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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi
Jpop fans... believing their multi-million selling idols are underground indie artists since 1998  |
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Originally Posted by relmy
This is the eternal truth.
No other comment ever needs to be made on Jpop fandoms EVER.
This is so true, I wish I had said it.
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Well, it is kind of true if you don't live in Japan (not necessarily the indie part but I have heard that avex is considered an 'independent' label by someone here) but in Japan, a lot of these acts are anything but underground, haha.
As for Utada, I think a lot of people treat her as a goddess because she basically handles everything when it comes to her music (lyrics, composition, arrangement) though I wonder if she would even be nearly as popular if she wasn't so involved with her music.
I feel like no one else is as versatile or takes as many risks as Ayu does when it comes to her music in the world of female soloists. However sometimes those risks don't necessarily pay off (people were turned off by a handful of tracks on Party Queen because of it, I think) but I respect how she does whatever she feels like doing without resorting to basically copy pasting tracks although you could say that her summer-y songs are all the same BUT I think that was more because of an arranger doing the same thing for every track than the songs actually being 'the same'.