[2002] Who's your favorite Western pop singer?
 

Okay, I'm not talking about just your favorite American artist, but who is your favorite American POP singer? I'm sure we'll have a nice debate over whether or not Britney Spears actually has any talent or not, so I'm not voting for her. I really like Kylie Minogue. She's not slutty and her songs are fun.

Yeah Kylie is really good but I think Britney is ok.

Technically Kyle isn't American pop. She's from Australia. :p hehe, but I guess she counts.

My favorite American group would be Blink 182. They're not really pop, but they're still really good.

One of the reasons I listen to Japanese Pop music is because American Pop isn't worth it. So I don't have one.

Ashley

I don't really like any American pop singers but there are several bands in the pop category that I like: Third Eye Blind, Tonic, Green Day, Matchbox Twenty, Creed, Nickelback, etc. I guess the closest thing to an American pop singer I will listen to is John Mellencamp.

uhhh is trance kind of like pop? all happy and bouncy and fast? right? welll....I like all kinds of artists...anything thats just in my interests...Ill get down to anything really...I dont mind at all...if I like christina aguilera's songs, then so be it..I dont care what people think, they can kiss my bootie! hehe...:D

I also like any rock songs...I dont have a favorite "band or singer" but I have favorite "songs" by a variety of artists...yet, I dont know, BoA (who is definitely not american) strikes my interest as fav. singer at the moment...maybe jaci valesquez, shes cool...hmmm...it's really hard to say "what I like"...Im not very picky!! :thumbsup

Since most trance is made in Europe, and I hardly listen to the radio, I'm gonna say no one....Too many people like Christina, Lil BowWow (and all those other Lil people...lol), and just about all modern day US pop starts just annoy me. Some I can tolerate and perhaps like, but I don't have a favorite...

favorite american pop singer? how about none. these pop idiots and carbon copy college rock bands (like sum 41 and blink 142...sorry Grant, haha) have no talent whatsoever. but that's just me.

<-- punk fan. hates it when people refer to Blink and Sum as pop
at least call them pop-punk, dang it. >.<
Blink, no talent? what the fudge are you smokin, dude? if i could play the bass half as well as Mark Hoppus or the guitar half as well as Tom DeLongue or even the drums a quarter as well as Travis Barker can, i'd be a happy man.
and have you heard Sum 41's new stuff? it rocks and is completely different from All Killer No Filler. bah.
no, i don't only listen to pop-punk. i listen to all sorts of punk. hardcore, ska/punk, indy. whatever. i listen to everything from Green Day to The Offspring to Five Iron Frenzy to Rufio.
i'm going to stop now before i start ranting more.

uhhmm... maddona, minus the slutty past
she's great and ayu likes her.. i think

I like Holly valance too and Christinas song "Dirrty" but I think that she is too slutty.

Yeah, I like Madonna a lot, too. I just wish she would act her age! :laugh

same to me...

I was at the Kylie concert in Switzerland this year - it was quite good.
And I also was a fan of Madonna years ago.
But now I'm tired of their songs and Madonna is still way too rude and slutty sometimes (but that's what I think).

Mhmm funny...
Ayu is 24 years young,
Kylie 34 years and Madonna, I think, 44 years old. :)

Wow, I wasn't aware that Kylie was so old. 34? Really? Wow.

LOL, funny you would say that because everyone in my school has started calling her Slutina Slagulerra. Sure it's mean, but she kinda had it coming to her.

Let me see. I like Pink and Shakira when it comes to pop. I'm in love with Avril Lavigne :D

And talking about bands (although they're not pop)... System of a down, Feeder (welsh band :D), Foo Fighters, Q.O.T.S.A, Sum 41 are starting to get better finally, Offspring were good, Greenday rock, Crazy Town have recieved redemtion for there new song. I used like Linkin Park until they pulled a Limp Bizkit and completely sold out. I've also started listening to Disturbed.

what have I been smoking??
 

sorry n8, but one of the many benefits of being a fully-functioning human (besides being able to appreciate a delectable bag of doritos) is the added option of "free will." first off, i didn't refer to blink 182 and sum 41 as "pop." i called them "college rock." and for your information, i have heard all of their songs, including their new stuff (it's not by my choice, though. i have to listen to the radio at my place of work). in my opinion their songs share too many similarities (both lyrically and musically), and any attempt to discern a sort of "individuality" between the two bands is next to impossible. sure they can play their respective instruments, but just because one can play an instrument doesn't necessarily mean the end result of their "music-making" will be enjoyable. but hey, that's just me. you can listen to them all you want, i don't care. but it isn't your place to chastise me just because i dislike your taste in music.

take this for example: my brother listens to hardcore German industrial music (bands that a lot of people here in the states have never heard of). he knows i listen to j-pop and j-rock, but he doesn't like the stuff personally. he casually said to me once "i don't know how anyone can listen to that" (though he does admit that Ayu is "hot", haha). and it's not my place to try and convince him that he should like Ayu. i don't care if he does or not. i could give a rat's ass wether he does or not.

see what i'm getting at here? we (you and I) don't live in Nazi Europe or some archaic (by archaic i'm referring to a time period, not a level of advancement) central American culture (like the Toltecs or the Olmecs). we (at least you and I) live in the U.S.A., and the best thing about living here is you get to express your opinion freely. similarly, the worst thing about living here is you have to listen to the opinions of everyone else(like me), hahaha.

on a final note, to answer your eloquent question that was worded "what the fudge are you smokin, dude?" it's a mixture of tree bark, human bone, and catnip. any other questions? :thumbsup

i didn't say that you're the one who referred to them as pop. other people did. dang it, i typed that in three in the morning so most of what i say may differ from what i think when i'm fully concious. as for any other questions, can i have some of that? :P
i'm going to stop before i start on a linkin park rant.

i'm not a big fan of music here in the u.s. mostly cause the radio stations over play everything and i can only take so much of one song

Waffles! :USA :xmas

if i could only choose americans then - billy joel, huey lewis and the news, duncan sheik, chicago, prince, madonna, & spinfire.
and some of those groups/singers i dont like that much.

Ha ha, Ayufan, looks like you got a firecracker attitude like me! Don't get so offended!

haha biscuitgirl, i'm sorry about that. sometimes the Darth Vader in me makes a startling appearance. only my Darth Vader is really sarcastic, haha. that comes from having a pretty tough life so far, getting bullied in catholic school (go figure), and watching too many Marx Bros. movies :p

plus Darth Vader is just so cooool, and he's got some great lines too:
"He will join us or die, my master."
"Captain, I want you to tear this ship apart until you've found those plans, and bring me the passengers, I want them alive!"
"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force."
"He is as clumsy as he is stupid."
"It is useless to resist, my son."
"If you will not turn to the Dark Side, then perhaps she will!"

Darth Vader, huh? Does that mean you are Hayden Christiansen in real life?

:laugh Biscuitgirl has a little crush now. :D

You forgot...

"Luke, I am your father!"

followed by Luke screaming and falling from that massive thing.

oh let me think :think
I like Dido and Vonda Shepard =)

Luke: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"

best. line. ever :laugh


but really, I always thought Ayufan got his anger from Vegeta, seeing that it's part of his nick :P . And eVe: nice sig and avatar :)

thx :) I luv the pix from cece and so I had to make a ava+sig :laugh

haha, yeah. a lot of my anger comes from Vegeta, but Darth Vader came first. i was lucky enough to see Return of the Jedi during it's first theatrical run, and he stuck with me ever since! hahaha.:thumbsup

You saw it during the 1st theatrical release?? So that'd make you....umm....perhaps I shouldn't discuss that :laugh

the answer's simple and clean:

HIKARU UTADA

She's American sort of!!! :P:P:P

mine will be britney spears..... M2M.... mandy moore and christina aguilera also not bad....

i looooove prince, and old school micheal jackson.

i think my favorite amercian pop artist would have to be ben kweller :heart

talkin bout Hayden Christiansen, my friend (not me!) knows him...he's from canada and he went to the highschool close to mine...he was in an acting program of that highschool (which is basically an arts school)

Really, Mimika??? Can he hook me up??? :laugh

Wow! He did such a great job in Episode 2!

Off-topic but..

My friend had an audition for Anakin in episode 2, but they wanted him in LA the next morning for the audition, when he lives here in michigan. He's in CAPA with me.

Ashley

I only like some rock stuff (superficial, maybe in your eyes) such as Linkin Park, Bon Jovi.... Avril..... you know, any song artists that suits my ears.

Well I do dislike some artists such as Oasis and Robbie Williams, no offence cos' all I heard from them was negative news.

Man, if I were him, I would have dropped everything and run. Opportunities like that don't come around very often. Ashley, how did your friend get such an awesome audition? Has he been in any movies?

Ashley, what a lucky friend!!!

I like Madonna, but I don't like american pop very much. But i think american rock is very good. My favorite groups are Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Oasis, Foo Fighters and Avril...

yeah! Die Another day! *Just watched the movie yesterday*

Hilary Duff!!! Is that even POP?! Lol I'm not sure :D

Avril....though she isn't from US....

LP...I think...

The only American artist I used to listen to a lot would be the one and only Britney Spears. Yes, I was a big big big fan. Until her "In The Zone" and "Greatest Hits" albums. "Do Somethin'" was simply horrible. But that "Someday" video? Flawless. I kinda fell all over for her again, but I'm not that much into her anymore. Not as much as I used to be. Now, we shall just let her breathe, take a break, have her baby and enjoy motherhood with her husband. She really needs a break.

I've never really liked other singer except for Jennifer Lopez or Mariah Carey. I seem to like whoever people hate don't I? LOL! I like a few songs from a few artists. Like Xtina, Linkin Park, Lindsay Lohan and others. But I'm no fan. At all. I like a little bit of everything. But I hate everything R&B, Hip-Hop, Reggea, and Rap. Yeah, and today, that's all we can freaking hear in the radio and on TV. Ridiculous.


Are you kidding me? There isn't more pop than her. To me, she's just fake.

BRITNEY AND MADONNA ALL THE WAY!

*rant

almost everyone here thinks that american pop music is terrible, when if you think about it, liking ayu is the equivalent in japan to being a britney spears fan in the US.

saying that all american pop music is garbage is lame, there's a whole bunch of crappy japanese pop songs as well. you're not rebeling by only listening to asian music.

*rant

My favourite American singer.... hmm.... at teh moment I guess that would be Jack Johnson. I also love Hilary Duff and Michelle Branch. Most of the music I listen to now that I think about it is British, Robbie Williams and Sterophonics and Oasis and such...

kelly clarkson and christina auguilera(how ever you spell her last name...lol)...=]

I don't listen to American pop really. I much prefer rock.

christina aguilera~~ but yeah i dont listen to american music anymore since my obsession with Ayu~

Madonna, of course!
I like Hilary Duff a little too, and Kelly Clarkson. But Madonna on the top, always =D

Kelly Clarkson... XD

Mariah Carey...I adore her, and have since I was little! She's really the sweetest, most funny, most beautiful woman in person. X_X

I like Gwen Stefani, Avril Lavigne, Carole King, Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys. I listen often to BSB these days. I'm not really fan of American music, these are the only artists I listen to.

I don't have one. American Pop=Hisssss! :P

The only American music that I don't find completey terrible is the Postal Service and maybe Mae, they're ok I guess, I just like the pictures in their lyric booklet. :P

There's good American Singers??!?! When did this Happen!?!?!?! (not including Madonna, even Ayu likes her)

Michelle Branch!!
Tyler Hilton
Ben Jelen
Mandy Moore
Kelly Clarkson
Martina McBride
Faith Hill
Madonna
Britney Spears
OLD Mariah Carey... not her new crud. "Glitter" *SHUDDERS*

Not quite pop but well, Tori Amos <3333

is Gwen Stefani from US? I think she is~ hahaha, i like her. She's got unique fashion style and i like her song, Cool ^^

Haha!! I also love Tori Amos! Cornflake Girl, God, Spark and Sleeps With Butterflies are so cool and nice!! Other western artistes that are superb are Gwen Stefani, Natalie Imbruglia and the Minogue sisters!!!

1. Kelly Clarkson
2. Gwen Stefani
3. Mariah Carey
4. Michelle Branch
5. Alicia Keys

Kylie is not american.

Not every pop singer in the western market is american remember. =P

I don't have favourite, before I mostly liked groups and bands, not solo artits. And mostly I liked those artists that released songs I liked, I was never a fan.

Brittney of course, I honestly don't give a crap about what people say about her, she's cool and I'm happy for her being a mother! Gwen Stefani of course, as well as Mariah Carey. :)

I listen to lots of western stuff, mostly pop but not all of it is. I like Madonna, Britney, Gwen Stefani, Sarah McLachlan, Evanescence, Michelle Branch, Green Day, Kelly Clarkson, Alicia Keys...the list goes on...

Oh, and countless american DJs. Electronic music doesn't just come from europe ya know :D

KELLY CLARKSON ALL THE WAY SHE IS THE BEST!!!

What can I say...
i like very much "metal".
So: Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, Within Temptation, Shaaman, Hammerfall, Stratovarius....

^^

And brazilian: Ana Carolina, Adriana Calcanhoto ....

Sarah McLachlan
The Butchies
The Postal Service
Heather Small
Michelle Branch
Kelly Clarkson
The Coors
Josh Groban
Madonna
Britney
Christina
Gwen
TATU

I think that I'd have to agree. :P

i like many Western singers..
Britney Spears, Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Nine Inch Nails, Kelly Clarkson, 3 Doors Down, Hilary Duff of course, Alicia Keys, Norah Jones, Daniel Powter, The Calling and Charlotte Church even tho she's not american.

Michael Jackson.

Well, US music for me is really boring. I'm bored of listening the same music and seeing the same boring artists all time.
Sincerelly I hate Britney; but I think I like Hilary Duff or Ashlee Simpson (but just one or another song on the radio) That's all.

And about Latin music (because Latin music is American Western music too) I think that latin pop music really su*ck*s (including that mexican artists always copies japanese singers style and songs). But I like reggaeton music a little.

Those bands aren't american, just european. But I like european metal too much :P Like: Nightwish, Therion, Tristania, Within Temptation, Theatre of Tragedy, After Forever, Epica, Lacuna Coil, Opera IX, Asrai, Drastique, Cradle of Filth, Xzoriath, Dying Tears.....and much more^^

haha, Irony... Can't believe there is a thread on that.

anyway, KYLIE KYLIE KYLIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

mariah carey (shes R&B though)
leona lewis

Kelly Clarkson
Evanescence
Nickelback
Linkin Park (older)
Katy Rose
Katy Perry
Carrie Underwood (I dislike country alot but she's good)
Panic At The Disco
Lady GaGa

Ashley Tisdale