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I avoided this thread for so long because I knew it would make me mad.
Asian music, aside from folk/traditional music, is usually just inspired by Western music. I don't understand how people can say 'oh Western music is uncreative and all the lyrics are the same and there's no emotion and it's shallow, there are no good US artists, blah blah'. Not all Western music is good, and yeah, quite a bit the mainstream variety is shallow and cruddy, but most people on this board listen to mainstream Japanese/Chinese/Korean artists, so, what's the difference, exactly? Look how many popular Asian artists don't write their own lyrics or compose the music and are basically just a pretty face with an ok voice. I love Mongolian music, for example, but really, the music there is only strating to modernize now (even albums released a few years ago have a horribly dated sound), and you know what, most of it sounds like Western music :O homg.
Western music is not limited to what you see on TV/hear on the radio, nor is it bad. Geez, people...
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