[article] Knife Is Beautiful

[JesA]

how can they say it lacks individuality? Utada's music is actually worth listening...instead of the garbled profanity of american singers. at least Asian music lyrics have a meaning.....Utada's music IS creative. 50 Cent, Hilary Duff etc. hardly have any. its the same old stuff every time.

[PrismaticTears]

Originally Posted by Sayonara_Ne

how can they say it lacks individuality? Utada's music is actually worth listening...instead of the garbled profanity of american singers. at least Asian music lyrics have a meaning.....Utada's music IS creative. 50 Cent, Hilary Duff etc. hardly have any. its the same old stuff every time.

Exodus blew my mind since she didn't do the "Utada Hikaru sound" that we know, she tried something new and more "American" it was really crappy in my opinion. The only two tracks on that album I could stand listening to the entire way through was Exodus '04 and Devil Inside.

I've actually met some people who do -not- listen to foreign music by any chance but they went to some of the Polysics and Pillows performances here in the US and they loved them. Just neither got very much press outside of those who already listen to J-Pop quite a bit.

I'm also reminded why I never listen to the radio anymore when I see, "#1 Selling Album!" plastered across some hack rap group/solo act or people who can't wait for "Britney's comeback." Most people don't want something different, they want the same old shtick.