Hey guys what music should be introduced to USA
 

hey guys well i am on my way to getting a recording contract i cannot say what label right now because it is not in stone. But do you guys think i should try the JPOP thing over here i have tons of songs up for producing do you guys think the states is ready for it or is it foolish? Because the beats are so poppy and i really love it i wanna try. So what do you guys wanna hear? :P

Go for Jpop if really love it! :D You should make the music you like best! And congrats for the contract!

I dont think making something just because you like it will sell in America. Now-a-days, it seems like the only types of music that really sale are the stuff that has sex reference in it, rap, or r-n-b. Or something by some artificially beautiful person. I think you should first look at what sales, then decide from that, if you really want to be successful.

It just seems like the people in America now aren't really open to anything new.

Bah, nothing. It'd be butchered. kristen has a point, people aren't up for anything new. Look at Hikki.. That should tell you enough. There are enough people over here for there to be a quite dedicated J-music following, but I highly doubt it'd ever catch on and become a 'big' thing. o___o The only music I listen to over here anyways is emo/punk/hardcore, I stay away from the "pop" stuff, which blows, as well as the whole 'urban' crap. x_x

Oh, and congrats on the recording contract. :)

Go with what you love. It's way better to do that than to put out crap you don't feel like singing.

It may be better, but will it sell? Unless he likes the 'crap' kind of stuff, i think not.

Follow in Gwen Stefani's footsteps; English lyrics with Japanese backing vocals. =b

Or if you really wanted to, try to get the American rights to remake your favorite J-pop songs into English or something?

i am going to upload a song into the off topic downloads a sneak peak of this song i am working on. I like the jpop beats lol if that makes sense like mflo, DAI, and bounceback that is what i mean Hikki i don't know what the hell she was doing she was doing music i guess was out there but then my music could be out there. She wasn't marketed right cuz Devil inside was a awesome song i been hearing but no one has heard of her if she had went to trl on mtv it would be different she seems like a underground artist

i love "time goes by by ELT omg that so got me into jpop i downloaded the midi looking for sailor moon stuff lol and that is also how i found ayu. i love her "Two of us" and Hikki's "in my room, time will tell and automatic i would do these in english if i could find the backing tracks they are online somewhere LOL

first of all english music isnt crap.....lol. and hikki didn't make it not cause she was jpop, but because her first single was EASY BREEZY.
actuallly, currently the new "thing" is little guitar boys like ryan cabrera and john mayor and little small-time bands are making it big, like the postal service and keane.

I totally agree with you Kristen.
An artifically beautiful person, fully equipped with breast implants and botox and all :rolleyes
Please, America is deprived of naturally beautiful people (inside and out) like Ayu. But we all know that she won't make a debut here .. :(
Really though, people won't listen to anything that's not in English. They suck because they have no idea what they are missing out on. I got my bestfriend hooked on Japanese music (Ayu :D :D and Mika Nakashima) as well as my boyfriend (he likes Laruku) so that's my accomplishment.

But congrats on the recording contract :yes

I wouldn't know, i havent listened to or taken notice of american music industries for the past 2 years.

I say... it depends.

Stick to songs like SEASONS, End Roll, SURREAL, Liar, or M and you could maybe do pretty well. Don't go too poppy because people don't like that anymore in the US. (HONEY type of music) And please, don't go all ghetto or R&B. Please.

Other than that, good luck!

Hikki is not J-Pop. She's R&B for Christ's sake.

Ryan Cabrera? Oh please. I wonder who even likes his cheesy love songs.

Hikki is Jpop. Sure she does R&B aswell but that's not her only musical genre

do something NEW!
it may make a difference in the music industry!~

I agree, Brit!!! The people who just want everything in English are just idiots :yes .

If Jpop should be introduced to ANY place, then it should be in Europe. It already has the true culture clash, with French songs going number one on English music boards...I love those people, really. :luv2

But anyways, Americans are too busy griping about Britney Spears' breast and 50 Cent's gunshot wounds to care about true music (aka virtually anything non-American nowadays).

True well i got somthing in mind and you guys will be proud and i am definately gonna thank AHS forum lol beleive in that!!!

Did you ever upload your song to the download section?

Hmmm...a very interesting question with very interesting answers. ;)

I don't think J-pop would sell very well here in America; unless a bunch of anime/j-pop fans actually banded together and MAKE it sell.

I think I said this here before once and I'm going to have to say it again; America doesn't promote Asian people like they should. You hardly EVER see an Asian in a Pepsi commercial here let alone in a movie unless it's something to do with martial arts or some kind of stereotyping role. And if it's not that, the movies that give them serious roles are in limited theaters or just totally suck with horrible voice-overs. :eviltongu

All the American public seems to want is what will corrupt pop-culture even further. They won't advertise anything that will try to make it stable. And if they do, it's only a plot to make it into something sexual or violent in the end.

If you look at BET for just fifteen minutes, your face will be slammed with ass and breasts during the entire time. You might even see the occassional gun toting guys saying "they'll kick anybody's ass." :(
And if you look at MTV you'll see pretty much some of everything from sexual situations to kill off your frame of mind, to watching stupid rich girls who cry over something about not getting a car for their 16th birthday. (I'm 16, I didn't get a car for my birthday...am I supposed to get an episode on MTV about it?) :no , I just live my life and keep on going on with it.

In other words, the American music/movie industry wants you to live in a fantasy world and stay in it. They don't want you to be different, so therefore they're not going to promote anything different from the norm.
But if this is what you really want to do, your going to have to do it until it breaks through into the mainstream and if that's what you want, you can't give up. EVER.
Who knows, maybe you'll be the one to fix this "sexual revolution" we're in. But either way you do it, I'll be behind you a kabillion-%. :yes

yeah alot of people said my sound was different.. I uploaded a song before but was forced to take it down someone was copying my lyrics lol that wasn;t even from this forum. I agree with what you said we are doing a few jpop songs and yes one is from ayu lol and it sounds awesome it is one from I AM and a song of GacktS and that was hard enough!!!

Ugh, don't get J-pop into the US, I love it because it's so different. It'd become a fad and then become really unpopular. I wouldn't want that...Better to let the lucky ones, which would be us, listen to our J-pop in peace. People'd prolly make fun of it though. If it were introduced to the US, I think the brilliant green, Namie Amuro, Koda Kumi and Do As Infinity would probably be the ones the US would like the most...No Ayumi, Ai or ELT. :(

ha! ha u haven't noticed but JPOP has always been here!! i let people listen to one of the songs i did from ayu and they were like omg that song is awesome!! i told them who i covered they checked her out and they love her!! and i did Samurai Drive awesome song!!! LOL

Wow, that's a little ridiculous... I like a lot of elegant female-fronted metal and other types of "odd" music that has a general following here, maybe not as huge as people like Britney Spears or Green Day, but it's still pretty popular and the bands sell out their shows here. The problem is partially in the record labels but mostly it's hard to tour here and touring is the only way for small bands to promote themselves well.

Jpop is relatively popular here, just because the majority of Japanese bands do well enough in Japan that they don't want to extend their sales overseas, and most average Americans don't want to pay $30 for a CD with lyrics they don't understand, doesn't mean we're a close-minded country musically.

Well I am going to redo alot of songs lol i finished Gackt's covers it sounds good to me i let my friends and co workers listen they were awed and were like damn u can do this!!!