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Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan
Her style was a good balance of J-POP and western influences, songs that wouldn't really be possible on western radar. Now however the J-POP-ness in her music is almost nonexistent. Mostly due to her very common usage of western produced back tracks that she buys and overlays lyrics onto. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but she certainly doesn't have the same amount of access to the "good" tracks that say, Beyoncé would. She her options, imo, are on the cheaper side. Her brand is stronger in Japan, so she'd get far better productions by using Japanese producers (in theory).
The layering of her music from the golden era of J-POP is largely gone, and I find her tracks to sound a bit hollow.
Obviously this won't be the case for everything. But I hope what I wrote makes sense.
And many of you are super fans, so it's very hard to disappoint you. Which is a great thing. But to not be able to see where other people are basing their opinions on is kind of a problem. Living in a bubble surrounded by people with the same ideals would be bad for anyone lol.
So while you may disagree (again, that's fine!) at least try to see our point of view lol.
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You deserve a day full of amazing things because of this post. You said everything.
I miss her jpopness in her songs. Sometimes I think I judge her too much, but other times I feel like 90% of people in this thread don't really have a critical eye to her music andd would love an album full of her farts.
It's not that this unconditional love is a bad thing, I just believe that if you want to listen to good western sounding music there are plenty of artists out there to give you the right songs, not Kumi.
I continue checking her news because of the love I once had for her music, because nowadays she doesn't remind me at all of the Kumi I adored back in the day.