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Originally Posted by Uemarasan
If Ayu wanted to follow current trends in Japanese music and sell well, she would put out pop R&B (Thelma Aoyama and Exile) or urban pop (Namie Amuro) or gimmicky pop (Hexagon) or even boyband pop (maybe she could get her backup dancers to be an Ayu boyband? Ayurashi?). You seem to be forgetting that electro-pop is past its expiry date in Japan, having peaked during the euro-pop of the late 90s/early 00s  |
No its not.(past its expiration date) Eurodance and this type of pop are very different. And btw, the peak period for the Euro dance/pop sound in Japan was the early to mid 90s. Aoyama Thelma is turning out to be a one hit wonder (unfortunately). Koda and Namie are both doing the electro pop thing these days and Perfume obviously is huge. A lot of artists are starting to incorporate the Perfumy kind of sound. And an even larger amount of western artists have recently or are currently doing the same type of style. It's certainly not something new or anywhere near revolutionary at all.
And am I the only one that doesn't quite see any similarity between this album and loveappears other than that they both encorporate techno elements? For me, Loveappears is a totally different sound than this.