Top (6/7) Songs from Panty and Stocking /w Garterbelt Soundtrack

A slow day for anime, without a doubt, but a busy, busy day for moi. As such, I’ll keep this post relatively short (Aren’t blog posts supposed to be short in the first place?). Anyways, I’ve now chosen the 6th track off of this album that I would recommend to all you music lovers out there, even if you’ve never touched an anime DVD in your life. Missed the first one? Don’t fret, that’s what links are for.

6. D City Rock by Teddyloid feat. Debra Zeer (Listen)

No, that is not a misspelling of “Zebra Deer”, the featured artist really is called Debra Zeer, though I’d hate to think what kind of freakish animal would look like that. Maybe like this. Woops, sorry, wrong animal. That’s a twisted love child of a zebra and a kangaroo. Okay, how about this? Better.

I’ll excuse his dyed hair and Pete Wentz wannabe look because of the fact that this dude makes good remixes and studio productions. Who might that be? Well, I’m talking about Teddyloid, of course (on the right).

It starts off like any other pop-rock that’s come out in the past ten years. Think Avril Lavigne with a tinge of Auto-tune, and you have the basic sound of this song. The thing that struck me as odd from this track was the grammatical correctness. You hear a lot of Engrish coming out from the Asian music market these days and the English they put into their songs is abysmal. Not so for this song as, for the most part, the English is actually coherent. You won’t hear something like “Minna-san, Let’s fighting!” here.

Ha, I crack myself up, but back to the song. Though the chunky, palm-muted power chords are standard fare, the lyrics accurately address the characteristics of the Anarchy sisters, which is neat. The producers have obviously thought to make the song fit into the source material. I wouldn’t normally suggest that anyone listen to this kind of song, yet the cohesiveness with the rest of the album, and the anime as well, is admirable.

The censor near the beginning of the song is also a subtle touch that many might not notice as being significant. What, with thousands of songs on the radio getting edited for radio-airplay, people don’t bat an eyelash at censoring anymore. In that sense, D City Rock pokes fun at some of the censorship rules that pervade in today’s society. Hell, the whole anime revels in its own absurdness and dirtiness.

And for all of your dedication over the last two posts, the next update in this series will contain the rest of the list. (Oh boy!) I’ll  keep the review short,  succinct, and to the point. So look forward to that, peeps!