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Originally posted by Jack. Bauer
No creativity in general (by which I mean just not black-and-white where every song sounds the same), and certainly more creative than K-pop. Besides I wasn't about to say K-pop acts should be making Shiina style music because that would be a ****ing terrible idea, not to mention it would never come close to being (k-)popular.
I just wish the Korean GP were more open to less accessible songs like the Japanese, well, used to be. Something like Juicy from a Korean group would be mind-blowing.
Anyways I agree with the last part, it's why I'm seeking solace in asian music right now, and why I haven't touched western music in a long time. But even now I'm listening to everything historical, nothing that recent.
Music as a whole has been on a shocking decline the past few years.  |
I don't see the certainty, I disagree. Kuu is very westernized, Fergie/Gwen/Britney inspired, and even more non-original post-JAPONESQUE. As for Namie, I love her -- but no, her older albums ? maybe, but the last 3 ones were more on the basic generic EDM fluff side, with little replay value
"J-Pop" is such a massive market anyway, it's hard to compare it to KPop, except the very mainstream stuff -- where KPop easily wins. All those NZG67 NLK55 ZZZ322 girl groups are tragic on so many levels (AKB48 is an exception ofc ,they have their fair share of genius songs, and yes I like the risky side and all the great PVs and visuals )
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I just wish the Korean GP were more open to less accessible songs like the Japanese, well, used to be.
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I agree SO much with this, it's so...annoying how one-dimensional Koreans can be when it comes to music
It limits artists' creativity, and makes the ~interesting acts go EXTINCT due to overwhelming floppage
But at the same time, how arrogant and insensitive of us foreigners to try to shove our noses into what music
we think they
should like/support. It's their own market and they can do whatever the hell they want with it
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