Asian music VS. Western music (in terms of creativity)

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by emiko

@Andrenakoi: I think it's because most people leave the western scene for the jpop scene...

I mean you know, at one point I think we all did...

but I think it is really important to realize that mainstream "what they play on the radio" is not really...It's not everything. It's not really indicative of the sheer amount of artists and their creativity.

There are a lot of really amazing artists in the Western scene right now...but it's just that the target demographics don't really listen to them...

but I mean, who cares...do people at ahs listen to only what the japanese target demographic listens to? No lol to say so would be hilarious.

We might have more a little more in common with them. If they listened to everything we did...stars like Alan would be selling 200K a single lol

Well... i understand that someone can totally ignore western music scene, there is no problem with it... I just don't like when people who obviously don't now anything about it starts talking about how bad it is... not everything that is hot in the US is hot in the rest of the world, not all big american singers/bands are big world singers/bands... and even when we talk about the ones that are big worldwide, there is aways something like "omg! beyonce is so ****ty and aways sings about sex!" when she is one of the most classy half-naked pop singers overthere, for example.

North American mainstream music scene has a LOT of variety, Europe's one too... Even Japanese mainstream acts aren't all the same... I can't really say that one of those is crappy, cause there are the ones where I don't know many artists (I LOVE Mylene Farmer, think that Kylie is ok and that Laura Pausini is boring... but other that, I don't know anything about EU music), and the scenes I kown and dislike there is aways some artist I love (I don't really like Japanese scene, but I LOVE Hikki and Ayu).

Western female pop singers like to use sex-appeal... But men in Japan thinks that kawaii girls are sexy, so, in the end... when Britney is naked doing all the "i'm so hot" faces and Ai Otsuka is talking with a childish voice, isn't it all the same? Using what that culture thinks it's sexy in order to sell music? And when random pop singers releases recyclied sexual music over here and random pop singers releases cheese love songs over there, isn't it the same thing again?

well... this is it... I just think that if u r going to say that this or that music market is bad, you need to know it and understand it's context