what in the world is it with kpop

[magnuminium]

that makes people completely stop listening to japanese music

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[magnuminium]

exactly! i mean, i can understand all the excitements over the new music and bands, but come on! now the situation is like- what? jrock? that was in the past life.- *sighs*

[magnuminium]

it makes me sad too, very sad. :(((

[mizuki_music]

*shrugs* I'm not sure either but for me I see it as the fact that Kpop groups actually get out there in the media like a lot of famous Kpop groups have come to my university even. A lot of Japanese bands are like locked in, in terms of touring and random appearances outside of Japan. I hear more of Kpop groups locally here than of Japanese groups. I can't say much for the European fans and the East Coast of USA (they get all the good Jrock acts so they can't complain, Canada gets totally skipped out which is so unfair!).

BUT, personally I'm more of a Jrock fan despite the lack of new interesting material that the Jrock community is releasing nowadays. I listen to some Kpop but I think it's just a lack of new innovative music in Jrock that it has died down (some bands are just turning too mainstream or they're copying each other). Plus 2010 was like the doom year for Jrock a lot of groups disbanded DX

AH! Sorry for the long comment >_<;

[magnuminium]

i don't mind long comments at all, no worries. ;)

i think you are right, partly it is because japanese bands remains locked in and rarely or never goes overseas. and the only jrock band that had visited eastern europe was guild, beside them miyavi and if i'm not mistaken that would be all.

i don't mind kpop as a music genre, and there is nothing wrong with listening to that music, varieties exists to satisfy everyone's tastes. but i'm quite bothered with the fact that people who used to listen to jrock and now are kpop only oriented, act like jrock never existed as a part of their life and have a need to comment quite bad about the bands they used to listen. i've been noticing that for quite some time now and it really makes me sad.

and you are right, 2010 was the doom year for jrock with all those band disbanded and death around, never to happen again!

[mizuki_music]

Yeah, I don't get it either. I suppose they're acting like posers maybe? Trying to show other fans that they're 'true' Kpop fans or something by bad mouthing their favourite jrock bands, I'll never understand it.

[magnuminium]

i was trying to express exactly this what you said here in my home language in the posts below! why people whyyy??? :(

[raven_meadowes]

Naravno da sam jos u "opciji" za diskusiju! :O Ne samo za DEG, za hilo koji Jrock bend... Nema me mnogo da skroblujem na Last.fm-u, a i kad skroblujem to je jedno te isto u poslednje vreme (komp mi je katastrofa sa virusima i skoro sve je obrisano.. pa muziku slusam mahom preko plejera). Ali, moja ljubav prema japanskoj muzici se ni malo nije smanjila. Zaista. I kad god zelis da pricamo o necemu, tu sam. :D

[raven_meadowes]

PS: Ja sam odusevljena sa LOTUS-om, btw. ワルシャワの幻想 mi je isto bila sjajna, cak mi je draza od nove OBSCURE verzije. Iako sam primetila da je ljudi nesto ne vole. :|

[magnuminium]

meni i mojoj sestri je lotus odlican, kad sam prvi put cula reakcija je bila da, to je diru i kyoovo pevanje. nova verzija obscure mi se podjednako svidja iako mi je originalna draza al to je vec vezano za uspomene. :)

mislim da ljudi imaju potrebe da kenjaju da bi osecali kako je mihovo misljenje bitno svima. *blah*

[magnuminium]

heeeey (^___^) uh u poslednje vreme bas slabo posecujem lfm, a i bacila sam se na igrice pa i manje slusam muziku

[milkymao]

I have nothing against kpop but I'm getting tired of most of the people here who says kpop is better than Jpop...
I can't really go against them becoz they're too many!
They might murder me if say anything against them. (>_<)

[magnuminium]

i think that jpop and kpop can't be compared at all. except being named "pop", the genres are quite different. and still people are prone to keep comparing. *sighs*

and you're right, as i'd heard from my friends kpop fandoms can be quite scary.