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Originally Posted by Mad_Cactuar
Still stuck in 1999 eh?
Sorry, but American pop music has moved on a LOT since you last switched on your radio. Nowadays, American pop has evolved greatly. Innovation has been ruling, listen to all the amazing tracks lately. Hollaback Girl, Say It Right, We Belong Together, What You Waiting For, Hung Up, Unwritten, Maneater, Wind It Up, Irreplaceable, Fergalicious, and these are just the females. Male artists like Rob Thomas, James Morisson, Justin Timberlake, Nick Lachey are not "primary-school" material. Music from here have sales figures to prove that they are "respectable".
I hate it when people instantly associate today's American pop scene with Britney music from the late 90's. How would you feel if I were to think of J-POP in general as Ayu squeaking out Powder Snow and concluding that every J-POP song is the same?
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AMEN!
To quote my friend: "There's a reason why Britney Spear's album sells millions". One person=/=entire country. And also I'm willing to bet that a lot of people still likes Britney, or N'sync, but too scared to admit it. (Com'on people, you got to admit it's fun singing 'tearing out my heart' on the top of your lungs walking down the sidewalk during summer).
I think a lot of Jpop listeners (just a general observation, nothing personal) have become very Asian-pop or jpop-centered that they tend to associate anything bad with American or Western Music, Period. Maybe I'm just ranting here, but if you can go about and say how bad the rap and hip-hop and western music is, I think Westerners have every right to say how bad Jpop is. Each to his or her own. Yes, there's crappy Western music. But there's a large share of crappy asian singers too.
One thing I learned (from this forum actually
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Originally Posted by Uemarasan
Well, there isn't anything wrong with classifying someone as "pop". For me, pop music just means popular music. Even The Beatles were "pop". Maybe you mean "bubblegum pop", which is what most people think of "pop" today. But I disagree with that. Pop includes an artist of any genre of music who becomes very popular, be that music rock, jazz, blues, etc. So I'll have to say Teresa Teng's music was the pop music of her time.
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So the Beatles, back in their prime, was considered pop as well.
