2 posts tagged “jpop”
Hi!
Kirarin and I were talking on Wotachat# about why MM's single cases have gone back to being skinny cases for their singles, and it got to the whole sales and money issue. So, it was brought up that Morning Musume has declined a lot.
I beg to differ.
Yes, their sales have declined, and so has their fame, but I wouldn't say that no one else's has either. The worldwide music industry as whole's sales have vastly declined since illegal downloading and internet music download stores have taken off.
That's it.
Kirarin's posts are in Teal, mine are in Black, mp's in purple, and another person's in red. (I'm sorry, I forget already who this was)
-Midori
Hi!
Sorry I haven't been doing anything at all IW-wise or my blog wise, I've been really busy with the end of school and finals. T_T
On the bright side, now that school's out and I don't have many summer assignments at all, I'll be doing my best with both IW and this blog.
To start the summer off, I have the results from my survey. Here they are:
Gender and Age-
Almost everyone who answered is female, and 13-21, with only one guy answering it, in the 21-30 age bracket. This isn't too surprising, since I assume that most people who read my blog are female H!P fans like me, who are also about my age.
1., 2., & 3. These results aren't too surprising either. It seems that most of the bloggers listened to '90's American pop music like I did. Maybe there's some correlation between liking pop music as a kid and liking Jpop? This could be very likely, considering that many of these groups were considered mainstream pop sounding, like Jpop is now, and that they are generally groups all of one gender who sing with recorded or instruments they're not playing to back them up. Another similarity is the music videos, that weren't made so much to tell a story or to compliment the music as they were to show off the singers in some way. From how similar these groups are, I can safely say that there's at very least a small connection between liking the mainstream pop of the '90's to the similarly looking and sounding Jpop groups of the 2000's.
4. It seems that many of us have only first heard jpop very recently, after 2000. Maybe this could also tie into the previous question in saying that maybe we liked it because we'd had a long enough break from the music we knew as young children, and when we became tweens and teens we wanted to hear it again. It's also worth noting that a few of the respondants said they'd found it through anime, and were unsure of the most popular groups, another sign that they might've been drawn to the pop side of things, where everything is "pop" (meaning popular) and therefore there isn't really a sense of who's more popular, such as when there was the ever-going debate between N*Sync and the Backstreet Boys, no one really knew who was more popular, so they just kinda ignored it. Of course, in that case, they ignored it by not bothering to find out to settle the debate, and we just don't bother to find out.
5. & 6. It seems that many of the people surveyed have always liked the anime music, and a few liked both pop and Jrock, but now are leaning towards pop. This is probably because while both pop and rock songs are used for anime openings, pop's simply more catchy to the point where you want to hear it again and again. Also, some rock was popular in the '90's, so maybe that influenced them, but since there was more pop on the airwaves, they might've liked it slightly more. Also, many of the bloggers are still more into pop than rock, which would support that theory.
7. & 8. It seems that as the bloggers have grown attached to the poppy sound of Jpop, they listen to more Jpop than English music, but they still do listen to music in languages other than Japanese. This is probably because they're into the groups AND the genre, so if there's good music of similar style in their language, they might like it. Many of the bloggers seem to like Lady Gaga and other pop artists from many different countries that would suggest that if they're a fan of the genre, even if they do have their favorite groups, they will stick to finding new artists mainly in that genre, in this case pop.
9. This question was thrown in not to be analyzed, but out of pure curiosity. It seems that most of the bloggers hadn't been to concerts.
10. Most of the respondents don't seem to know about the future of the industry in their minds, but a few say that they'll keep buying if they keep making it. The general concensus is that they believe that they'll still like it in five years just as much as they do now. This brings up the point that, even though critics (and even some fans) say that pop is too generic, they still seem to like it as a whole, and believe that it can't get old.
11. & 12. It seems like the bloggers do, in fact, like Jpop the best out of everything they've listened to. Only one responder had one answer that didn't fall under the Jpop category. This could be interpereted that people will always like the kind of music that they've always liked best, in this case pop. It wouldn't mean that their tastes don't evolve, it just means that they evolve with their intrests, such as anime fans adapting to Japanese pop, like Japanese animation, compared to American pop perferrers perferring American animation.
13. The blogger's opinions are more mixed on American pop, where one says she likes it, another says he only likes Taylor Swift, and still others saying they don't like any of it. Maybe this means that American pop has grown in a different direction than American pop, one very different from the one that they like, the Japanese one that's similar to American '90's pop music, but it still hasn't gotten far enough to be completely obselete for some.
14. This question was for my own amusement, so...
And yes, Tenimyu does count as a musical by my defininition.
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Well, that's enough of my overanalyzing for today.
-Midori
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