Introduces you to Jpop in 1994

>introduces you to Jpop in 1994
Why the fuck is kpop so big when Japs make far superior music

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its association with anime makes it perceived as a neckbeard nerd thing

korea has no soul therefore they are good at making soulless music for retard NPCs

I don't care much for pop music, but I never understood why japan has never been so successful in the west, anime is huge.

K-pop isn't really big in the west.

>K-pop isn't really big in the west.
the constant stream of shitty kpop threads on Any Forums say otherwise

only some jpop is good like Lisa, Leo Ieiri

rest is badly mixed crap typically and most of its superhypedup garbage for anime

You retard, this is the same album that also introduced Americans to K-Pop, specifically the new jack swing variety.

first 3 ninjas was kino

>when Japs make far superior music
They do, but their pop-music is in a pretty bad state these days and gets absolutely mogged to shit by Kpop in just about every way

I thought about this

Kpop is big because it's themes are based around US pop music in the 90s. Japan actually does some interesting stuff with their music, so does korea, but korea bases their music a bit more in american/western convention, which is why it appeals to us more.

I'm a bigger fan of Japanese stuff, but I can see why other westerners prefer korean music.

k-pop is literally just the last two decades of US pop but sung/rapped in korean
there is nothing k about it
you're not gonna find avant-garde/noisecore band-collab k-pop records ever like you find j-pop ones because k-pop is just ultra capitalist goverment-sponsored drivel

Lisa is the face of anime retard

Anime is huge and yet J-pop so hasn't become bigger in the west and K-pop despite massive marketing hasn't become big in the west yet, the top 100 is dominated by western musicians, most of the US

There is absolutely Kpop that has a destinct K-sound, did you only listen to Blackpink or something? And there is plenty of good music in other genres as well. Everyone jerked off about how great Parannoul was just a few months ago. You just have to dig a bit and not just disregard it as "muh soulless capitalist drivel" from the get go.

>and K-pop despite massive marketing hasn't become big in the west yet
Do you not have younger sisters or cousins or nieces?
Everybody in the Western world knows BTS.
Nobody knows Yonezu Kenshi, he's not gonna sell out arenas in LA and New York.

>Everyone jerked off about how great Parannoul was just a few months ago.
We're really stretching the definition of k-pop here if we're gonna count this.
Right now you're telling me British pop music is great because Slowdive exists.

Ryuichi Sakamoto was bigger than every K-pop act and Japan even managed an international hit in the 60s.

I wasn't saying it was Kpop, you were also mentioning other genres as if Korea only had Kpop

>Ryuichi Sakamoto
>60s
user, he was like barely 7 years old at the beginning of the 60s.
My point was that you're not gonna find a combination k-pop/noise record released on a major label and with MVs and cute idols dancing and everything like Bis Kaidan because Korea is obsessed with their pop being as marketable and sellable as possible.

I was talking about this song.

And ryuichi had some success in the 80s and 90s, K-pop is not really popular

>"Ue o Muite Arukō" (Japanese: 上を向いて歩こう, "I Look Up as I Walk"), alternatively titled "Sukiyaki", is a song by Japanese crooner Kyu Sakamoto, first released in Japan in 1961. The song topped the charts in a number of countries, including the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1963.

The song grew to become one of the world's best-selling singles of all time, selling over 13 million copies worldwide.