagrra...heard enough, you say? That's not even all, but I think I've at least somewhat efficiently gotten my point across.

Needless to say, I support my artists. I download for sampling purposes only, deleting what I don't like and buying the rest. That's why this blog will feature very few downloads, if any. One now and then, if I happened to upload something for someone else, perhaps. Downloads were not the intention of this blog, but to express my thoughts. This is important.

Now, as for the name of this blog...despite whatever silly things I do with its appearance, the basic name is "nitropop", combining "nitro" (a word I've always liked that also happens to be the name of one of my favorite UVERworld songs) and "pop", obviously, for the focus on Japanese popular music and pop culture. That, and I thought that together as "nitropop" it had a neat sound to it.

And thus ends my introduction post. I think it's best to just keep any possible content separate from this, so I shall refrain from throwing any thoughts in here. Thank you for reading this far, those of you who actually might have done so. Here's to happy blogging!