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For me personally, I just sort of grew out of Japanese pop music. My interest started going towards Western mainstream pop as well as EDM (I'm an EDM junkie at the moment). I really stopped caring for J-Pop starting 2012. A few reasons is because K-Pop started overtaking the Japanese market, and a lot of the artists I loved listening to slowed down on releases or are out of the scene (still waiting on Yuna Ito or Meisa Kuroki...)
In the end, I just don't find any new acts interesting and I'm not interested in boy groups/girl groups. The only artists I honestly follow are Ayu, Utada, Kuu, Namie, and Ai Otsuka. The J-Pop scene to me is stale, while my interest in EDM is at an all-time high.
It's sad, honestly. I used to listen to nothing but J-Pop. It helped me a lot through middle school and high school. But now it's like, okay whatever lol
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