[Luck16]

I lost almost completely the interest in Jpop and so have my friends who used to love it.

I think it's a mixture of getting old and how boring Jpop is now. Like others have stated, pretty much all of my favorites are now gone (MiChi, alan, JASMINE, Yuna Ito, Meisa Kuroki, OLIVIA) and I just don't have the time or interest to look for new singers.

My top 4 faves are BoA, Ayu, Kuu and Namie.
They all aren't as active as they used to be as well (except Namie I guess)
I haven't really liked any of Ayu's music for the past 4 or 5 years (just a song here and there).
As for Kuu, Bon Voyage and WOML didn't have as much replay value as some of her older albums but she still is my all time favorite
BoA is probably eating cheetos now
Namie has been topping herself on releasing generic music
I also don't check ORICON daily like I used to back in the day (when Jpop was at its prime era). It was really exciting to see how my faves would rank lol

When AKB and those other groups started to dominate was the time I really started to get bored with the Jpop scene.

As I stated before, I believe in my case it's also an age thing. We and our faves all have other priorities now. I can't stay in my room all night watching concerts and PVs.

Jpop to me, now, is synonym to nostalgia.