Back in the days, when I’m sick of listening to normal instrumental music while studying, I would switch to some foreign language music (which I don’t understand, if I do understand the language, ie English, I will get distracted by following the lyrics). I usually prefer to Jap-hits, and would treat foreign language as the new “instrument” in music. Well, since I don’t understand the language, following the lyric would be… hard, unnecessary, in other words, I don’t have to… And then I got addicted to them, but mostly are the PVs from drama, or anime… I started skipping actual instrument music, except for Joe Hisaishi’s, I mean his songs still rocks, sad but wonderful… and I sometimes plan to use his song in my game (if I ever do create a game with a “sad” genre). Now that I’ve learned Japanese language, got to know some words, and the formation of sentence and stuff, I started following lyrics. Not to say I’m distracted, but I’m sometimes do focus really hard when doing something i love, for instance, game development. Sometimes even if it’s Joe Hisaishi’s Piano Stories, I would get distracted too, though there isn’t any lyrics in there, or some people shouting Latin words and such. His music were just, wonderful, beautiful, and distract-ful…
