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YouTube カラオケ (music videos with Japanese lyrics)

teacup

teacup

In the "9 Ways How to Stay Motivated and Have Fun when Learning a New Language" thread (see My Forum >
General > Rocket Languages Blog) suggestion number 4 is to "Sing at the top of your lungs." Of course lyrics need to be learned first and my favorite way to learn them is with lyric videos on YouTube.

Here's one I recently found:

 二時間だけのバカンス featuring 椎名林檎 宇多田 ヒカル
[Nijikan Dake no Vacance featuring Sheena Ringo | Utada Hikaru]
カラオケ: かな+漢字 + ふりがな
karaoke: kana + kanji with furigana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q4bPf9vu3Q 

eta: YT removed the video :-(

If you find a Japanese song with lyrics to sing along to, please share.
(If YT says a video is not available in your country when you follow a link, try doing a search. Sometimes there are mirrors.)
ClaudiaR27

ClaudiaR27

Do you have an email address?  I cannot download this video, but I can email it, I think.
teacup

teacup

I thought it was something you watch online. If it's a file on your computer it might be DRM restricted.
ClaudiaR27

ClaudiaR27

It was online, but apparently they remade it and now it has a lot of banners in front of the kanji.  I had copied the old one, but it just won't cooperate about my copying it here.  Maybe it is restricted.  Sorry.  It's a good one.
teacup

teacup

Can you share the URL? Maybe the banners can be turned off?

Here's another one:
Aimer -"Ref:rain"
カラオケ(karaoke) starts at 0:15; かな (kana)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2JNJJOpIYM

eta: YT removed the video :-(

 
teacup

teacup

One more:
BabyMetal - 「メギツネ」(Megitsune)
MV+Kanji + Romaji + English Subs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbJtqXmk2Dw
MahaliaL

MahaliaL

I like this song by Kero Kero Bonito. A lot of the song is in english but it has two breakdowns in Japanese. The smaller chunks of Japanese make it less intimidating to sing along to for a beginner like me :) 
https://youtu.be/ApLzxrp2rrM
Tony-S10

Tony-S10

If you want to play it the hard way it is often easy to goole lyrics to Japanese songs and listen to them on YouTube. Doing it that way is slightly harder as you have to concentrate more but you know what to listen out for.
teacup

teacup

"Flamingo" looks like a lot of fun to learn to sing. (⊙ꇴ⊙)

Changing course towards metal again:
DEADLIFT LOLITA「Pump Up JAPAN」
MV+Kanji (English subs available through YouTube settings)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z02v-vX0Es

I like their song "No More Tears" better, but that video has a translation at the bottom. "The Pump Up JAPAN" video is a better choice for this thread as it has the Japanese lyrics at the bottom.
teacup

teacup

I found an entire channel of カラオケ today:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpKk-VBmrnhNkM9kglq0jJg/videos

The quality isn't great and the song selection is older but it has over 200 subtitled videos.
teacup

teacup

椎名林檎と宮本浩次  / Sheena (her preferred roman spelling) Ringo & Hiroji Miyamoto
獣ゆく細道 / Kemono yuku hosomichi
Kanji + Romaji + English Subs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWdUf9hSOA0
teacup

teacup

夏川りみ / Natsukawa Rimi
『島唄』 / Shima Uta 
Okinawa Sanshin cover / Kanji + Kana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOU0xicDz94

eta:
Actual Natsukawa performance 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StdNkhG_Nhs
Kanji + Kana
teacup

teacup

Another from 夏川りみ / Natsukawa Rimi
『花 〜すべての人の心に花を〜』
Live performance / Kanji + Kana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxvEsbpeuzo
ClaudiaR27

ClaudiaR27

I love this song.   It is the Hiroshima Carp Baseball team's theme song.  It is catchy, and if you are a baseball fan, this should interest you.  It has the lyrics on the page so you can sing along.  If you are a New Japan Pro-Wrestline fan, Tetsuya Naito has several shots in this as well.  It's a song that gets caught in your mind and you can't get rid of it.

 

https://youtu.be/XTiD4Sm-Pp4?list=RDXTiD4Sm-Pp4

Tony-S10

Tony-S10

This group is my current favourite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSI-dvBS4JI

Easy to listen to and some songs are easy to understand.

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