Im completely agree with the article!
In my country where the Western stuffs, musics, and value rules, they didn't know how to appreciate songs with the eye-opening or thought-provoking lyrics even the home-country-grown artists here.
Yah, we didn't understand what Ayu said on her music (or other artists), once we read the entire content of the song, we can understand what she/they're saying towards to us.
Lyrics is the one music article that was ALWAYS forgotten to look at.
Maybe we can understand English in western music, but if we read the lyrics VERY CAREFULLY, sometimes it contains filth or non-sense or NOTHING AT ALL.
I didn't mean to critisize but I want to everybody know how to distinguish good music from the "rotten" ones: by reading the lyrics.
In my case, whenever I try some new Jpop artists to listen and like, I usually try to search the translated lyrics of their entire music discography.
If I found out that the lyrics are totally bad, I will not continue to listen it.
If I found it very nice, I'll continue.
Ayu influenced me even more on lyric reading and even writing some of it.
*breathes in*
That's it...
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Two of my favourite artists(Ayumi Hamasaki and Wir sind Helden) in one article, great! The language barrier really is a big problem, many people listening to songs with just pointless, meaningless and boring lyrics say they don't like japanese music because they don't understand it, it's a bit of racism in it(not liking something because it's different)
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EXACTLY!
Language barrier is one of the major factors why they didn't know how to appreciate good music from good artist.