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Originally Posted by zyoeru
I don't think Ayu's overall sound is generic. Yes she's a pop singer, but what is pop? Popular music. About two decades ago the "pop" was stuff like enka. But really people use this term "pop" to excuse Ayu being generic (which I think is a load of...).
What does it mean to be pop nowadays? What does it mean to be rock? It doesn't matter what genre Ayu has tried or tried because everyone just says it's pop.
Because of You, kiss o' kill, talkin' 2 myself. Are they really pop?
To me pop is bubblegum sounding music, stuff like Beautiful Fighters, ANGEL'S SONG, HONEY.
We don't have too many of those songs in Ayu's discography, surprisingly.
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Although this is highly debatable and subjective... to me Ayu is always a J-Pop singer, and her songs have always been pop-based. I mean there's a reason why she's under J-Pop and not J-Rock right? lol
Rock isn't a song that sounds harsh with loud guitars and drums. Rock is something like Liz Phair (at least in her first 3 albums)... In other words, pop is the most mainstream music; the genre that can take on the shape of many other genres, and still sound catchy and mainstream. That's pop.
Maybe you would disagree with me, but at least that's how I feel lol. And I never said she was generic, I just said I don't think it's appropriate to expect her to "experiment" or whatever because at the end of the day, she is still a pop singer lol.
But you know what, maybe you weren't directing that to me at all.
