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Utada already tried unique music. It's called Exodus and it's her best album. It also TANKED. (for a variety of reasons)
And I really, sincerely doubt that Namie Amuro has intentions to break into the US market. All of her songs (well, the singles that I listened too) do sound western, but they also lack the bite that today's Top 40 radio has. They need to be clubby-ier. I don't think any Japanese artist today could break into the mainstream (Top 40) Western market. Maybe 2NE1, but they are South Korean. Last edited by TurtleFu : 2013.07.11 at 02:59 AM. |
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As if Exodus is remotely as powerful as Deep River... also her most personal work.
Japanese metal seems to be doing alright. Boris is definitely a strong player in the West.
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Okay fine, Exodus is second best, after Deep River. Deep River is more emotionally powerful but Exodus is more sonically experimental.
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That being said, Matan-San was talking about Namie Amuro aiming for the western market, but I highly doubt that is what they were going for with the English lyrics- I think they were mainly aiming for some kind of aesthetic- what that is I don't exactly know. On top of that, FEEL does not have an international/US release like Exodus or This is the One (well, to my knowledge anyway- and no, Taiwan versions do not count, every AVEX artist has those :-p). The "western" dance music feel you get I won't deny- but it's oh so much better done than the majority of EDM I've heard in a long time, especially from Japan and most definitely from AVEX.
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My R.E.M. journey has taken a weird late 70's punk sidequest.
It's not hard to see why. I made it to Document and revisited Murmur. Obviously I wanted to check out Wire's Pink Flag. I grooved on that, and then hit the next logical /mu/-essential - Gang of Four's Entertainment! After being thoroughly impressed I somehow finally made the jump into Trans-Europa Express and loved every minute of it. I don't see how anyone can say Bowie's Low is better.
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Totally thought we were talking about this bis until I finally confirmed they were in fact females singing in the previous video.
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So, theneedledrop rated Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's latest album an 8 out of 10, does this mean the elitists can now take Jpop seriously?
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Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is J-Pop designed for pretentious music critics: it's not actually any good, and they think the visceral color explosion and random imagery is a marker of depth. They are reading it as a parody of J-Pop when it really is just normal J-Pop.
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^More like J-Pop is a parody of good music, amirite?
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Rudimental - Baby (feat. MNEK & Sinead Harnett)
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