This is a great entertaining video 👍 Also i want to share a interesting fact with the two songs (Band Mo Brand and OGL), so the producer of those songs was actually Yoav Landau (from The Living Tombstone/Koolfox), the same person who made the Remix of Throw it in a bag. Honestly cool that MC Melody Doll decided to contact Yoav if he's down to making the instrumentals for those songs because of a remix he made.
I’m only 7 minutes in and this video is making me so happy and comforted. I’m learning stuff I didn’t know before! I’m definitely going to be binge watching ur vids! 💕
I missed this era since I joined lolita/attend anime conventions only within the last 5 years or so. The equivalent for me to that Gwen song was Hello Kitty by Avril Lavigne.... I think it has the same vibes. I had a highschool teacher tell me that it would be my theme song. Owch. I didn't shut up about anime but it still hurt lmao. Love your hair in this video btw!
I really appreciated this mega nostalgic video. At age 16-17-18 I was hugely into X-Japan and my best friend and I traveled over the Dutch Belgium border to go to Antwerp to buy official X-Japan CDs. She downloaded and burnt anime OSTs and random J-POP onto CDs for us. When I was 19 (2003) I found out about lolita fashion and started checking out visual kei bands as well. My best friend sadly never took a personal interest in lolita fashion but she's still a good friend.
@@OKBloomer I had 2 huge cardboard boxes of CDs and CDROMs that I "marie Kondo-ed" in 2020, I got rid of a lot of CDs most of which were copies from CDs owned by friends. My best friend pretty frequently burnt songs we were into at the time (when we were 16~20) onto CDs and started calling them "insert name here's mix volume so and so". On one CD there could be a few disney songs, Star Wars music, J-pop, anime intros, J-rock and songs from the radio we were into at the time. There's this one CD where it starts with a few Star Wars songs, then Vegeta's theme, followed by "Prince Ali" (1992 Aladdin), followed by "Ms. Jackson" (OutKast), followed by "Super Drive" (from the anime Gravitation). It's a bit like a time capsule. My best friend never got into lolita fashion and I never got into the "boys love" stuff that she was into. So maybe that's fair.
@@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118 omg I haven't thought of gravitation in years! Yeah i had a boys love phase in high school, glad i grew out of it though. I liked making mixes for my car, so many burned CDs!
@@OKBloomer So many teenage girls had a BL phase but it seems to have skipped me over. I had a hypothesis that it was a way to enjoy certain content in a way that felt less confrontational than ero/romantic heteronormative content. She also became a fan of japanese boy bands and wanted to talk for hours about Kanjani8, Kat-tun and Arashi. I still regret that I poked fun at her for it sometimes, lighthearted fun but still. At my current age I think "why couldn't I just have let her enjoy her flower boy stuff in peace?". I recently checked out a title that she liked back in the day, it's called "Loveless", and yikes it's so sad, dark and depressing. But that's just the kind of stuff that some teens and young adults like I suppose.
trauma POP CORE. i learned from an _actual_ gothic lolita that traumacore itself _is_ a THING. Melanie may fit. i know that Nicole Dollanganger is considered "traumacore".
I used to buy CDs from Kinokuniya in the 90s and early 00s. I did keep the CDs after I ripped them. It was expensive but not as expensive as buying them from cons!
This was very interesting to watch! I have been in and out lolita fashion since 2004 but overall disconnected from the community. It is nice to have these down memory lane moments once in a while. I had my moments of looking for lolita music from wherever I could find. Besides j rock bands, some solists and duos like Moon Kana, Nana Kitade, Kyari Pamyu Pamyu, Kanon Wakeshima, Zaq, Kokusyoku Sumire, Ali Project and Kalafina were greatly influenced by the fashion at some point (and also contributed to the scene). As for non japanese artists, my overall favorite is Lolita KompleX, because they keep being loyal to the lolita aesthetic and also are influenced by some themes popular within the fashion. If you are more into dark cabaret music, Rosie Roulette used to be part of the lolita scene as well, although not any more in recent years.
You’ve already brought up two repressed memories. One was paying $40 for a CD at an anime convention in 2003 which still hurts to this day. But on the flip side, someone left their copy of L.A.M.B. outside of Sam Goody and they let me keep it. Loved the production on a lot of the tracks and the Alice in Wonderland aesthetic of the What You Waiting for? music video. But lmao Harajuku girls was always cringe to me even as an equally embarrassing teen weeb. Like is grown adult Gwen Stefani really trying to explain to me what “kawaii” means right now?😭
Right?? Like, she's 52 now (Honestly good for her, she's stunning), so she would have been 34ish at that time! Mid life weeb crisis? And yeah WYWF is still a jam, the rest of the album is just... eh.
I spent 43 euro on a Bubblegum Crisis Hurricane Live VHS in 2003. It was such a huge dent to my wallet since jobs for teenagers paid so little where I live. And then I got home eager to watch it, turns out there was a "lucky luke" vhs inside and I had to cycle back to the store on the other side of town in 35C weather to get the correct tape. I totally agree with you about Gwen Stefani.
@@OKBloomer Haha, yeah. It was a small comic book store in my city run by just one guy. He put empty VHS boxes out for people to browse and kept the VHS tapes in a cupboard, then after a sale he would grab the corresponding tape and put it in the VHS box. It just so happens he grabbed the wrong one.
I loved this video, I thibk out if yours I'd pick the JSR ost. I started in that era around 2012. I don't really listen to lolita specific music, getting ready I listen to Final Fantasy music if I need to calm and jpop or anime music if I need to be hyped up to be social (if it made sense?). Perfume is usually the one I hear at meets.
Yes, i get it! Jpop and anime songs tend to be really upbeat and high tempo, where final fantasy/video game background music can be more orchestral and ambient. The jsr soundtrack is still so good 😹
white lolitas i am sorry but i think we can all collectively let go of gwen as an "example" here. (speaking as a diasporic Pilipnx person presently living on Dakota land occupied by the settler-colonial genocider U.S.)
This is a great entertaining video 👍
Also i want to share a interesting fact with the two songs (Band Mo Brand and OGL), so the producer of those songs was actually Yoav Landau (from The Living Tombstone/Koolfox), the same person who made the Remix of Throw it in a bag.
Honestly cool that MC Melody Doll decided to contact Yoav if he's down to making the instrumentals for those songs because of a remix he made.
I’m only 7 minutes in and this video is making me so happy and comforted. I’m learning stuff I didn’t know before! I’m definitely going to be binge watching ur vids! 💕
Aww thank you so much!
I missed this era since I joined lolita/attend anime conventions only within the last 5 years or so. The equivalent for me to that Gwen song was Hello Kitty by Avril Lavigne.... I think it has the same vibes. I had a highschool teacher tell me that it would be my theme song. Owch. I didn't shut up about anime but it still hurt lmao. Love your hair in this video btw!
Thank you!! Yeah that song is uh
... Well, if hot topic was a song? 😹
I really appreciated this mega nostalgic video. At age 16-17-18 I was hugely into X-Japan and my best friend and I traveled over the Dutch Belgium border to go to Antwerp to buy official X-Japan CDs. She downloaded and burnt anime OSTs and random J-POP onto CDs for us.
When I was 19 (2003) I found out about lolita fashion and started checking out visual kei bands as well. My best friend sadly never took a personal interest in lolita fashion but she's still a good friend.
Aww! Yeah my cycle of friends definitely did that to an extent, just discs loaded up with dozens of mp3s of varying quality 😹
@@OKBloomer I had 2 huge cardboard boxes of CDs and CDROMs that I "marie Kondo-ed" in 2020, I got rid of a lot of CDs most of which were copies from CDs owned by friends. My best friend pretty frequently burnt songs we were into at the time (when we were 16~20) onto CDs and started calling them "insert name here's mix volume so and so". On one CD there could be a few disney songs, Star Wars music, J-pop, anime intros, J-rock and songs from the radio we were into at the time. There's this one CD where it starts with a few Star Wars songs, then Vegeta's theme, followed by "Prince Ali" (1992 Aladdin), followed by "Ms. Jackson" (OutKast), followed by "Super Drive" (from the anime Gravitation). It's a bit like a time capsule.
My best friend never got into lolita fashion and I never got into the "boys love" stuff that she was into. So maybe that's fair.
@@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118 omg I haven't thought of gravitation in years! Yeah i had a boys love phase in high school, glad i grew out of it though. I liked making mixes for my car, so many burned CDs!
@@OKBloomer So many teenage girls had a BL phase but it seems to have skipped me over. I had a hypothesis that it was a way to enjoy certain content in a way that felt less confrontational than ero/romantic heteronormative content. She also became a fan of japanese boy bands and wanted to talk for hours about Kanjani8, Kat-tun and Arashi. I still regret that I poked fun at her for it sometimes, lighthearted fun but still. At my current age I think "why couldn't I just have let her enjoy her flower boy stuff in peace?".
I recently checked out a title that she liked back in the day, it's called "Loveless", and yikes it's so sad, dark and depressing. But that's just the kind of stuff that some teens and young adults like I suppose.
I just found your channel and I love learning about this!! ❤
Your hair looks so pretty♡ I missed the whole 2010-2015 era so thanks for filling us in
Thank you! It was a good curl day
greAt video...love malice mizer...did you ever listen to antique cafe...
I didn't, no! I didn't listen to a lot of jrock, really
trauma POP CORE. i learned from an _actual_ gothic lolita that traumacore itself _is_ a THING. Melanie may fit. i know that Nicole Dollanganger is considered "traumacore".
Primadonna Girl is my lolita hype-up song for sure. I usually listen to it getting ready for meets.
I used to buy CDs from Kinokuniya in the 90s and early 00s. I did keep the CDs after I ripped them. It was expensive but not as expensive as buying them from cons!
This was very interesting to watch! I have been in and out lolita fashion since 2004 but overall disconnected from the community. It is nice to have these down memory lane moments once in a while.
I had my moments of looking for lolita music from wherever I could find. Besides j rock bands, some solists and duos like Moon Kana, Nana Kitade, Kyari Pamyu Pamyu, Kanon Wakeshima, Zaq, Kokusyoku Sumire, Ali Project and Kalafina were greatly influenced by the fashion at some point (and also contributed to the scene). As for non japanese artists, my overall favorite is Lolita KompleX, because they keep being loyal to the lolita aesthetic and also are influenced by some themes popular within the fashion. If you are more into dark cabaret music, Rosie Roulette used to be part of the lolita scene as well, although not any more in recent years.
I actually got a good friend who isn't a lolita but is a rapper into MC Melody Doll! Buy Mo' Brand is her best song!
You’ve already brought up two repressed memories. One was paying $40 for a CD at an anime convention in 2003 which still hurts to this day. But on the flip side, someone left their copy of L.A.M.B. outside of Sam Goody and they let me keep it. Loved the production on a lot of the tracks and the Alice in Wonderland aesthetic of the What You Waiting for? music video. But lmao Harajuku girls was always cringe to me even as an equally embarrassing teen weeb. Like is grown adult Gwen Stefani really trying to explain to me what “kawaii” means right now?😭
Right?? Like, she's 52 now (Honestly good for her, she's stunning), so she would have been 34ish at that time! Mid life weeb crisis? And yeah WYWF is still a jam, the rest of the album is just... eh.
I spent 43 euro on a Bubblegum Crisis Hurricane Live VHS in 2003. It was such a huge dent to my wallet since jobs for teenagers paid so little where I live. And then I got home eager to watch it, turns out there was a "lucky luke" vhs inside and I had to cycle back to the store on the other side of town in 35C weather to get the correct tape.
I totally agree with you about Gwen Stefani.
@@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118 oh geez, that sucks! At least they let you exchange it.
@@OKBloomer Haha, yeah. It was a small comic book store in my city run by just one guy. He put empty VHS boxes out for people to browse and kept the VHS tapes in a cupboard, then after a sale he would grab the corresponding tape and put it in the VHS box. It just so happens he grabbed the wrong one.
So what about nana kitade? She was a lolita making loli punk. Still active and sometimes wears lolita, even with novala takemoto
Yes! She has a great style. I didn't listen to her really, but I definitely remember seeing her featured in GLBs and kera magazine.
Nightcore, unlike all those other cores, is speeded up and higher-pitched versions of other songs (I learned this from MLP fans)
I loved this video, I thibk out if yours I'd pick the JSR ost.
I started in that era around 2012. I don't really listen to lolita specific music, getting ready I listen to Final Fantasy music if I need to calm and jpop or anime music if I need to be hyped up to be social (if it made sense?). Perfume is usually the one I hear at meets.
Yes, i get it! Jpop and anime songs tend to be really upbeat and high tempo, where final fantasy/video game background music can be more orchestral and ambient.
The jsr soundtrack is still so good 😹
@@OKBloomer Yeah just depends where I am in my head.
I still listen to JSR like walking to work and replay it once a year it's such a fantastic game.
Loved the video
why are so many not nice you are jeales becuse the are famous. and its about woman woow.
I like LaLisa’s Money!
18:42 /crying about cooking with dog
white lolitas i am sorry but i think we can all collectively let go of gwen as an "example" here. (speaking as a diasporic Pilipnx person presently living on Dakota land occupied by the settler-colonial genocider U.S.)