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Originally Posted by Dustie
Are you sure? I've read Eurobeat is how Japanese percive European dance music scene...
OK, I checked in Wikipedia, it originates from Europe but it's mainly popular in Japan.
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Most eurobeat is made in Europe. The lyrics may make little more sense than the engrish found in japanese music, but it's mostly grammaticaly correct and there's no strange japanese accent to most of it because it's sung by europeans. If anyone remember whigfield. From the 90's with the hit song saturday night, she used to sing some eurobeat songs under an alias.
source However some japanese arrangers have naturally adopted the style, so a lot of eurobeat is made in japan too either by natives or foreigners. Most original eurobeat songs are in english, most with japanese lyrics are wither adaptions or remixes.
IMO the most closely related style to eurobeat is italo-dance (like miko mission and sabrina) and eurodance. Eurobeat use the same synth sound as italo dance, but is a LOT faster and use more hyper themes and melodies. The lyrics are also just as sensical as a lot of italo songs. However over the years, eurobeat has incorporated a lot of different elements into its main sound.
The best source for eurobeat I've found in english is this finnish site:
http://eurobeat-prime.com/