Shugo Tokumaru - Parachute

[mongoliancarrot]

Love it!

[goodgoodgoodful]

seeing the animation reminds me to children pictures. when one's imagination flies so free.

[GroovemineTV]

In our review of Port Entrophy we said "Shugo Tokumaru shines because he makes you forget how much of a bitter person you’ve become" Come on over and read the rest!

[0372htemfa]

BUMP OF CHICKEN 三ツ星カルテットに似ている。

[JustHereForComedy]

It's like... like the Japanese version of Coldplay. :D I'm so freaking happy right now. This artist defies everything that's thought of as Japanese music (i.e., J-pop, which I like as well though I'm more of a rocker. 80s FTW!). Geez.... can't get better than this. He proves just how amazing Japanese (and indie) music is. I LOVE SHUGO!!!! <3 :D

[JustHereForComedy]

@JustHereForComedy Actually, now that I think about it, he's more like a Japanese version of Arcade Fire, which is still a compliment. Actually you know what? He's his own person with his own sound, so I have no idea what I'm talking about. This music's making me high, yet at peace with the world. d(n_n)b

[CIicktheYellowButton]

@JustHereForComedy

Ｉ’ｖｅ　ｎｏｔｉｃｅｄ　ａ　ｖｅｒｙ　ａｐｐａｒｅｎｔ　ｔｒｅｎｄ　ｉｎ　ｔｈｅ　Ｗｅｓｔｅｒｎ　ｗｏｒｌｄ　ｃａｌｌｉｎｇ　ａ　Ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ　ｐｅｒｓｏｎ　”ｔｈｅ　Ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ　＊ｉｎｓｅｒｔ　ｆａｍｏｕｓ　ｗｅｓｔｅｒｎ　ｈｅｒｅ＊．”　Ｉｎ　ｔｈｅ　ｃｏｍｍｅｎｔｓ　ｏｆ　ｔｈｅ　ｐａｓｔ　ｆｅｗ　ｖｉｄｅｏｓ　Ｉ’ｖｅ　ｓｅｅｎ　Ｓｈｕｇｏ　ｃｏｍｐａｒｅｄ　ｔｏ　ｌｉｋｅ　５　ｄｉｆｆｅｒｅｎｔ　ｐｅｏｐｌｅ．　Ｉｎ　ｍｙ　ｅｘｐｅｒｉｅｎｃｅ，　ｔｈｅｙ　ｄｏｎ’ｔ　ｔｅｎｄ　ｔｏ　ｌｉｋｅ　ｉｔ．

[JustHereForComedy]

@CIicktheYellowButton Oh, I never meant to upset him in any way whatsoever. :) I was merely mentioning that his music reminds me of a band I like, which happens to me a Western band. I didn't realize my comment could've been misinterpreted as an insult. If I have offended him, I truly do apologize to him. I just meant to say that he sounds like Arcade Fire (one of my favorite bands), complimenting him in the process. :P I'm sure he doesn't mind.

[CIicktheYellowButton]

@JustHereForComedy

Ｗｏａｈｈｈ　ｏｋａｙ　ａｐｏｌｏｇｉｅｓ　ａｃｃｅｐｔｅｄ．　Ｉ　ｄｉｄｎ’ｔ　ｍｅａｎ　ｉｔ　ｓｏ　ｍｕｃｈ　ａｓ　ａｎ　ｉｎｓｕｌｔ．　Ｉ　ｗａｓ　ｊｕｓｔ．．．　ｃｏｍｍｅｎｔｉｎｇ　ＸＤ

[JustHereForComedy]

@CIicktheYellowButton ... How do you type like that? lol

[CIicktheYellowButton]

@JustHereForComedy

Ｉ　ｓｏｌｄ　ｍｙ　ｓｏｕｌ　ｔｏ　ａ　ｓｉｃｋ　ｏｌｄ　ｌａｄｙ　ｕｎｄｅｒ　ａ　ｂｒｉｄｇｅ　ｉｎ　Ｓｉｇｎａｐｏｒｅ．

Ｂｕｔ　ｉｎ　ａｌｌ　ｓｅｒｉｏｕｓｎｅｓｓ　Ｉ’ｌｌ　ｍｅｓｓａｇｅ　ｙｏｕ　ｈｏｗ．

[JustHereForComedy]

@CIicktheYellowButton LOL That comment made my friggin' day, man.

[MulticolouredMoogle]

@JustHereForComedy It's the input of the Ｅｎｇｌｉｓｈ Alphabet on the Ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ typing system used by windows. Ｓｅｅｅｅｅ．　：）　

[JustHereForComedy]

@MulticolouredMoogle Oh, cool. Thanks. :D

[mizunobun4244]

トクマルさんの作る音楽はメロディーや歌詞がとても素晴らしくて­、ポップな中にどこか前衛的な雰囲気が出ているサウンドもとても­好きです。

私も趣味で音楽作成を行っていますが、彼の作品には影響を受けま­した。

ちなみに私の曲はyoutubeにもアップしてあるので気になっ­た方は「六畳間POP」と検索して聴いてみて下さい。

曲を聴いた感想などをコメントして頂けるとありがたいです。

[soulishmusic]

How pretty! :)

[icekueen]

Watashi mo, hontoni daisuki :)

prachute...lol

[piribolygo]

grizzly bear

[rakkamame]

大好きー＾＾

[Jprimarch]

I absolutely love this song, it's so beautiful.

[pbsclair]

i love shugo tokumaru's music but i don't want to be called a hipster/emo/japanophile. music is music and I like it. that's all.

those who like labeling people and those who "like" certain music because they want to be someone who likes such music make me feel bad.. same ppl take smug joy out of writing some sarcastic comments about justin bieber. hate it when ppl use music to feel superior :(

[gosk8n]

i heard good reviews about Shugo i recently got 2 of his albums and he never fails to impress

[timjmoran]

WOW! What a lil' GEM of a tune!! And the guitar playing is too cool- virtuosic, like you don't normally hear in this type of tune. A bit of a knuckle-buster, that riff... and such a catchy, infectious tune. Like nothing I have heard in a long time. Definitely going to look into more of this artist.

[eacey]

When he says "parachute" that is in English correct? just with Japanese pronunciation.

[Galakazoo]

@eacey yes.

Most of the song is in japanease, but when he says "Parachute", it's the english meaning.

[AKIRAGDB]

何気ない日常が少し幸せになりました。

ありがとう。

[ethereal0313]

Anyone who doesn't smile and want to do a little dance while listening to this song has no soul.

[tarapacana]

If you give up and go down the ladder,

you'll be the place where you were.

*repeat A

C)

Where should I land on?

Frothing voices are flown to the wind.

Take the rudder.Steer yourself with your perplexity.

parachute (×3

* B

* C

[tarapacana]

On green crossing,I opened parachute,

but it was too fast and too late,and Death traversed.

A)

It's like waving in big wind.

All day holiday.(×2

So long way for home.

B)

Reaching for the ladder,opening the skylight,

and there's too blue

parachute (×3

[IVomitOrgasms]

150k views? I had no idea he was so popular! In the USA, it's hard to find fans of his. Such a great musician and guy.

[emere4eva]

same in england, nobody i know actually knew who he was : /

[bambambecky]

@IVomitOrgasms well im pretty sure at least half these views are from me :)

[magician226]

thank you for bringing me back to my childhood

[sincero333]

This song is very very great!It's like dream!=)

[2totok]

なんか恋だなんだと同じ題材しか取り上げないやつよっかいいねぇ­。

[naramichiq]

maybe the best song of shugo tokumaru. simply beautiful!!!

[amaim0n0daisuki]

軽やかで心地よいなぁ

[Jshane4090]

But such an artist is not popular in Japan.

Only Corporate Rock such as love songs is popular

[tonksloopy]

I feel like I'm in a dream, a really really happy and sweet dream when I listen to this :D

[mousecuit]

This is really beautiful, I love his work.

[kallekorv37]

i'm going to see him this saturday in stockholm, sweden. woho!

[Lentalsoup333]

I went to see him live - an accident, actually, I was supposed to go to Frightened Rabbit's concert instead - and it turns out this song was playing when I came in. I fell in love, I swear.

[Nippontastic]

I saw him live, he is really good live, too!

[ImadH7]

i donno wt the guy;s saying , but all in all sounds happy trippy ! i like it !

[poopr1221]

I was in bed listening to this song, and I just felt like I was glowing. What a fun, beautiful song. His stuff just makes my world that much better. Thank you Shugo.

[MarmaladeSkies1967]

what a delightful song!

[msvor]

I'm gonna see him this summer :D

[darcying]

wow ! Lovely ..

[jimmyalexanderl]

Wow! Awesome!!! saw another video but like this more. they are so artistic, strange, honest, open and stuff... AWESOME!!! JIPPI!!! Great guitarplaying aswell!!!! YEAH!!!!!!

[bellasnow68]

The happiness just rubs off on me. This song is amazing...

[donnk]

omg i'm soo addicted

i'm looping this endlessly

[donnk]

the more i listen the more i love it...

wonderful music

[Mithoskrasnej]

yea, so cool! they play this song on my fav czech radio- radio wave. luv it :o)

[TheNewDynamic]

Reminds me a lot of Paul Simon's solo work. Found this on Pandora. Love it oh so much.

[thatguy766548]

this is the kind of song i WANT stuck in my head all day :D

[HailRasec]

i stumbled upon this video by mistake and Im so happy I did. This song is lovely.

[elamo10]

Japanese is bad ass, and Shugo Tokumaru is the ultimate Mother Fucker

[mordiger]

Very cute!!!

[nirniva]

Every time this song is played, an emo kid becomes happy again.

Bravo, Mr. Tokumaru. Bravo. :D

[HarpoTheVillain]

XD Can I quote you on that? =D

[nirniva]

@HarpoTheVillain

Sure! Gotta get the word out about Shugo somehow!

[copacolegial]

jajajaja nice!!...

[LittleFishChan]

This is so beautiful and eclectic.

これはなんと奇麗なんですね。

[TheCrimper]

more people need to hear about this guy. all his songs on exit kick ass.

[teriyakireader]

on a world, of war, and hatred...

this song brings up the creative side of it..

it just makes you jump into the music notes and sing with him, :]

[redshaftedflicker]

Mr. tokumaru is one creative guy. I like this a lot and feel lucky enough to even know that music like this exists.

[duckman32001]

try animal collective as well. Just to keep your hopes up that creativity is not dead.

[kathikat]

This song makes me smile =]

[EniesLobby]

Nanaa, nananananananaaa, nanananananaaaaa

[NausicaaRaine]

yes. I agree. This is a perfect song for katamari damacy

[NashKato]

Is this supposed to be for children**? Someone please point out where I can find artistic merit in this.

** Also, the children are severely retarded. And deaf.

[Superman54]

im now assuming that you think strange and different automatically means its art. what this guy is doing is taking very VERY poppy sounding music and trying to make it fresh and new. and writing pop music is not easy. out of all the bands ive ever been in, pop bands are the hardest to be successful at. cause it's too easy to make BAD pop. also, dont go bashing someones creative work, go and make somthing better yourself. seriously, if you can do better, then share your talent with the world.

[NashKato]

Why should my ability to produce "better" work restrict my freedom to comment on this, or anything else?

If you buy a new car, and the transmission explodes after 50 miles, the dealership doesn't say to you "Well it's better than any car YOU could have built, so keep your complaints to yourself."

That I haven't written a better piece of music (as far as you know) doesn't change the fact that this song sounds like a wounded cat thrashing around inside a defective jack-in-the-box.

[Superman54]

that analogy doesnt have any relationship to music. art is open to interpretation. no one can claim that a song is truely better than another based on anything else than opinion. whereas a crappy transmission is just a crappy transmission. and yes i do think that people shouldnt critique art unless they are creating somthing themselves. and especially on the youtube video where fans get together to share what they all like about the art they see. i respect your opinion, i just dont agreee withit

[nichoji]

"criticism is as inevitable as breathing," T.S. Eliot said that - you don't have to be involved in a creative process in order to evalutate someone else's work - most literary critics don't try their hand at fiction, just as most people, talking about how good or bad a film was upon coming out of the cinema, aren't in the movie making business - i'm sure you've done the latter yourself... and that is an appropriate analogy.

[seraphlaim]

Being part of the artistic discussion is the point of art in the first place. Telling people to not contribute unless they like it is counter-productive and more, if you got your way, would ensure that artistic discussion was insanely boring.

So i say tell me why something does or does not reach you. In order to find the answer we have to take stock of what is important to us and thats watch art is supposed to do.

[HahaBINARY01010]

This song ALWAYS makes me smile.

[gabrieltullis]

Shugo can slap the juice box out of anything.

[eacey]

I am so glad I'm off drugs, music finally slaps the juice box out of my hand again.

[goodgrief78]

Right on. That's great.

[eacey]

Thanks

[meitazgurl]

love shugo!!!

[pamaboro]

Does anybody where I can find his lyrics? I've been looking for so long! Specially for "Button"

[eacey]

Yeah I would like the translation for this song too.

[mdmagnotti]

this guy is a japanese manifestation of the same ideas fueling of montreal. it strikes the same chord but in a whole new way. i love it.

[robpri]

Disappointing. Not my bag this so rated poor.

[drummermylo]

Douzou yoroshiku! Hajimete kita!  dai suki! Sugu CD o katte tsumori desu! Michigan ni kimasuka?

[hanma1098]

いい曲だ

[Rei153]

最高ですね!!

[thememz]

shugo tokumaru is a japan singer in america indie lable recording..i think he is genius of makin musics..unique melodie!!

[lilichuhe]

喜欢

[halomega3000]

I freaking love this song. It gets me all cheery.

also, I am having a good time w/ the audio preview haha

[MuffinBakersGrimm]

lol, me too xD

[Fakkan]

Awesome. Makes me feel like when I heard Sufjan Stevens for the first time. A bit weird, but so likeable.

[otakuboy123]

:]

miracle...just a miracle

[meowclops47]

I thought was a girl when I listened to his music. I must be bad at hearing or something. I love the music though.

[interpolluter29]

ON the cover of the album, a promoter of Shugo's album described it like listening to different colors of the kaliedoscope. After listening to this song first, I couldn't agree more.

[paintedturtle]

These melodies are unfrigginbelievable

[CaptainJoshie]

<333

[auzio]

i absolutely love this song.

i addicted to it.

[blue2theend]

i LOVE the music/ graphics. another astounding work of musical art. <3<3<3

[mexikostadt]

I just heard about this artist on NPR; excellent music from Japan!

[Aviv100000]

.. I wish I knew what this song was about- any help?

Also, I KNOW I've heard this before this discovery- commercial maybe?

[blue2theend]

its in japanese.. but i could hear something that sounded like praa-choo. u know, parachute?

[Vasumitra79]

so cute!

[lucybe91]

I love this song!!!!! "" ""

[figurefight08]

いい曲だなぁ。

[dasutomann]

きれいな唄だ・・・・

[tonksloopy]

*feels happy inside* :D

[LMPPrincess]

This song is the cutest! I LOVE IT!

[vivigwen]

such a pretty song!

[rebelliousmunchkin]

this video and song is great.

[MargotMeow]

The music is excellent.

The cat is my favorite part of the video.

[SonicPsycho]

インターネットの言語訳者は驚くばかりである!

[sassysamsharp]

この歌を聞いたら、世界の美しさが絶対にちょっと上がるよ

やっぱりいいな〜 indeed.

Gambatte Shugo! 大好きだよ！

[matt40765]

beautiful!

[ryuppe]

やっぱりいいな～

[OddBulgarian]

love the video and the song.

[sublimityeternal]

waaaaaa!

[MuffinBakersGrimm]

waaaaaaa!

[cilleysf]

昔のファミコンみたい

Exactly!!! wait... what?

[kitaharatatsurou]

（絵が）

[kitaharatatsurou]

昔のファミコンみたい

[Spunkykoala]

Glorious music, Shugo

as expected, this is the best :]

[6minus3minus2]

Shugo Tokumaru is my hero.

[renebarot]

i like this video and song much better than green rain. new cd out sooooon, big smiles

[Mast3rh3nx]

Another goldpiece from Shugo´s brain =D!

[banur]

"Exit" will be the album of the year! For sure!

[HarpoTheVillain]

Guy above me; you took the words straight outta my mouth.

Wonderful!

[ealdrege88]

awesome! can't wait for the new album.

[girngaz318]

yessss!