adevyish | 2022 music listening: special 2000s revival edition (Reply)

So while adding songs to my 2022 Q2 music list I noticed a foreboding trend — a majority of the songs were all ~*~mid-2000s nostalgia~*~. Way to instantly bring on an early midlife crisis. So, I’m just going to get these songs out of the way so I can return to compiling shoegaze dream pop without the passage of time looming over my head T_T

This post as a Youtube playlist :p

Philosophy no Dance / Waterproof Night
- Filing this one right next to m-flo’s “miss you” (2003).
CUBΣLIC / SBFM
- Can’t revive the 2000s without electropop. This is very Nakata Yasutaka circa 2007 with a bit of guitar and Katamari Forever (2009) thrown in.
te’resa / Don’t slow me down
- Adding this one for the fake Winamp skin music video.
Queendom / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Time to hit the DDR machine! Or FFR for me. Anyway, Queendom is a special unit for this anime consisting of ⅖^ths lol (hibiki & moca), ⅖^ths Faky (Akina & Taki)※, and ⅐^th Genic (Kaneya Maria). I should have guessed Avex was involved with this; they’ve been trying to revive para para for the past 5+ years. Surprisingly, this is a cover of a 2013 song.
Prikil / Somebody
- An updated take on pop!pop punk along the lines of Tamaki Nami’s “High School Queen” (2004). Which is a cover of a 2003 Dutch song but, like, I didn’t know Limewire existed back then never mind how to discover music online. The K-pop-style rap verse and a booming brass make this song more 2020s than 2000s.
Minami / Kono Machi ni Hare wa Konai
- To close off, a rock ballad that could have come out in 2005 or 2007. It’s a great example of the genre though and has nice orchestral accents.