ONE OK ROCK
I've found a new great band, quite young still, had their major debut this year, 2007.04.25 with the single "Naihi shinsho".
ONE OK ROCK, a young band that formed around 2006.
The vocalist TAKA is a former NewS member (Johnny's Entertainment), but he dropped after their so-called first single (it wasn't an "official" single, only sold in 7-Elevens and didn't count as their first single), because he wanted to continue his studies.
The members are around 18-20 years today, and they're having a single release this autumn.
Check these out:
Keep it real (Indies)
Naihi shinsho (Debut single)
Yume Yume (Newest single)
I've been thinking about their band name these days, and I have a theory that it's not what it looks like, like "one OKay rock". If you pronounce it in japanese, it becomes like this: "one OKu rock". This "oku" means milliard/billion. So maybe it says "one billion rock", makes more sense but at the same time less sense, what, in this case, do they wanna say with "one billion rock"??
Well, it's a question that I do not have the answer on, yet.
3 comments:
The group came up with the name ONE OK ROCK because they would book studio time at One o'clock. The Japanese pronunciation of ONE OK ROCK (ワンオクロック) is wanokurokku which sounds like One o’clock
One Ok Rock was named after the time they used to come to the studio to rehearse. That time it was the most cheapest to play at. So if you pronounce One O'clock in a japanese accent, it sounds like wan o krock so they made it One Ok Rock.however, I do hear Taka pronounce it as One 'Okay' Rock when he is speaki g in english.
and now this band is very famous
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