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It might be the casting director's choice. It's not Ayumi who puts out the casting calls for these actors. Ayumi might be the star but she's ultimately not the one who does all this stuff.
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Don't think so. People often state that she didn't have much creative control over her PVs. She did have quite a lot, certainly since WHATEVER. If you watch NTV 2004 interview, you'll see scenes of her discussing what the PV [WHATEVER] will be like. And it's seriously her talking and others listening, like boss and employees. It's known she was picking the extra ladies for the crowd scenes for my name's WOMEN (there was a girl at AHO who was an extra in that PV, she posted backstage photos and wrote about how she was picked). I think it's her idea to have non-Asians.
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So it's alright for (us) non-Japanese people to have a fascination with Japanese culture, but it's wrong for Japanese people to have a fascination with Western culture?
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Exactly
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Yeah. Both pop and rock are two American genres, when they came to Japan they for some unknown reason became J-pop and J-rock, it's not like the European counterpart even made it to E-pop.
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Well, I guess it was Asia vs. rest of the world comparison. Hence all the J-, K-and C-pop's and rock's.... I think most of the "rest of the world" is highly unaware of what's modern music like in Asia. They wouldn't be able to mention a single artist, while everyone from Europe knows at least some American or Australian artists.
It's not like it's only Asia, becouse I guess South America is a bit similar. I have no idea what artists are there creating in South American countries, to be honest... I got to know about one, but I don't even remember her name now. When I first found out about her, it was from a guy who seemed obsessed with her as much as I was obsessed with Ayumi -- I imidiatelly thought "Oh, it's almost like when I discovered Ayu. The same kind of stituation."