2 NE1 Dance Covers

I really did not have any featured dancer here but I always liked the dance cover that Bekah did of 2NE1 Fire so I thought it would be neat to mix some dancers and create this neat little dance I just  added a few effects .  I figured since my Danjo and My Love and Joy were a big hits so why not do a K-pop song. I think doing mixes of different dancers doing a certain song will be a main stay for the Toru Takanuru channel this is still before the bumper so it is different from some of the videos. Of course this is not one of my favorites but it was good practice that I needed to learn on making an entertaining video. This was edited with windows Movie Maker.

Julia I love Rock N Roll!

Julia Rock N Roll
 I remember it was a dreary day when I made this I wanted to know if I could mix the track without vocals with Julia to give it a good sound. I think I was more concerned about the sound then the visual. I had to do some tricks to match the lip syncing which was changed because of the mixing. I wanted to do one close up on a feature that think is beautiful on Julia and that was her lips. I know now my mixing skills are a little bit better but I got to live a little bit of my dream which was to mix a song for Julia Bernard well maybe one of these days I will get to actually sit behind a Mixing board with Julia in a Sound booth maybe one of these day will see. This video was edited with Studio Pinnacle and the Music was mixed with Pro tools and I was a new user.

Julia (Aralka1234) Boom Test Video ジュリアブーム！A commentary

This is my first attempt to comment on videos as they reach a year anniversary. The title is called Julia (AraIka1234) Boom Test Video. First the Title is much different then most of the videos I have done. Test why would test be in it well its because P.O.D. Boom was not supposed to be the song that I was going to use. The idea was to have a mix of songs like maybe two or three to make one song. I only put P.O.D.'s song to see if I coud edit her footage then replace it with another song. This is before my Chroma Key days so you really do not see much outstanding effects in this video the song however fits well. I know many know Julia as the sweet young lady we know of today but at the time there was controversy regarding her I think many of us avoided her because she did seem to frighten us and we did not understand if she was challenging other dancers at the time or if that what was how people thought of her that way. Let me explain when I first started to do this I never really heard of the word collaboration many people would do split screens and say this is one dancer vs another dancer you do not see that now you see a lot of collaborations. I was probably one of the first who saw this as a bad thing. The dancers had enough criticsm, it was the last thing they really needed was someone putting them up against each other like cage fighters about to square off in Thunder Dome. You see of all the Versus videos Julia Bernard had the most there was Julia Vs Becky and Julia vs Kozue and it was not good. Then it got worse Julia became a member of the short lived project called  Cute Ribbons Project this was after about six members had committed to Cruel Angels Project. Cute Ribbon had almost all my favorite dancers in there. Someone had posted on a blog "We are cuter and We are better dancers then the Cruel Angels" Regardless of all the Drama, Julia was cute and a good singer and really fascinated me of her passion about learning about other cultures.

It did not take me long to start watching her videos and her honesty and passion helped me become a true supporter of her. I felt that under all that softness there was a tough person who was not going to give up on her dreams. The song I picked "Boom" I think it was meant to be. The song worked in my video. She proved to me to be the that person with the "Bring It ON" attitude because I am willing to to go up against anything type person .

The most seen effect in my video is the 3-d ripple effect and this was done with Windows Movie Maker.

It's Getting more popular then you think.

SNL Skit from last night

I was sitting in bed when the skit first appeared on air. I knew there was this awful feeling that they were making fun of people I know. I am talking about the J-pop college mock show that aired last night on NBC of course. SNL really has not produced anything funny in a long time so I was not concerned about that. The thing that bothered me the most was the young lady did however have a Beckii Cruel like persona as though whoever wrote the skit had a familiarity with the J-pop dancing growing fans. After having a good night sleep I realised this was the same show who mocked white kids for acting like black kids . In those days you would here the term Wigger which is a just about as scary as Weeaboo or however you spell it because I doubt you will be able to find both words in a dictionary. I think if you really want to insult me actually use a real word.
 I really can relate to a younger generation wanting to find music that they can relate to I mean popular music especially Hip-hop has become dull dry and boring it really has over stayed its welcome. I myself cannot Identify it. if it is truly the music of the streets? Then keep  it on the streets how many times do I have to hear the recycled version of 80's music with cuss words laced over it. I see young ladies who want to be cute and why not? Why should they have to conform to something they do not like. I grew up in the country and I hated country music every note sounded whiny in my ear, I listened to Rock and then Hip-Hop but after while you want to broaden your spectrum a little bit. Is there anything wrong with that? Why should I be stuck listening to certain type of music if I was born in a certain country, why should I be stuck listening to certain kind of music? Elvis was Hated for singing "Negro" Music.Some rappers still get poked fun at for Rapping because they are white and some are laughing now to the bank My question is whats wrong with blending cultures together in a for the sake of art trust me the Japanese are not going to shoot you if you blend country music and J-pop together there is nothing wrong with that many people keep on forgetting on how much Walt Disney has inspired the world of Japanese Anime or how are Industrial Metal is an Inspiration for J-rock.
 On a positive note you have to say that to be mentioned on Saturday Night Live is a good thing to be able to be noticed shows you how well the movement has grown. It probably won't be long til you see groups like Danceroid on the television in America just you wait and see.
                                Toru!

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Which video version is better in the link it is important that you vote the fate of the future of youtube is at stake well not really but it would make me happy ;) Oh yeah leave your decision at the bottom of the comment section.

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