seishi-sama said: And Japanese music is mostly crap, especially those generic pop idols and visual kei bands (which are also pop). Yeah, let's just judge an entire country's music based on the mainstream. That's a great idea. |
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seishi-sama said: Japanese music is mostly crap I disagree. Not for all the songs but the anime related ones, maybe you just don't understand the words they're saying but for someone like me who actually understands, japanese music are better than english. Have both an english and japanese singer sing the same song and see which one comes out better. |
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SBH said: English. Japanese music is cool and all but I prefer music that I can understand the words. Lol, I don't understand Spanish but I listen to Spanish Rap. Same reason. I like understanding what I'm listening too. I do usually like the beat of J-Pop and such, though. |
| I love all kinds of music. It depends on the genre. I love any foreign music, not just English and Japanese. |
| As long as I like the song I don't care which language it's in. ^^ But I prefer music in swedish or english that I understand. |
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aichanXD said: seishi-sama said: Japanese music is mostly crap I disagree. Not for all the songs but the anime related ones, maybe you just don't understand the words they're saying but for someone like me who actually understands, japanese music are better than english. Have both an english and japanese singer sing the same song and see which one comes out better. Did I say anything about the words? I was talking about the music. A song could have the best lyrics in the world, but if the music in this song is crap, then this song is crap. Words doesn't matter to me. Of course there are some good bands and musicians in Japan who make good music but there's only few of them. Well, maybe I'm asking too much since I'm a professional musician myself, but it's just my opinion. |
| English when talking about the language, but as far as geography goes, I enjoy Scandinavian music the most |
seishi-sama said: aichanXD said: seishi-sama said: Japanese music is mostly crap I disagree. Not for all the songs but the anime related ones, maybe you just don't understand the words they're saying but for someone like me who actually understands, japanese music are better than english. Have both an english and japanese singer sing the same song and see which one comes out better. Did I say anything about the words? I was talking about the music. A song could have the best lyrics in the world, but if the music in this song is crap, then this song is crap. Words doesn't matter to me. Of course there are some good bands and musicians in Japan who make good music but there's only few of them. Well, maybe I'm asking too much since I'm a professional musician myself, but it's just my opinion. Being a "professional musician" doesn't change the fact that your opinion is uninformed. Disregarding an entire country's music as bad just shows how ignorant you are. |
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XerXes said: I personally like english music more. Because i don't like jap's singing voice. Too emotionless. Woah woah woah. Hold it. Did you just say emotionless O.O I really dont believe that, I feel that jap singers have more emotion which was one of the major factors i switched eng to jpop (+kpop cpop) |
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KCT said: I feel that jap singers have more emotion qft. In certain cases, Utada Hikaru does the 'emotion' for me. |
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Karura said: Language has no meaning in music to me. I agree with you. |
| Mostly Japanese music |
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KCT said: XerXes said: I personally like english music more. Because i don't like jap's singing voice. Too emotionless. Woah woah woah. Hold it. Did you just say emotionless O.O I really dont believe that, I feel that jap singers have more emotion which was one of the major factors i switched eng to jpop (+kpop cpop) The majority of pop signers lack real emotion and enthusiasm. Such is the recent nature of the genre. The major difference between American and Japanese pop is usually the vocal style. Japanese Female Pop singers, a lot of the time, fall into that higher pitched annoying sequel voice that most of you cream yourself over for whatever retarded reasons. And lol@ the professional musician comment. |
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| It's hard to say for me. To me, if the lyrics are deep, and it has a strong melody to back it up then I'll like it. Right now I don't listen to a lot of American pop music because most of the songs as of the last couple of years annoy me. BEETHOVEN FTW~! |
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| i love jap music.. addicted to it XD i found like over 30 different bands within a month lol. |
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| emtio aisakku said: KCT said: XerXes said: I personally like english music more. Because i don't like jap's singing voice. Too emotionless. Woah woah woah. Hold it. Did you just say emotionless O.O I really dont believe that, I feel that jap singers have more emotion which was one of the major factors i switched eng to jpop (+kpop cpop) The majority of pop signers lack real emotion and enthusiasm. Such is the recent nature of the genre. The major difference between American and Japanese pop is usually the vocal style. Japanese Female Pop singers, a lot of the time, fall into that higher pitched annoying sequel voice that most of you cream yourself over for whatever retarded reasons. And lol@ the professional musician comment. honestly i would like to know which ones you think lack emotion and enthusiasm, and of course am not saying all jpop singers have that emotion & enthusiasm. I think the majority of jpop singers have more of it than american singers. well my example would be Rurutia or An Cafe for JRock |
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| I like both. |
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| The Accuser (which is me) doesn't discriminate territorial boundaries when it comes to music. If I like it, I like it. I shall now promote myself now. http://www.last.fm/user/SkySplitter That is my human avatar. MUWAHAHAHAHA yeah........... |
| Depends. I prefer j-pop to the new English music. But like Golden Oldies as much as J-pop. |
Avarance said: I like this thing called variety. |
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| Both. I end up listening more to english music though, due to the fact that it's more easily accessible. |
Frequencity said: Because everything must be catagoreized in our society.I love asobi seksu. they a new york city band but some of the lyrics are in japanese. does this mean I love jap or eng music? why can't I just like music regardless or language/country of origin. |
| I'm very nitpicky when it comes to lyrics that don't make sense so I prefer Japanese songs. But if its not rap or screamer music, I'll listen to it in any language. Wether I like it or not depends on the tune and singing. |
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Blaze-San said: Frequencity said: Because everything must be catagoreized in our society.I love asobi seksu. they a new york city band but some of the lyrics are in japanese. does this mean I love jap or eng music? why can't I just like music regardless or language/country of origin. Because we wouldn't be enough elite without that "J" in J-rock :P |
| I prefer gibberish english music like RideBack or Ghost In The Shell OSTs.. but I like english in general.. |
Nijo said: Blaze-San said: Frequencity said: Because everything must be catagoreized in our society.I love asobi seksu. they a new york city band but some of the lyrics are in japanese. does this mean I love jap or eng music? why can't I just like music regardless or language/country of origin. J-rock :P  |
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| Depends on the voice, depends on the lyrics. But i do have to say i prefer Japanese music. |
ap93 said: My music list probably consists of 5% English music, 20% instrumental music (From Mozart to Trance to random piano pieces), 25% Cantonese music, and 50% Japanese music. Your list is like mine... except it's 15% English music, 35% Cantonese music, 50% instrumental music, and 0% Japanese music(oh noes!?!). |
| I listen to music in many languages... |
| I like some J-rock songs and random songs from anime OSTs buuut~ I mostly listen to English songs and instrumental music xD |
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| By amount of songs I've got on my cellphone and listen while on bus: Dutch>Japanese>English>Russian At home, I listen mainly to Polish and Dutch songs, with a little of English. Different languages suit different music genres. |
| Howabout neither. Instrumental and post rock ftw |
| My music taste isnt bound by language, but just weather I like it or not. If I like a song, I dont care what language its in. Hell, I even like Polka! Dont ask me why, I just do. It might have something to do with my mothers side of the family being almost entirely Polish. But anyway, my favorite type of music is Classic Rock, (Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Aerosmith, etc) followed by J-pop (mostly anime music) |
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Osaka117 said: My music taste isnt bound by language, but just weather I like it or not. If I like a song, I dont care what language its in. Hell, I even like Polka! Dont ask me why, I just do. It might have something to do with my mothers side of the family being almost entirely Polish. Polka (which itself is Czech not Polish) is now completely dead in Poland. I don't even remember when I last heard a polka on radio or TV or even wedding parties. Not in the last 5 years, at least. |
| I never claimed to be an expert on Polka, just that I liked it. And its really dead? Thats a shame... |
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