Japanese City Pop Reaction - Love Was Really Gone by Makoto Matsushita (松下誠)

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8 ай бұрын

Another City Pop reaction for you. Love Was Really Gone by Makoto Matsushita.
I do not own the rights to this song; this video is purely for reaction and educational purposes.
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@user-qz3vn1xk2c 8 ай бұрын

his entire discography is amazing, a jazzier city pop artist

@Choutas 7 ай бұрын

The song is mythical.

@alloallie 6 ай бұрын

Oh man, it made me listen to his amazing discograph. I think Makoto is my favourite City Pop artist now.

@brianchar-bow3273 5 ай бұрын

The younger generation of the Japanese public at that time appreciated their music, bought their albums, and enjoyed them. I think it was the Japanese music industry and TV media of the time that did not give them much coverage because they wanted to protect their vested interests in the music industry by selling big-name singers and idols from before that time. They used them as players, composers, and arrangers behind the scenes, keeping them away from TV and other media and preventing from the talented musicians as new forces growing. Therefore, their music was enthusiastically supported only by some young people, but was unknown and did not penetrate the general public of a wide generation. And it was the Western music industry and labels that assisted the old powers as well. Many Japanese musicians, because of their musical roots, naturally dreamed of working in the Western and global markets. However, Western labels have spectacularly ignored Japanese musicians, and they have not had the opportunity to sign sales contracts for their works in the West, and even to release them.　If their works had been distributed overseas in real time during their heyday, some of them might have been very successful. If that had happened, their reputation and the way they were treated in Japan would have changed 180 degrees. (The fact is that even like Tatsuro Yamashita, Masayoshi Takanaka, and Mariya Takeuchi could not get contracts outside Japan.)　 With the advent of the Internet after the millennium, the environment changed, and their works did not receive the recognition they deserved until they came into direct contact with the ears of people in the world without going through a label. Undervalued and limited in both the overseas and Japanese markets, some of them continued to make a living by providing music for video games, animation, and movies that had grown up in Japan since the 1990s, as a sideline for their daily lives. Today, when people around the world listen to JPOP, J-Jazz, J-Metal, etc., they are told that their music resembles Japanese video game music or is like anime music, but that is the opposite of the order of occurrence of the facts.

@brianchar-bow3273 7 ай бұрын

"Love Was Really Gone" (1981) MAKOTO MATSUSHITA(JPN/ ex-AB's) (Lyrics: Makoto Matsushita, Judy Anton, Music composed by Makoto Matsushita) From his 1st album "FIRST LIGHT" Released on September 21, 1981　 Produced by Makoto Matsushita & Toshio Oguri.　 All tracks composed, arranged by Makoto Matsushita Lyrics We tried to make our love a place we belong To stay together all the way Your love would seem to be the cause of my tone We never really knew the changes Love could take us through All the way I know how much you tried All the same You never stayed to see its ending You always wanted to take more of me than I own But what I’ve got I gave to you I don’t know what to make of where we went wrong We played with time How long could such a foolish game go on? Can’t you see I’m trying to get through Can’t you feel My heart is ready to be parted (Hey) Love was really gone Love was really gone Oh, am I gettin' trou? (Hey) Love was really gone Love was really gone Oh, my think of where your heart is I'll be searching Love is shining I will come through To be with you We tried to make our love a place we belong To stay together all the way Your love would seem to be the cause of my tone We never really knew the changes Love could take us through Can’t you see I’m trying to get through Can’t you feel My heart is ready to be parted (Hey) Love was really gone Love was really gone (Hey) Love was really gone Love was really gone (Hey) Love was really gone Love was really gone - First Light 　(Lyrics Music　: Makoto Matsushita) - One Hot Love 　(Lyrics: Akiko Matsushita, Music: Makoto Matsushita) - Resort For Blue　 (Music: Makoto Matsushita) - September Rain 　(Lyrics: Kyoko Utsumi, Music: Makoto Matsushita) - Lazy Night 　(Lyrics by Makoto Matsushita) - This Is All I Have For You　 (Lyrics: Makoto Matsushita, Akiko Matsushita, Music: Makoto Matsushita) - I Know... (Lyrics: Makoto Matsushita) - Love Was Really Gone　(Lyrics: Makoto Matsushita, Judy Anton, Music: Makoto Matsushita) - Sunset (Lyrics, Music: Makoto Matsushita) (Musicians) Makoto Matsushita: Guitar, Lead Vocals (ex-AB's) Yasuo Tomikura: Bass, Footless Bass Yasuhiro Miyazaki: Drums Kazuo Nobuta: Keyboards, Fender Rhodes, Acoustic Piano, Prophet 5 Hidetoshi Yamada: Keyboards, Fender Rhodes, Acoustic Piano Masao Matsuda: Fender Rhodes Haruo Togashi: OBX Makoto Kimura: Percussion Susumu Kazuhara: fugelhorn Joe Kato Group: Strings EVE, Eiji Kawamura: Chorus

@omari2306 Ай бұрын

Your reactions are spot on, on what i think about Makoto Matsushita's discography! Keep going bro, your channel will surely grow.

@tdotbebop Ай бұрын

Appreciate it bro

@SequentialCircuitProphet5 5 ай бұрын

In 1981 this album had good critics but few sellings. You can compare Mokoto to Christopher Cross: same vibes, not so interested by medias, the way he's playing guitars...Now, abroad Japan, this album is condiderate as a masterpiece. One of my favorite album. This song, on freeway, is a must to crusing, or having a love dinner ❤

@Temalechu 2 ай бұрын

Great song choice🤌

@fvc1612 Ай бұрын

🤨🤌!

@alloallie 7 ай бұрын

I think I need to listen to the rest of the album. Geez, this would fit right at home on a James Ingram or Jeffrey Osbourne album. Those delicious bass lines and guitar licks are amazing. The "moment to breathe" is a feature of 70s and 80s jazz and jazz fusion, by the way, which city pop incorporated.

@cacaisaac 2 ай бұрын

please do, that whole "first light" album is perfection

@alloallie 19 күн бұрын

@@cacaisaac I did....and it's gorgeous ! OMG !

@mariosanchezmartel6431 3 ай бұрын

One hot love is another banger

@Miracle010181 6 ай бұрын

Such a genuine reaction. Thank you❤ Would be nice to see your reaction to pretty much any of Makoto Matsushita's songs

@tdotbebop 6 ай бұрын

Thanks! I need more suggestions of his tbh. Have loads from Tatsuro Yamashita and Toshiki Kadomatsu

@alloallie 6 ай бұрын

@@tdotbebop Piggybacking to suggest "September Rain" or "Carnaval", which definitely sounds very samba-ish. Something like the jazz artist Yutaka Yokukura would do.