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Artists that continuously releases music that keeps me interested or in some other way keeps me entertained musically (f.ex a good voice could make up for a bland song) will be highest on my list.
Tops
Ayumi Hamasaki - I love her voice, and her music is always worth given a first listen.
Shimatani Hitomi - I also love her voice, which sometimes makes up for poor songs. SOmetimes her songs hits me like hurricanes and she also gave me my first jpop song addiction with VIOLA.
Aya Ueto - her music is mostly pleasantly there.
Sub-groups of H!P- THis may sound a bit uprecise, but mostly I think that the sub groups deliver stand out stuff, and a lot of it is very interesting musically also. The groups I'm referring to are groups like the summer shuffles, GAM, DEF DIVA and the like.
Semi follow ups:
I'm not going to write a lot on these, but they sometimes deliver songs I like and often enough to that I keep up with their releases:
Mai Kuraki - Her voice is annoying in too big doses, but she has some wonderful songs
Morning Musume - you can't deny the catchiness of their songs. They have one of the best and most creative pop mucisians alive making their music IMO. I like their older stuff more than the new stuff though.
Rina Aiuchi - much like Mai Kuraki
Aya Matsuura - hasen't released anything in a while, but I really LOVE her voice, she probably is the prototype on the type of female voice I like. But please bring back her upbeat cute stuff!
KOTOKO - re-sublimity got me hooked
Biyuuden - this might change if theire music doesen't improve.. "Issai gassai..."
Once in a while I check these out, but mostly I find their releases dull:
Maki goto along with the rest of the H!P groups, like, W and abe natsumi.
Namie Amuro - some of her osngs are just really great, but mostly I think it's dull. Her last album was amazing though
Ai otsuka - she used to be on my "A-List" but she got less interesting to me for each release after kingyo hanabi.
Uehara azumi - recent discovery
globe
anna tsuchiya
ami suzuki
dir en grey
koda kumi (how can you avoid her... O.o)
l'arc en ciel
(wow this listis getting too long, sorry..)
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