Why have you chosen jpop?

[hana_sanctuary]

Well--- it started with Sailor Moon and anime themes and such--- Ayu sorta just came along. But I can't really say that I chose JPOP--- since Ayu is the only one I listen to ((except for anything occasionally a friend sends me)). I chose JROCK since it's not as heavy and the different flavors of music is amazing. Especially when rock in the US just talks about angsty stuff all the time x.<

[Eternally]

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

I'm sorry, this post is REALLY long...

I KINDA did end up "choosing" jpop as my genre of choice really, after looking through lots of styles and countries for something i liked and didn't get sick of. I'm just a white girl who, in high school, was surrounded by peers who liked really really crappy music. I had been an avid music lover my whole life but after awhile, everything popular started to sound the same and, on top of it, really no good at all. I started out broadening my horizons listening to britpop like Sleeper, underground rock and techno by people like Massive Attack, PJ Harvey, Tricky, and Bjork, and later I discovered Faye Wong through my love of Tori Amos (because Faye did a cover of Tori's "Silent All these Years")... I listened to a bunch more Cpop for awhile, but Faye was the only artist that really stuck to me, so that genre didn't end up being a huge thing for me. I also heard of Lee Jung Hyun through the faye wong mailing list, so i experimented with some Kpop, but none of that really struck my fancy.

Which brings me to a fateful day in May 2000 when my sister was looking for mp3s by actress/singer Milla Jovovich, and accidentally downloaded an Ayumi Hamasaki mp3. It was just called "track_07.mp3" so my sister asked if i could identify it, since she knew i was into asian music. Turned out to be the album version of "TO BE". ^_^

After that i went crazy looking for more japanese artists, and learned to my surprise that it was the second largest music market on earth. Considering i'd heard of artists from EVERYWHERE besides japan so far, i felt kinda out of the proverbial loop. I ended up finding Amuro Namie, Gackt, Luna Sea, L'arc, Diru, hitomi, and a bunch of anime themes. Someone on napster recommended Aikawa Nanase to me much later that year. This was the coolest music i had ever heard ever in my life, and as a genre jpop has really stuck with me for the past five years.

Basically, after a long and grueling search, I found my music. hehe

Faye Wong did a cover of Tori Amos? o.o I thought only Stefanie Sun did that.

[Delirium-Zer0]

Nope, Faye did. And Valen Hsu did, also, two songs of Tori's ("China", as "Butterfly", and "Winter", but i don't remember her title.).

[bringer_of_the_sun]

Um... I'm asian? I grew up listening to Cpop before I moved to the US. A couple of years ago, I started getting into anime. I met someone who was really into BoA, which got me started on Jpop and Kpop. Then I started watching Inuyasha, and I fell in love with My Will, Fukai Mori, Dearest, and No More Words.

[*Petit*]

I listen only to good music. The music I like. Lots of the japanese music appeals to me more than other countries' music. that's it.