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I think that this topic is interesting because a very similar thing happened to me. A friend at school asked me to burn him a CD of J-pop songs because he wanted to try them out, but after he listened he told me it sounded like "they just took American songs and made Japanese lyrics". In the end he felt bored and I felt "meh" because then I felt like I had wasted a CD.
At any rate, I can definitely feel similarities at times (especially in the urban area...then again, no matter what country for me, it all sounds the same) but all music derives inspiration from others, as has been stated. But I listen to Japanese music because I like it best. There's just something about that's different from American music.
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