Have you ever lost interest in J-pop?
 

So, have you ever lost interest in J-pop?

I'm asking this, because this is the way I feel toward J-Pop music right now. I believe Austin did a post like this a while ago? I think that I've been gradually losing interest for a year or 2, maybe 3? Probably because my top idols haven't really released anything that interesting. Also, I've been listening to a lot of Korean music lately and I realized how much more talented Korean singers are compared to Japanese artists vocal-wise, IMO. I've been in love with artists from the Korean label Pastel Music. Awesome indie pop and rock music. :heart But now back to J-Pop...

Losing interest in:
- Ayu's music has been going downhill since MY STORY. It's been getting quite boring and NEXT LEVEL is a horrible album. I think I only listened to Secret, GUILTY and NEXT LEVEL once or twice. :shrug
- Koda is getting mediocre all over again. More TABOO, less ballads please!
- Ami Suzuki... I liked the direction she took with CONNETTA. Dolce wasn't that bad either! But Supreme Show was a major disappointment. And then she goes and release something like Reincarnation... Oh God...
- Ai Otsuka, to be honest, I don't remember the last time I listened to her music...
- Hello! Project... Morning Musume, Aya Matsuura, Abe Natsumi, GAM, Miki Fujimoto, Ongaku Gatas, Berryz, C-ute, all shuffles and sub-groups... I don't care for them anymore. I passed that H!P phase. XD
- ZONE, HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR, REMIOROMEN, Kou Shibasaki, Tommy heavenly6, the brilliant green, RYTHEM... They are all fading away too.

To be honest, hot "new" artists like GReeeeN, Stereopony, SCANDAL, Ikimonogakari, Kobukuro, Perfume don't interest me as much as I thought I would be.


Reasons I'm still following the J-Pop scene:
- BoA. Korean, Japanese, English. She still has it. :heart
- ayaka is the only exciting "new" artist. She's going on hiatus though.
- hitomi & aiko. Their music will always be timeless.
- Namie Amuro's music is getting better and better over the years IMO.
- Shoko Nakagawa. Her music is so versatile.
- Maki Goto. Everything she has done so far with avex has been awesome.
- ERIKA, there might be hope she comes back? XD

So yes, there might be hope! LOL. There's still 8 artists out of 20-30 something J-Pop artists I used to listen to that I still like!

How about you, ever felt sick of the J-Pop scene?

not that serious, but i totally lost interest with ai otsuka's music. what she's doing now is just so different compared to her first 2 album.

and koda kumi, i totally have no idea, i just dont want to care her new music anymore

:no J-POP is part of my life
i never heard any other songs than J-POP now

:no for me

guess it helps that if you support a range of artistes , in that will keep your mind occupied from losing interest in jpop

@asongforXX
I understand what you're saying. The Jpop music isn't what it used to be. Even though i'm just a fan since '06/'07 i can say that some artists are loosing their touch. I agree with Ai Otsuka - i still have hopes she'll do smth like Cherish/Planetarium again.
MM has become boring, their last album couldn't reack 40k if i remember correctly.
Koda Kumi disappointed me the most - TRICK is just awful, it's nothing compared to Kingdom and Black Cherry.
Ayu, Utada and Namie are still my fav, and they don't disappoint me, but the others... I've become very picky. And of course some Jrock bands like Dir en grey never let me down.

BTW can you tell me what are your fav groups/artists?

no I have not, I listen to Japanese, local, western and little bit Korean that why I don't lose interest. maybe u lost interest coz u limit yourself to few artist and genre.

Back in 2006, when I only listened to Ayumi & Utada (I didn't know anyone else) I started to get bored and lost interest for some months... Ever since, I have lost interest in particular singers or bands, but not J-pop itself

I completely agree about Ai. More Cherish/Planetarium!
MM is blah since Yossie and Miki left. Addition of LL and JJ doesn't do anything.
Koda for me was best in the "secret" days.

As for my favorite artists, except those I listed in the first post, are only Korean artists: Girls' Generation, Donawhale, Taru, Yozoh, Epik High, KARA, Wonder Girls, Brown Eyed Girls, Clazziquai Project, Misty Blue, Belle Epoque, Nell, Davichi, Loveholic, Son Dam Bi, SHINee, Humming Urban Stereo...


I used to listen to 40 something Japanese artists. Now it has come down to 20 and currently about 10. My Korean discography has almost 50 artists!

The thing about Japanese music is that it doesn't offer that much variety. For Korean music, I listen to anything from pop, dance, hip-hop, jazz, electronica, indie pop, indie rock, alternative, rock to R&B. When it comes to Japanese music, it's between pop (Ayu, Koda, Namie, BoA...), rock (HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR, ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION...) and in the middle (ayaka, Kaela, aiko, the brilliant green...). I don't really like urban/hip-hop Japanese music somehow. :shrug

I've never lost full interest but sometimes I can feel my interest wavering time to time when it comes to J-pop. I suppose the only artists that keep me interested are artists like Shoko Nakagawa, Ayu and BoA, but I'm always checking out new artists and new releases that come out to see if my interest gets restored or boosted. I'm very similar to you asongforXX, my Korean discography is starting to surpass my Japanese quite a bit. I'm way more into Korean music right now (especially Big Bang, Lee Hyori and Son Dam Bi :heart), I love the diversity I can find in the Korean music scene.

I'll admit that some of the acts that I've following for years don't interest me as much as they used to. I'm still into J-Pop, but there are artists that I'm not into as much as I used to. :shrug

I remember back in 2002 until 2005, J-pop was like... my life.

Ayumi, no matter how much I love her, has been really mediocre as of lately. I initially liked "NEXT LEVEL" but the album just got boring so fast (except for "Days" I can still listen to it and not get bored!). There's that part of me though that believes she CAN pick herself up again.

I stopped having high hopes for Kumi as soon as "Black Cherry" was released. That album was just a mess with the exception of 2 songs. "Kingdom" was nice but it was no "secret" or "BEST~second session~". When she released "TABOO" I thought there still was hope, but then "TRICK" came out and all hope was lost. Followed by "It's all love!!" and "faraway" - I basically just gave up on her. I still follow her career, but I'm not expecting anything out of her anymore.

As for Ai Otsuka. "LOVE LETTER" wasn't terrible, but it wasn't the Ai Otsuka I fell in love with. "LOVE COOK" was just an amazing album. How she went from that to "LOVE LETTER" I dunno. I hope she can go back and start creating quirky, fun, addictive songs as well as her amazing ballads.

My BoA fandom died when "MADE IN TWENTY" was released but it was slowly coming back with "THE FACE". "Vivid" dropped her back down again but then "eien" was released and that just saved her. Hopefully when she returns to Japan, she'll follow that path.

hitomi, Mika Nakashima, Do As Infinity, Eri Nobuchika, Namie Amuro, ayaka, Shoko Nakagawa (I should thank you asongforXX, since you were always talking about her, I decided to check her out lol) and a few others are the only reason I still follow J-pop.

I don't like "Jpop" itself, and only liked it for 1 year... I think (and hope I don't offend anyone) that jpop is (and ever were) a lot of talentless cute musicians with good producers playing recycled songs until they 2 or 3 years fame spam is over... There ARE very talented people in jpop, but most of it is IMO much more produced and fake than western pop

The only reason that I still keep folowing what's happening in jpop is that I think that Ayumi Hamasaki and Hikaru Utada are two of the most talented pop acts in the world right now (Ayu as a producer and performer, Utada as a musician)

And I respect Ai Otsuka, Namie Amuro and some jpop and jrock bands also... Even If I'm not in love with their music

I always say this to myself also. Not just about Ayu, but for every other artists too. That's why I'm still visiting AHS a lot. When Ayu, Koda, Ai etc are releasing something new, I always hope I'll love it. It's often not the case, but we never know!

I had no idea! Wow! Well, I'm glad you like Shokotan also. :D

you are right, i remember i was totally into jpop long ago. now im in cpop cuz i understand it and cuz its interesting.
jpop is getting boring, artists i still follow are: aoyama thelma, satomi takasugi, miliyah kato, JYONGRI, alan, ayu, namie amuro, and i discovered totally hot artist (thanks to this forum) HIDEMI UEMATSU. she's that amazing i cant wait for her debut album. she's A-M-AAAAAAAA-ZING.

and thats it :/

The only person I've really wanted to quit on was Ayu and that was when (miss)understood had came out, I loved the singles, but a majority of the album tracks sucked imo except for Rainy Day and Criminal, those were my faves. But I still gave her a chance and Secret was prolly her best, Guilty was okay...my favorite track was an interlude(The Judgment Day), and then Next Level which I'm surprised I like...although I only like the single tracks, Curtain Call, Next Level, Love 'N' Hate, and Bridge To The Sky.

Namie I don't think I'll ever get tired of her, as she grows by age she finds the more mature sound for music that works for her.

Koda...well TRICK is blah imo only 3 new album tracks I really like, and Bling Bling Bling is a joke, can't even believe it made it to the album!

Ai Otsuka, I love her to death, and even though Love Letter wasn't as good as her other albums I still liked it cause I like her music.

BoA, another amazing artist I couldn't give her up even if I wanted to.

alan she truly is amazing and one of the best debuts I've heard, it's too bad her popularity isn't huge, but I'm sure she'll get there as time goes on., and

ayaka, I love her as well there's nothing from her that I've listened to that I haven't liked, she's good!

I'm actually the opposite of you...All the artists you are losing interest in, are the one's I'm just discovering, like Ami Suzuki. I love Supreme Show, because I like that sound.

Furthermore, all the artists you find timeless, I find boring, like ayaka and hitomi.

I do agree with you about Ayu. I don't really listen to her at all anymore, and I also agree with you about the new artists, like GREEN and Perfume. I just can't get into Perfume...even though they sing in a style I like.

I don't think I'm losing interest in jpop...because to me, it's just music. I will say that a lot of people aren't doing anything fun at all.

So I'm currently spending more time looking up indie artists and artists I may have looked over. Like Emi Hinouchi. That girl needs way more love.

I've been happy with a lot of the singer/songwriter artists I've found. They seem to interest me more than any of the bigger acts.

For me, artists like hikki and kuu are timeless lol I could listen to the same kuu songs over and over, and I mostly do, and the same is true with hikki. Probably only because I love them though.

The only artist that is disappointing me atm, is Ayu...which really makes me sad.

i kind of lost interest in the sense that i much prefer k-pop to j-pop now. i still like j-pop, but i just listen to the people i've always liked.. there aren't many new people that i'm interested in at all. i find k-pop idols much more fun in general so i don't keep up with j-pop except for a few people, but its been like this for a while.

in all honesty, nope. i'm still interested. i only got into jpop in late 2005/early 2006. but back then i only knew of utada and kumi. now i listen to ALOT of artists :yes

I've lost interest in some artists that I liked, mainly from JE. My interest in those groups have pretty much flatlined except for a song or two. I really don't know why I still DL their stuff.

me too. i used to love KAT-TUN but i don't really care about them anymore, i haven't downloaded any of their music since queen of pirates either.

i used to listen to J-pop 24/7. but now, i listen to whatever, really. J-pop, American, Spanish, etc. i still think J-pop is my core interest (as i'm taking Japanese classes & all), but i do agree that post 2006, J-pop's taken a dive (i've been listening since 2003). of course, there are still groups & artists i fully support, but none of these "new" artists are like the previous generations.

but, i also think there are great acts out there. you just need to do some searching. however, it's much easier to find underground American artists than J-pop for me.

No because most of the Japanese music/Japanese artists I've listened to are indie or of various genres other than J-Pop.

I've been expanding my taste in J-Pop though, finally getting around to listening to artists whose names I see mentioned here on AHS.

I don't think I could lose interest in J-pop, because mainstream music here is just so much worse :(

I don't listen to as much J-Pop now as I did 3 years ago, my tastes are broadening slightly to get back into English music again, but I don't think I'll ever be able to give it all up and go back to what's "hot" on the radio.

I'm every day discovering new artists and there are lots who I think I'll always love, being Ayu, ZARD, Namie, L'arc and more. I think that J-pop music offers something unique, even its most boring offers are better than what I hear on the radio.

J-pop still has a long life to go with me yet and I've barely started to become interested in Cantopop and K-Pop. :D

i did for about a year? i started really hating ayu after she released MY STORY. so i took a break from her/j-pop, i wasn't really a huge fan of any other j-pop artists. then i came back and became a huge koda kumi freak, caught back up on ayu and loved her new releases so much that i got back into my ayu obsession. then i discovered a lot of other j-pop artists i love now! so yeah i have lost interest before but now i'm very interested in it :yes and even if i'm disappointed by a release from one of my favorite artists there's usually another one just around the corner to look forward to. but ayu will mainly keep my interest in it, she's really good at not disappointing me

no. I really dislike mainstream English music, so J-pop is an excellent alternative. I'm constantly impressed by what the artists I like are releasing, so I'm kept interested. However some of my favourite artists haven't been releasing very much lately.

:hi5

that's precisely 1 of the many reasons why I crossed over to jpop 3 years ago

Eng music was getting so boring/stagnant I needed a change & it helped that my younger sister has been listening to it for the past 7/8 years so jpop was naturally the next alternative for me to listen to

well i'm a jpop newbie, so it might longer for me~

but i have lost interest in ai already

I'm not a huge j-pop fan to begin with. I listen to a variety of genres and I cherry pick my favorites from everything; oldies, classical, French pop, Latin, trance, new age, accapella, Swedish dance, you name it. Apparently, I cherry picked Ayu as one of them. I think I only like about 8 songs from Ayu. Even though that's a very small percentage of her songs, that's still a lot more than other Japanese artists in which I only like about 1 or 2 songs. So for j-pop as a whole, I had only little interest for it to begin with.

^that's how I am with Namie.

I love her...but...I realised that I only love I think exactly 9 songs out of her entire discography.

I just can't get into her 90's pop. I'm sorry namie.

:O at not liking Supreme Show... awesome album :P

I agree about Ayu's albums mostly, though I'd say that My Story and miss Understood were still pretty good with a lot of great moments on each. Secret was still a great album, but I could see the quality starting to slip. Guilty I thought was her worst, but than Next Level came out and was even worse than that.

I've never really felt sick of the j-pop scene. If I can't get into current J-Pop, there is tons of great material form the 70s through the 90s to keep me occupied until the next good current release comes along.

:yes Same for me

Well... I first started liking Jpop in 2003- but I only liked 1 or atists. I never cared for it at that time and I just started loving Jpop again in mid- 2007. So im still good.

I totally agree with your opinions on Ai Otsuka- her music just isn't as good anymore. :(

I've only lost interest with Namie, I still listen to her from time to time. But I can't get into her pre-STYLE stuff all too much.

and I love Ai Otsuka's change so far, her ballads are gorgeous and her lyrics are more mature. I wouldn't mind another CHU-LIP song nonetheless.

OMG I Agree so much with ur post! Altho I still like Ai, her music isn't as good as before : ( i'm hoping the new single will turn things around haha.

Ayu has gone down after secret like WAY down D: ~! her newest album is just bad IMO. I had some interest in it because of curtain call and next level but then I heard the rest and it was just ugh bad. GUILTY is in the same boat too, but I dislike this album even more. marionette might as well be used for the next nightmare before christmas movie >_> ~!

koda kumi... altho I Don't like her music at all pretty much, she was better as a sexy singer. what happened to juicy: to be continued lmao

Although i do like kobukuro ~! lol! they are really good IMO XD and I like Perfume's new single ahaha but yeah not many good new artists lately except ayaka who's going bye bye for now D: ~!

AND OMG AIKO <333 YES I SO AGREE LOL her music is always steady : ) ~! So amazing haha! I was surprised her himitsu album didn't sell 300k D: ~! And I agree on namie too : )!

Honestly to sum it up I only listen to namie, hikki, ai, ayaka, and aiko mainly now lol. Sometimes kobukuro.

American pop is getting better tho haha no more rap domination lol! I don't mind rap but l didn't like how it was dominating the charts at one point >< I need my pop music hahhaha! And C-pop is always nice : ) ~!

yeah it's terrible . I missed the material that she put out during her LOVE COOK era

Cherish & Planetarium were no doubt some of otsuka's best tunes that she has put out in her career

i used to like her crazy song's like happy day and the miso stuff, but songs like do positive, they dont even make me feel any positive :no

yeah & the PV didn't helped that much either :no

You know... I never actually really did answer the question lol I just rambled on about how my favourite artists (or used to be favourite) disappointed me. Anyways... no I haven't lost interest in J-Pop. If I did I wouldn't be constantly logging on to here and JPM lol. My obsession with it just isn't what it was like before. I'll actually just listen to anything that sounds good to me now, regardless if it's Japanese, English, Korean, French, etc.

there's a lot of j-pop artists that bore me now, i really used to love it but these days they're all sounding really awful to me save for a few artists like Kuu, Maki Goto, Ami, and Tenjochiki (since they do japanese stuff too) but the others i'm losing a lot of interest in. they all sound so stale now.

so i just listen to k-pop most of the time now since it sounds so much better imo, and always fun to listen to too.

I like some of Namie's 90's pop songs. Like CAN YOU CELEBRATE? or Dreaming I was dreaming. But other than that... Not really. Actually, I don't listen to anything between her first album to STYLE. Well, 1 or 2 tracks from STYLE.

Same goes for Koda. I don't like her music pre-secret or post-BEST~ss~ except some Kingdom tracks that were quite decent.

I find the single-minded popularity of Johnny's Jimusho boring, to be honest. J-pop, that is Japanese popular music, used to have such diversity in terms of what was popular. I think I wouldn't mind the Johnny's phenomenon so much if there was some variety at least. Where are the shocks to the system? Chitose Hajime, bird, Ringo Shiina, Cocco, UA, Rip Slyme, Nanase Aikawa, Chara, Hitoto Yo, Shonen Knife, m-flo, Cornelius, Angela Aki, Tomoyasu Hotei, Puffy, The Pillows, Mongol 800, Pizzicato Five, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. It used to be so exciting.

I'm just starting to get into mihimaru GT and I hope they won't disappoint in the end. I'm also thinking about giving Remioromen, Aqua Timez, and Sukima Switch a try.

I think English-language music is beginning to get interesting again, so I'm listening to it more and more these days. Amy Winehouse, for one. And now Lady GaGa!

I will have to say that my relationship with Ayu's music sort of goes beyond feelings of like or dislike, love or hate, interest or disinterest. It's hard to articulate it, but the simplest way is to say that her music has been the soundtrack of my life. Her words, the way she sings her words, the feelings that she fills her words with, have such resonance with me, that I feel like I would be cheapening my emotions if I say that listening to her music is just a matter of consumption or taste on my part. What can I say? Ayu is singing about me.

The brilliance of rollin' is obviously lost on a lot of people. No one sings "jidai ga meguru" on a dance song, in a chorus! And it's a dance song that's meditative and negative! Who does that? That's just brilliantly audacious.

I totally understand you, i began to listened j-pop at 2002 i was crazy about it, but times at times i just take a break for the same reasons of you =( , and today the new artists that i fell in love are uematsu hideki and breakerz ^^

DID SOMEONE SAID BREAKERZ ?!?! :P

you're going straight to my friends list now lmao :lmfao

BREAKERZ!!!

:roflmao

Michan, welcome to the group :lech

Oh my, no never. I listen to nothing but J-pop/Asian music and there's so much out there I have yet to discover, so I never get bored with it or lose interest with it. I love it too much!

:roflmao

must recruit more people in the BREAKERZ army :innocent

:roflmao

^ lol that was very random :laugh

sorry wrong thread...

:tired

It's not as if I don't like JPop, I just lost a bit of interest recently. I just don't think that the latest releases have been as entertaining as before, which is why I prefer KPop at the moment, they have a lot of catchy songs. I've also started to listen to western music again, I'm really loving Lady Gaga and Lily Allen's music lately. However, I have found some really amazing JPop singers, but I'm just not as interested as before.

I have lost 100% interest in J-Pop.

It's not as fresh and new as it used to be. Ayu's music is really boring now, Kuu's newest album was crappy, it takes forever for Namie to release something (but it turns out great), and Hikki's in America. I honestly can't remember the last time I listened to a Japanese musician.

I turned to K-Pop; it's almost like American pop in another, cooler dimension.

Woah, are you me? XD Because I too recently got into Kpop, Gaga, and Lily. I still keep up with some of my favorite Jpop artists but I've lost interest a little. Especially with Morning Musume. Still love the girls and listen to their old songs, but I don't obsessively follow them anymore and I've only listened to their recent releases once. Same goes for Ai, Mika, NEWS etc.

NEVER! Because I have Ayu and Tohoshinki.

No nearly 90% of my music is Jpop/Jrock

i never lose interest in J-Pop... they come up with the BEST style....

Ayu and Namie rocks~

elepop, I completely understand what you're going through obviously, and it honestly only lasts for a few months. You start to miss people like BoA and Namie (or whoever you like) and crave them after not hearing them for ages. Stick to K-pop for a while, and eventually you'll miss your good old J-pop and want to hear the music you've missed! (in my case Kuu's TABOO and BoA's Eien :heart)

:shughug

never .. since I was 11-12, I've been getting to know more artists, I think I have +100 albums on my PC .. my iTunes has a small collection of what I have .. 76 albums
I've been getting into K-pop lately .. it's not as bad and R&Bish as I thought !

No. And if I did, I'd just listen to American pop and that would push me right back to J-pop lol.

I couldn't stand Namie's old albums, and then, somehow, I really liked SWEET 19 BLUES and I still adore it! I prefer it even more than Break The Rules. :yes

But I agree about Koda :grumpy

I've lost interest in J-pop a couple of times. I first got into in 2004 I think when they were airing InuYasha, it was around the time they played Dearest and Every Heart -Minna no Kimochi-. I didn't know any other artist nor any other songs expect those and Come. Basically I was on the InuYasha songs only bandwagon.

Then I got bored of those songs and never listen to J-pop again, until I deiced to listen to Utada's Sanctuary and the link I clicked on was the Japanese version with the PV. I was like this is nice and then I search for more of her songs and I found Flavor Of Life and then I was done with J-pop once again.

Then I found Yuna Ito in 2008, while search for Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On. I clicked on it and when I heard it I was just wowed. Her voice was amazing. Then I looked her up and found Stuck on you, losin', ENDLESS STORY and Precious. Then that led to the rediscovery of BoA then that led to Utada then NEWS (because of Prisoner of Love), then (Prisoner of Love) led me back to Ayumi and I've just been listening to J-pop non stop since.

I'm starting to get a little tired now... I haven't found a song made in 2009 by any asian artist that makes me an addict lol! And then I'm gettting turned off by korean bands like big bang and snsd, because the igornant comments they make to the public. I was so mad at them, that I deleted all their songs. I think they have a nerve to make racist comments and then try to sell their music to the U.S!

Seriously no!!! I never lost interest for Jpop!

I just have to say...there are sooo many bands out there.

Here at AHS, it's like we've barely even seen the tip of the iceberg as to what's popular here.

There are so many great and under appreciated artists in Japan, just like in all industries I guess.

It's a little hard to become "tired" of something...I think most of us are tired of the Japanese mainstream.

This.

I just discovered a wonderful Japanese indie band named school food punishment. Gosh. They are amazing. Reminds me a lot of Korean indie bands. :heart

YES. I have lost a huge interest in Jpop recently.

Ayumi is probably the only Jpop singer that I actually care to check updates for...it's quite sad, but I just don't find Jpop as interesting as it once was. It seems to me that so many artists are putting out the same, generic sound. And, I don't know, there aren't that many interesting jpop artists out there anymore...lol...

Recently, I've been more interest in JROCK, Visual Kei rock or however you call it. I find it way more interesting and refreshing than Jpop. Of course most jrock band sounds similar to one another, but heck, I like their music... so it all works out. And beside, Jrockers are so HOT...and that is a bonus point =3

omg I want their stuff!

I've been looking for it, to no avail.

I haven't lost interest, but I'm scared I will.

Check this page: http://ayulyn.livejournal.com/10691.html?mode=reply
You can find their music!!

^oh wow yey! thank you so much :shughug

they have so much stuff! even belanova <3

No prob!

That journal have really good stuff! There's 2 pages. ;)

J pop is such a huge part of my life. the most music i have in my computer is mostly Japanese music. my American music and other music altogether doesn't even add up...

but some Jpop i seriously can't stand. they're either corny, childish, cheesy, and/or the singers cannot sing... and many Jpop singers CANNOT sing at all. especially the boy and girl bands.

I've lost interest in some artists like hitomi, LISA, Hitomi Shimatani, Rain and some other that I never liked pretty much. BUT my top5 all time favorite artists are always with me! :D Also Music and 90% of it is Japanese music is a part of my life. I can't live without it. I'd die without music.

ya

i'm pretty much losing interest in not only jpop but kpop and american music as well. i think i need to get back into the european scene...anyway the main people in jpop that i'm losing/lost interest in are

Ayu - I liked NEXT LEVEL better than GUILTY but I've listened to the entire album only like three times. she just doesn't strike me the way she used to idk. the magic is gone :weep

Kuu - everything after her scandal has been a disaster. i liked around four songs on TRICK but i deleted the album and i like to pretend the its all love single does not exist :yes

H!P - ugh i could write a 10 page essay on this but w/e all the girls i like are gone so i'll just leave it at that :eviltongu

Tommy heavenly6 - i used to love their stuff so much. but ever since i got a new computer i haven't even bothered to download one thing by them :shrug

Ai Otsuka - same thing as Tommy except i will probably download her best album again.

GReeeeN - i loved their 2nd album but after that just completely lost interest.

I've already lost interest in J-pop. Namie Amuro's WILD really put me off I was so disappointed. Ayumi's Sparkle was pretty good. The last song I heard by Koda Kumi was "That ain't cool" ft. Fergie.
The only artists I still have mild interest in are
Namie Amuro (cuz I'll always have love for her)
Ayumi Hamsaki
Koda Kumi
Utada
BoA (aiding her on her US debut though)
Artists that are totally off my radar are
Mika Nakashima (the last song I liked by her was Mienai Hoshi)
Ai Otsuka (What ever happned to her?)
Morning Musume
hitomi
ami suzuki

I was so focused on the big stars it was hard to discover new artists. I never paid attention to ayaka and leah dizon or whoever. Now, I'm listening to American music which I would say was sex hyped, repeatitive, with lack lust lyrics but that I'm somehow begining to enjoy them. Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Beyonce, P!nk, Rihanna etc. I miss the 04-05 JPOP era *Tear* I get that nostalgic feeling thinking about the music from that time. I'd love to get back with jpop but I just haven't heard that song that'll sparked my interest. :no :(

I lost interest not long after i became a fan, but then i got it back and thing's really haven't changed for me since. The Japanese music scene is so damn versatile (or was, as is the case). I suppose you could say that i've lost some interest, since apart from Ayaka, i haven't really liked anyone new in a long long time. I suppose you could say modern Jpop is becoming considerably less... J lol.

However, what with discovering old artists from the 70/80's and more recent artists i just somehow overlooked, i don't think i'll ever truly lose interest in Jpop... for a start it's pretty much all i know lol.

As for comparing Jpop and Kpop... i think Jpop blows it completely out of the water. Too much Korean stuff is boring to me, really really boring. I also, personally, don't think Kpop stars can measure up to those of Japan vocal-wise etc... That's not to say I don't like Korean music, Cherry Filter, Biuret, MC Mong... there's some really excellent stuff there if you dig a little.

And just to tag this on the end, I though NEXT LEVEL is one of ayumi's best albums in a LONG time and i really do love it.

Oh, and MORNING MUSUME FOR LIFE!

Yeah, I have. I think I'm still going through it right now. With the exception of artists I will always follow (Ayu, Ai Otsuka, and probably Miyavi), I don't really keep up with what's hot in J-pop like I used to. Man, I used to know what was coming out which week, even if I didn't like the artist. How times have changed...

Yeah. The last new thing I had gotten was Next Level and I don't even listen to it anymore. There's just a lot of new english stuff out right now that's getting all my attention

No. And if that day comes I would die.

I really love Jpop although I really can't understand the lyrics, just a few phrases. The melodies themselves are quite enough for me to be addicted to Japanese music. Ayumi Hamasaki's unique style of music particularly in her earlier works(A Song for XX until Memorial Address) are the tunes that I'm searching before I knew her. Unfortunately, I'm not really fond of ayu's works during the GUILTY era. I just listened to that album a few times.

Another artists that make me still interested are: TUBE, Kawamura Ryuichi, L'Arc~en~Ciel, X Japan, Fukuyama Masaharu, SMAP, Hirai Ken and Chemistry.

Songs from the 90's is the real Jpop melody era... I always want to go back to those moments.

Ayumi, and I hate to say it, is one of the only JPop artists who's been disappointing me lately.
I adored NEXT LEVEL at first, but after playing it for a while it got a bit boring, only a few songs really stuck out to me.

Koda hasn't failed to keep interested in her and her music. There's just something about her that seems like fun her music just keeps getting better and better, I can't wait for 3 Splash

The main artists I continuously follow are as follows:
Ayumi (though like I said, the urge to keep up to date with her music is decreasing)
Koda
Namie
Utada
BoA
Miliyah Kato

And that's about it.... I mean, they aren't the only artists I listen to, but they're the ones I completely follow. The other JPop artists I listen to I just look back on to check every now and again.


I think I haven't gotten bored of JPop itself because I keep my music varied. I will listen to Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese and Western music equally. I can also enjoy Spanish, Russian and French music. JPop will always be my favourite style of music though.

To be honest, I never really gave up on J-pop in a whole, just some artists I listened when I discovered J-Music, like Kotani Kinya, Dream, Do As Infinity (though not entirely, I listen to them once in a while) and listen to new artists, like Utada, Kuu, more of Ayu stuff etc

1. Utada Hikaru. I used to like her song. but later I got her voice is really annoying and so flat thoug I like her song. i just dont like her voice. so thats why i never follow her info anymore. just when she has new song, i will download and listen to it. i like her music not her voice

2. Nami Tamaki ; her music lately are so boring. I gave up.

3. Ai Otsuka : no any song can make me interested to her music since the latest one chu-lip. I still keep updating her info though

I was listening to J-pop since 1996 (DEPARTURES, CAN YOU CELEBRATE?) and I briefly stopped in 2002 because I felt that H and Voyage were boring. Then I wasn't too impressed with RAINBOW either.

And Ayumi was basically my favourite singer even back then. Fortunately No way to say came along and rekindled my interest.

yeah. when 2NE1 got my attention on this year's summer :P
im still updating for JPop though n im back to lovin ayu again when a-nation starts :laugh

BoA --> I don't like her new songs very much
the older songs from LISTEN TO MY HEART to LOVE & HONESTY are way better for me

Koda Kumi --> I lost interest in Koda Kumis music since BEST ~BOUNCE & LOVERS~

Gackt --> I have totally lost interest
I don't even know why I ever listened to his music.....

Nope, I don't listen to some artists as often as I used to before though.

I'm kinda losing interest atm...

I've listened to so many indie japanese artists and smaller name pop artists...the mainstream people need to come back now...

we just need moar stuff! It feels like everyone is so dead...although namie is coming out with an album and singles are coming...there are still no leaks...i want new music. NOW. I'm bored.

The Koreans are even more interesting.


meanwhile...lady gaga has taken over my itunes.

haha for me with every passing day its becoming better and better for me. I'm not interested in english music AT ALL in fact I hate most of it. There are a couple of english songs that I'm like.. eh.. this sounds nice but most of the time I really don't even bother to listen to it when my friends are dancing to it. One time when I was going from American to J-pop I tried to make myself lose interest by not listening to it but I couldn't help it... if I didn't listen to J-pop I wouldnt' listen to music at all and its been that way since. I haven't changed at all for the past like... 7 years I want to say. haha.

i've never really lost interest in j-pop before, it's like a long extended obsession :thud
although, k-pop and american music eclipses this from time to time :innocent

To be honest...I think the people who tend to lose interest are the ones who go "OMGZZZ Ayumi/Kumi/BoA/Namie LUV EM EVRY1 ELZ SUX" without actually listening to anyone else...so of course they're going to lose interest when they only like four artists :P

I've never lost interest. Whenever I feel like it's time for new music I just check out a new artist :D

Jpop is still my favorite asian music. But I also found my love for Kpop and Cpop. The problem is, I've become such a picky person. The songs need to be really good to impress me. I believe that's because I heard so many great music in past, and can't get it again. For an example, I'm aware that Ayu will never do a song like evolution or Will ever again. Or that Jrock bands lost their touch with great music. I also love many western singles by artists like Linkin Park, Madonna and Beyonce, but still get disappointed when I hear other songs from albums.

So, when I think I lost interest in Jpop, I listen to older songs and remind myself why I started listening to them in first place :yes

No, I never have and never will, but I'm not listening to some artists anymore I listened to in the past.
I really was a great fan of Amuro Namie a few years ago, but these days I really don't like her music anymore. How can I say that: The lyrics are so "meaningless" and the music in a lot of her songs is boring me now.

I also LOVED Ringo Shiina and I still like her a lot, but not with Tokyo Jihen. I don't like their songs at all.

I will NEVER EVER lose interest in Ayu-chan, though! For me, she is really the Queen of J-Pop!
She writes all her own lyrics and sometimes her own music. She works so hard to give her fans the best of her and I love and respect her for that!! <3

yes.i do.i stop listen to japanese songs 5 years ago and started to listen back months ago.

Nope not yet at least!
The western music scene is pretty dismal... I have a few English singing artists on my ipod that I really like, but I can't stand anything else...
I follow Japanese music because I like it, and will keep following it... it's not like I'll stop, it's the music I listen to so why would I stop?
It's not like there is a rule saying if you start liking another kind of music you must stop listening to the music you loved before.
I'm getting to the point where it's not just some 'stage' in my life, I will probably like it for a long time!!
ya hard to explain... just I really doubt I will stop liking it anytime soon... perhaps when I'm an old woman!