[koumori]

I fail to see your point, I'm really sorry.

As someone who has lived in the U.K all their life, I have obviously experienced english music all my life too. And even though I guess on the 'surface' of the industry, English-languaged music has seemed to take a different route to Asian-languaged music, I will always remember the music I grew up with.

How anyone can say bands such as The Cranberries or The Cardigans are as generic as modern day bands astound me, and also I have to put in a band called James, who I've always listened to - whose lyrics and energy also bring me to tears as much as someone such as Ayu might.

There's always going to be that golden memory of discovering asian music if you're not actually from an asian country; I still remember mine with fondness and with certain aspects of what is in kind an 'arguement' in defence of your love of asian music, I can kind of agree - since I love asian music that much as well. My top five Japanese singers/bands are Ayumi Hamasaki, SCANDAL, alan, Koda Kumi and Utada Hikaru, and I genuinely love everything they put out there, how they talk and communicate to the fans, and just how differently they forward their careers. English music, drastically different in a lot of ways, still puts forward the same feelings for me.

I can't cut out English music for me, because as Emiko said, English music in turn you can dance to, make you feel sexy - there are gems in the forms of either single songs from different artists or artists as a whole in the English/American industry.

I grew up with English music and I'm guessing you did too. It's part of your culture, and as you said, it's music 'you can understand on the first listen'. Maybe that's why you don't like it as much, I don't know. But there are strong, meaningful artists that speak English and I just don't understand why you're ignoring them based on just the language they speak.

Asian music yes, is different in ways, but there's always going to be a side to the music industry you don't like. You're either ignoring or haven't discovered that side to the Asian music world yet, probably because you're not Asian. But you are concentrating on the 'bad' side to the English music industry, and with no offence this is very narrow-minded and naive.

And I also slightly take offence, at you saying the very native language I speak can't be turned into a meaningful song - which I believe, and many will agree, it can be.

Personally I listen to more 90's music than modern day English bands, just because that's where my tastes lie. You need to experiment much more and broaden your horizons alot more. There's always something.

Ayumi Hamasaki is inspired by English artists as are other Japanese singers/bands, and I'm sure English/American artists are inspired by Japanese singers/bands. If they can see the good music no matter what language, I'm sure you can make more of an effort.