Originally Posted by NIMH Rat
She is still vastly popular, and her fanbase does not entirely consist of low-standard dupes. I was just chatting with a student at Doshisha University whose specialty is music; he actually prefers Tokyo Jihen to Shiina's earlier work because her more current jazz stylings and brightness of persona, as opposed to her earlier solo work, seem to him less mannered and, as Glath also pointed out, more refined.
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Just out of curiosity... Where does this jazz myth come from? We've been given three albums by Phase 2 and none of them are majority jazz. In fact, the last two are almost straight pop-rock albums. Yeah, they are more easy-listening now, but not really jazz.
Is Kabukichou no Joou considered to be a jazz song?