Japanese cover of Moonstar88's 'Migraine' goes viral
MANILA, Philippines — A Japanese cover of Filipino rock band Moonstar88's hit song "Migraine" has been making rounds on social media and gained millions of views.
Ken & Miyuki's Japanese version of the song caught the attention of socal media users when they uploaded videos of their Facebook and YouTube accounts.
Miyuki is Filipino but sang the Japanese lyrics as if "Migraine" was plucked out of an anime. Half-Japanese Ken was behind the guitar and bass.
The lyrics are more or less a direct translation of the original Filipino words, but toward the end, Miyuki concludes with the song's iconic "nahihilo, nalilito."
As of writing, the Facebook video has over five million views, 471,000 reactions, and 10,000 comments while the YouTube video has reached 122,000 views and 16,000 likes.
Moonstar88 has showed their support for the cover by commenting a crying and clapping emojis on the Facebook video, to which Ken & Miyuki replied with thanks and love emojis.
The Filipino band shared the cover video to their own Facebook page and in a separate post wrote the lyrics "Kura-kura, Guru-guru," the beginning of the chorus which was "nahihilo, nalilito" but roughly translates to "I'm dizzy, everything is spinning."
Now based in the Philippines, the duo of Ken & Miyuki have covered other Filipino songs in Japanese like This Band's "Kahit Ayaw Mo Na" and SB19's "Mapa."
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