Eurobeat

He was preceded by the new romantics prime minister.

Somebody wake me up when we get to the Eurobeat prime minister, I guess.

To be fair,

wake me up for that too.

Yeah, and Stu Levy has a great interview on there, comes off as quite charismatic in this, in this interview.

But he talks about when Initial D came out and how he doesn't like Eurobeat.

Eurobeat is cheesy to him, and so he was like, "Let's rip out all of this Eurobeat music and put in my hip-hop music."

When you say, "My hip-hop music," we need to be very specific, Gerald, because what...

When you say, "My hip-hop music," you literally mean music that Stu Levy composed himself because-

I knew the song.

It was some Eurobeat song from Initial D.

Gas, gas, gas, gonna step on the gas.

And soon enough, the sound pulled into the parking lot and its source was revealed.

I also completed the trip to the Lonely Mountain, earning the title Wing Under the Mountain.

I recorded both runs and uploaded to YouTube with heavy speed increase and Eurobeat drifting music.

As I write to you, I have it on repeat.

I also know you will hate saying all these words.

you might even want to say as to 83 or even 84, but it's really like, once we get to, once we get to the, the, the mid eighties, there's a, there's a, a, a, a real condensation of the sound.

Um, And yeah, like, I mean, similar to Dancehall, you could trace a thread from that Italo sound through Eurobeat and Eurobeat's descendants, which still functionally exist today, right?

Right.

You know, just kind of like...

The lines between a high-energy track and a later Italo track might be very blurry.

Because by 84, 85, 86 especially, we start getting into...

The stuff that really coalesces as this proto-Eurobeat sound.

Right.

It's always neat to see what people used to listen to in this car before I got it.

That's some Eurobeat dance stuff, but somehow it's about Japan.

I don't know.

It's in English, but it talks about Tokyo, Tokyo, something like that.

Nah, nah.

Eurobeat will never be the same.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's like life before the internet, you know?

But I would ha- rather have someone try to do stuff like that than, uh, you know...

But-- 'cause, you know, ba- back then, um, who th- looked at Initial D back in that moment and saw this weird show with dated CG and Eurobeat and thought that car nerds everywhere are gonna fall in love with this weird-ass show? That's not a common thought back then.

Yeah.

And it just happened to work out eventually as, you know, the internet made everyone weird.

It's criminal not to.

My favorite is classical and Eurobeat."

Have you seen my-

Do you have a, do you have a new, new, new hit that you, uh, have released?

So, yeah.

You can't sing Eurobeat.

It's got to be stuff that a bunch of drunk people can scream.

Okay? And it is probably the best community bonding thing ever.