[Article] An Outsiders Guide To Asian Pop Music

[nmskalmn]

Excerpt:

Who needs Lady Gaga, One Direction or Justin Bieber when there's a whole breadth of unashamedly catchy pop music coming from our Asian friends in Japan and South Korea. We’re talking about K-Pop and J-Pop and the following bands and solo artists are the stars of their industry. They have fan bases that would put Directioners to shame and make money that rivals the world's biggest acts. Here are the biggest and best of the oft-forgotten K-pop/J-pop worlds.

This article has 17 slides with mini-profiles and videos of various J-pop and K-pop singers. Ayu is included.

Read it: An Outsiders Guide To Asian Pop Music

[TeamAyu2004]

coolness!
thanks for the share!

[tiffanytgs]

so nice to see this =D thx for the share!

[MeltingCORE]

Yessssssssss - spread the Asian music love! : D

[Delicious n Bold]

What an interesting link.
I believe it's saturated with Kpop though. Not enough Jpop. I don't wanna shade AKB48/Arashi/That other jpop girl group that I just forgot the name of, but there are way better artists than them. Only ones I agree with are Ayu and Hikki. Ayu's glory days (everything up to and including MY STORY. (mu) and onward is hit/miss) and almost any Hikki song (some are just trash) just blow away any other artist/group on the list.

[TeamAyu2004]

^ yeah, sadly it's mostly k-pop, but that seems to be whats big right now...
Also, I think this is just one person's tastes in music. It's seems very linear and doesn't include some of the most famous act's out there...

EDIT:

although I do agree with the publisher... if Hikki and ayumi got together to make a song...
OH MY GODS. lol

[Delicious n Bold]

^ I guess.
Kpop is... dang, that requires a whole other thread.
The author should have included: Angela Aki, the old works of Do As Infinity, some Namie Amuro, and ayaka. ayaka has a voice that can slay billions.

[TeamAyu2004]

Do As Infinity and Namie Amuro would be good choices...
I would think Namie and Seiko (more) paved the way for the single girl artist.

I mean Seiko I would think had a HUGE impact on the jpop scene. I like the article, but I think it's just a bunch of this person's Favorite artist.

[emi♡]

eh, I don't think any of those people belong on this list /shrug

They aren't really "western" friendly at all.


I was REALLY surprised that Namie wasn't there though. That's just weird.

I'd have put her in over some of the smaller groups, like KARA.

[Delicious n Bold]

"Here are the biggest and best of the oft-forgotten K-pop/J-pop worlds."
Yet the author forgot to include BIG artists (if we go by sales and such) like BoA, Namie (like I said before), Yumi Arai, Mr. Children, B'z, Souther All Stars. If Mr. Children can still push 700k+ units, then they're still BIG. Heck, even Namie can push big numbers and she isn't even mentioned.

Like TeamAyu2004 said, they're just talking about what is "big" now. It's all subjective and one can argue that Ayu is not as big as some of the other stars on the list. Adding Hikki was a good idea because she still is popular, though (she sneezes and Japan goes ape**** over it, like Dragon Quest).

[Polyrhythm]

Very poorly written. No thank you.

[isthisLOL?]

Awful article and list - included all of the most generic groups there are, left out a lot, badly written...but I'm glad Ayumi is represented in an article directed at western audiences at all.

[Sandy]

Biggest artists? Really? Ayu, AKB48, sure, but where's the rest?