「好きと嫌い」- Lieben en Dislike!

もしもし、The Scrappy Crabbyをご覧の皆さん、ariyaです!

今回の話は「好きー嫌い」の問題です。
Talking about like and dislike, I am wondering about from where it comes recently. Wanna know my favorites? No? Well, I just don't care about what you want. Just let me mention some of them here;

1. Dir en Grey

A Japanese metal band | Die (gt.) | Toshiya (ba.)|Kyo (vo.)| Shinya (dr.)| Kaoru (gt.)

I usually don't really like loud voices, but Dir en Grey is just GREAT! Their music is... seemingly... deep and dark(?)

Oh well, I often got swallowed by Kyo's enchanting deep and heavy voices and the sounds from Shinya's drumset. 

Try listening to Vinushka and Namamekashiki Ansoku, Tamerai ni Hohoemi (Unplugged ver.). They're my favorites!

2. ONE OK ROCK

Still, Japanese band. Rock band. 

Ryota (ba.) | Toru (gt.) | Taka (vo.) | Tomoya (dr.)

First met: Rurouni Kenshin Live Action movie's ending song - The Beginning.

this band is somehow so... western-based(?)

but I love their music and lyrics! 

While Dir en Grey may own such a negative lyrics in their songs, ONE OK ROCK is always giving motivations. Perhaps, because Taka as the lyricist had experienced 'bad' past life so he wants to deliver good messages through his songs?

Well, さあー

I don't really know much about music, actually. Just a free-listener. Yet, My preferences in music is so... what is it... different?

I know there're billions of girls who love metal/rock/underground music as well, so i won't compel that girl means pop music.. 

But, why me? why Dir en grey? why ONE OK ROCK?

3. Takeru Satoh

Japanese actor. Rurouni Kenshin | Bitter Blood | Kanojo wa Uso wo Aisugiteru | Q10 | Bakuman

When I first noticed him, I was so fond of Haruma Miura, his partner in Bloody Monday. Their charms were so overlapping as I thought that Haru-chan's way too stand out there!

Nevertheless, the more I know him, the more I adore him so much. Even more than Haru-chan, now, if I may say. There is one good saying in Javanese that may fit this condition:

witing tresno jalaran soko kulino...

my translation of this proverb is that you love something because you have been used to it.

Now, I think there is one thing shared/owned by all those above mentioned people: strength. They all have strong willpower, strong determination, they hate losing, and they are all working hard. 

Is it the reason why?

In case you're wondering about me, I'm an Indonesian. My interests in Japan have been highly influenced by my sister, actually. 

So,
How can I be so Japanese-oriented this whole time? How can I love DIR EN GREY and ONE OK ROCK so much and just cannot love some other bands that much?

When it comes to the discussion about interest, I believe that people cannot influence other’s interest to something. I once wrote:

「It is true that other people can influence us and vice versa, but at last, it is us who decide everything on our own judgment. All what we have to do is to “go with what [our] heart tells [us]”

で、how come we can be interested in one thing and not in the other thing? Can anyone answer this question, please?

Okay, that's all. ariya でした。