I've pretty much lost all interest in Japanese music.

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Originally Posted by Cloud_Honey

I don't feel the same with J-Pop but I feel the same with Western Music. Everything sounds a rip off of each other, they're always doing "catchy music" to sell like crazy and forget about the quality of that. See Madonna? She worked with the ridiculous (sorry fans but) Timbaland, Justin Timberlake and others, and got a fuzzy album. Serious, WTF was that? The quality of her music was totally lost for me. I miss American Life days.

I agree that, things are starting to sound the same, specifically especially rap music which I usually dislike anyway. But I don't know, all the artists I listen to (female R&B and pop singers) are all dishing it out while over in Japland only a select few to me are keeping my interest. And yeah, Hard Candy was pretty horrible. I gave my copy to my cousin. Timbaland's sounds is SO over unless he can prove he's not just a one trick pony. Example? The music in Hard Candy ended up sounding like Nelly Furtado's Loose rejects.

[Ayumi27]

Well, i actually love Hard Candy, like all Madonna's releases, but that's COMPLETELY off topic haha

I lost interest in Hikki's music some time ago, i was sick and tired of her, and then i searched other styles, and that's when I started loving Koda... After some months, i started listening to Utada again and now I love her music more than ever