J-pop going flat???

[sinfonietta]

Maybe you just need to take a break from the genre and explore a different scene? Or explore different artists within the genre if you only stick to a select few?

What I've found with Japanese pop music is that although it doesn't sound as up-to-date on the global scale as, say, the styles in Korean music it does seem more durable: even though I love it, I find I tire of Korean/American/Brit pop within a few days/weeks while Japanese artists I can stick with for a long time before growing tired of their music. For example: two artists I was obsessed with around this time last year were Ke$ha and Tomohisa Yamashita - I'm still hooked on the same Yamapi CD I was then (SUPERGOOD, SUPERBAD) but I grew tired of Ke$ha's Animal+Cannibal within two months.