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Well, it doesn't hurt to tell this story again, I think - and after all, it makes me feel nostalgic, and I love feeling nostalgic.
I was a big fan of Chrono Cross a while back (still am, actually) - I loved that game to death and played it through a whole lot of times. On top of that, I've always loved game soundtracks. I also had the Chrono Cross soundtrack and gave the thing lots and lots of spins - but always skipping the one regular vocal track on it, 'Radical dreamers ~unstolen jewel~', since I somehow figured I wouldn't like it anyway. In any case, I was listening to the soundtrack some day and forgot to skip that very track - and my god, was I happy to have forgot to do that! What I heard was a tremendously beautiful song, with beautiful, astonishing vocals. I went and looked for information on the song and who did the vocals, and came up with a name: Noriko Mitose. However, I didn't find a whole lot of info on her, and certainly no music by her. I did want to find more music like this though, and somehow figured 'would this be Jpop?', having heard the term being used once and not paying attention to it. I ran a search on KaZaA (yes, still had KaZaA back then) for 'Jpop' and came up with a number of songs. I randomly downloaded a few and then I heard Ayu's Seasons and Immature. Absolutely BRILLIANT. I deleted all the other Jpop and started downloading more and more by Ayu - I immediately got addicted. Bought her albums soon after. Can remember it like it was yesterday - I can still pinpoint the exact day I downloaded those songs: April 18th, 2003 - it was a Sunday, if I'm not mistaken. About five o' clock in the afternoon.
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