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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer
lol. I've already said the reasons why and I don't know how I can say it any better. I've already said that there is no point in saying one thing is more "western" than another because at their core, all Japanese pop is western. I don't see the point in getting into the degrees of westernization of each artist because that will always be extremely subjective and all of them are already westernized anyways. Don't Look Back is not an Arabian song, it is a pop song. Green is a pop song, etc etc. There is nothing about the melody or arrangement of those songs that isn't heavily influenced by the west - true old style Japanese music really hardly exists anymore. I shouldn't have to do research on the history of Japanese music and the origin of pop music in Japan for you. I don't mean to sound snippy, but I can only say the same thing so many times. If i were to go into extreme detail it would have to be some long essay about the westernization of the modern world and the Wests projection of how it sees other cultures onto those cultures itself, and I already did that in college.  |
Actually I think establishing some sort of characteristics that makes the japanese pop music different from the US one or even UK one etc interesting. Because, no matter its origins, we all know it's different in certain respects the way it appears today, whether this is because of a different musical tradition, different taste of the targeted audience or different people producing the music. We all know ALL pop music has the same roots, there's no point in even discussing that, but despite that I'm sure you'll agree that the developement of *** mainstream music has taken a different direction than that of the biggest music market?
It's like japanese animé (basically cartoons), that strated out as a purely imported product but developed into something specifically japanese within the genre. Same thing goes for the music.
Of the top of my head I can think of quite a number of things, track lenght (being mentioned in the first post) of a-side being one of them.