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Subject: Japanese Music vs. American Music!? Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:16 pm
Ever since I became an otaku, I stopped listening to much American music (Teen pop is OK.) because why bother when I discovered something SOOO much better - JPOP!!!!!!! MY LOVE!!!! Je'taime!!!!!!!! In alot of American music, the lyrics are sooo depressing I try to concentrate on the MUSIC and not the WORDS. But when I translate japanese music, I've never seen an emo-lyriced song Plus, Jpop just SOUNDS better than American music It's more up-tempo and mood-lifting than American pop.
Japanese Music
American Music
Rei
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Subject: Re: Japanese Music vs. American Music!? Wed Jun 17, 2009 1:20 am
Examples of awesome J-Pop bands/singers: Kotoko, Kanon Wakeshima, Hitomi Kuroishi, Mami Kawada, BeForU, and SO MANY MOAR!!! <333
Aria Admin
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Subject: Re: Japanese Music vs. American Music!? Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:01 pm
OK, WHO'S THE BITCH THAT VOTED FOR AMERICAN MUSIC????
Rei
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Subject: Re: Japanese Music vs. American Music!? Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:28 am
D; MIMS THAT BETTER NOT HAVE BEEN YOU OR I WILL STAB YOU IN THE B00B
Sailormina
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Subject: Re: Japanese Music vs. American Music!? Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:14 pm
Rei wrote:
D; MIMS THAT BETTER NOT HAVE BEEN YOU OR I WILL STAB YOU IN THE B00B
Nobitch, I voted both. :[
iinfinite playliist <3
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Subject: Re: Japanese Music vs. American Music!? Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:04 pm
-holds up hand guiltily- Japanese music is nice, But I like being able to understand songs without a translator... And sometimes I need uber-sad, angry music when I'm depressed... Which is often xDD.. Don't kill me o.o....!!! I'm allowed to have an opinion, too...
Sailormina
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Subject: Re: Japanese Music vs. American Music!? Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:10 pm
iinfinite playliist <3 wrote:
-holds up hand guiltily- Japanese music is nice, But I like being able to understand songs without a translator... And sometimes I need uber-sad, angry music when I'm depressed... Which is often xDD.. Don't kill me o.o....!!! I'm allowed to have an opinion, too...
Don't worry, I still love you, regardless of what all the others say :3
Aria Admin
Zodiac : Chinese zodiac : Posts : 275 Reputation : 0 Age : 29 Location : Cleveland, Texas
Subject: Re: Japanese Music vs. American Music!? Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:38 pm
American music is so depressing, I'd rather listen to a song I cant understand
Rei
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Subject: Re: Japanese Music vs. American Music!? Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:03 pm
Same here. English music is just too boring because you can understand all of it when you hear it the first time; no insight required.
Sailormina
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Subject: Re: Japanese Music vs. American Music!? Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:04 pm
Isn't that how music should be? I only like Japanese music cause of the energy and power it has: how it can affect you, even if you don't know what the singer is saying.
Rei
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Subject: Re: Japanese Music vs. American Music!? Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:09 pm
Well, there's that, but music should be like writing: you should have to go over it at least once before being able to truly understand it, because there's two meanings to every work of art: a surface meaning and a hidden meaning. Most Japanese songs have hidden meanings that are difficult to see until you translate [or at least transliterate] them, which is why I love them so much~ <3
iinfinite playliist <3
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Subject: Re: Japanese Music vs. American Music!? Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:02 am
Ohwellz, at least I'm still Lub'd <3
Rei
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Subject: Re: Japanese Music vs. American Music!? Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:09 pm
... ^_^;
lonely_at_the_midnight
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Subject: Re: Japanese Music vs. American Music!? Sat Jul 04, 2009 6:29 am
Home 
Plus, Jpop just SOUNDS better than American music 
