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Wow, very nice and meaningful posts here! I have nothing special to add to discussion, because everything was already said.
I am on the same boat with you, guys. When I started to listening to Jpop back in 2006, it was really exciting. There were a huge genre diversity in japanese popular music. Good rock/pop music (Ayumi, Ai Otsuka, hitomi, Nanase Aikawa), good RnB/hip-pop (Namie, Miliyah Kato), ballads (Mika Nakashima), good dance/electro music which was still very different from rest of the world (capsule) etc. etc. etc.
Now Jpop scene is only focused on idol groups which I totally donīt care about. Actually, I think itīs the definition of trash music (Babymetal, AKB48 ...).
Jpop scene stopped to be diverse and thatīs the shame. I really cannot find any artists debuted since 2010+ that grabbed my attention.
I still support artists I used to love back in 2000s (like Namie Amuro, Mika Nakashima, globe, move, Utada Hikaru, Miliyah Kato, DOUBLE, Ami Suzuki, Anna Tsuchiya, Nanase Aikawa, Olivia Lufkin, capsule, Origa, Aco, Nami Tamaki ... maybe few more I cannot remember right now) but most of them donīt realese so much new music nowdays (well, except Namie Amuro, fortunately she is still widely popular) or their music is not what it used to be and thatīs why my interest in Jpop declined drastically in recent years. And I personally think that all of its glory has faded out.
Six years ago, I actually shifted my interest to Cpop which is not so much dance-pop oriented but there is still a huge genre diversity, escpecially in recent years.
Last edited by maddy1111; 24th August 2016 at 11:08 AM.
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