Yeah, sometimes this problem is like a cycle, I mean, when one person who never listen to jpop or maybe he listened but didn't like it, he tend to dislike it and even sometimes made labels to people who listen to it as a nerd/something similar. And when one other person who likes to listen to jpop/something similar and he didn't like american music, he tend to label american music trashy because of the lyrics, etc etc. I think they are the kind of people who is close minded, for labeling something they don't acknowledge very much, I mean not 'ALL' japanese or american music is trashy. Labeling something because of just one, two, even thirty, or a hundred things you didn't like is not right..
Everybody have the rights to choose which kind of things they like and dislike, so we can't force anybody else to listen to what we think is very great, and assuming people as a nerd or freak because of things they like and dislike is very rude, imo.
But, yes, there is something like stigma (like
hpg23 said) about liking japanese music. I often (but not always) get this vibe from people around who dislike jpop, and it seems that they thought of me as an 'otaku'. I don't like it. I want to say, 'Hey, I like american, jamaican, and latin music too, as long as the music fits my ear!' but just because I like jpop, anything else doesn't matter for them.. ugh,, it's ridiculous,,
but of course, not all people are like that
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Originally Posted by emiko
There are probably a million reasons why people around the world listen to American music, and it doesn't all have to do with the market, although, I'm not going to say that America having the biggest industry has nothing to do with it. It most certainly does, but that's not everything.
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Yes, it's true. One of the reason why other language won't sell well is because the music industry. I mean, if MTV (in the whole world) shows Ayu's pvs along with other artists 'regularly' (not just as a midnight or early morning show, bleh), Ayumi might become
very famous, not as just the JPop Empress..
