[hpg23]

I find the language barrier thing quite stupid. As the article mentions, American music is heard all around the world, even when a lot of people don´t understand English well or even at all (I mean... even when English is a world language most of the world´s population can´t understand a song). So why is it heard still? Because of the amazing voices and the amazing musical compositions of it? Well, no (not saying that American music is all bad, but you understand my point, right?). I´ts because marketing. And the thing is, we, the fans, are not going to make good publicity of J-Pop, because it´s just not enough. It´s Avex and the other record labels who have to invest money on it and give people a chance... C´mon!!!

Apart from that, yes, people are very CLOSE MINDED and sometimes RACIST. I am so tired of them when they say, here in Spain, "Oh, stop listening to chinese "music" " (refering to J-Pop, that´s it). I would just shot them down, really, it gets on my nerves. And the fun thing is, that those people get extremely offended if they get confused with Mexicans or Latin Americans by foreign people. Really, stop being hypocrital and get yourselves a life.