Again, that’s a story for another post (well, one of the ones I alluded to before) but you’re just starting to scratch the surface there.

I just re-read your point and I think I misunderstood it the first time. That generalization is all over the place, though, so I think I just saw that and thought “Oh, here goes another ‘Wota hate American pop!’ statement.”

Don’t even get me started on Hannah fucking Montana (or as I call her, the Anti-MoMusu) - that is yet another post entirely.

I’m actually planning on doing a post comparing Disney Channel and H!P and why they’re similar, so I don’t completely argee with you here. But I’ll wait to duke it out until I write that post.

P.S.: You’re right, no act could ever do what the Beatles did. Rad’s point, or at least my version of his point, is that MoMusu could latch on in at least a similar way in spite of things. Again, that’s another post entirely.

I’m not quite sure what you mean here with “could latch on in at least a similar way in spite of things.” You mean start a wave of Japanese imports? And “in spite of things” mean in spite of a language barrier?

I’d be really interested in reading Rad’s point of view on both yours and Vulpi’s post. I wonder why he hasn’t responded yet…

@Hanachan: P.S.: You’re right, no act could ever do what the Beatles did. Rad’s point, or at least my version of his point, is that MoMusu could latch on in at least a similar way in spite of things. Again, that’s another post entirely.

@Hanachan: That’s very possible regarding what Vulpi was referring to. As for any “generalizations”, I didn’t say “all J-Pop fans hate American pop music”, so you’re safe there. Don’t even get me started on Hannah fucking Montana (or as I call her, the Anti-MoMusu) - that is yet another post entirely.

@Vulpi: No offense, but do you even comprehend the points I’m trying to make? From the looks of your response, it looks like you don’t. Also, don’t mistake my using more common musical examples to describe any song on a MoMusu or other J-Pop release when I write a review (and I don’t just write the reviews for a J-Pop audience, I write them for a more general audience - Stuck In A Pagoda is a music blog, not just a J-Pop blog) with seemingly idle comparisons between new and older artists.

And I hate the generalization that all J-pop fans hate American pop. Anyone who knows me knows that I love Disney Channel, pretty much for the same reason I love H!P-I love cheesy pop music. Sure, a lot of really interesting, catchy music comes out of H!P, but at the end of the day, it’s a large group of Asian girls singing bubblegum pop. (Well, they stuff that sells really well is. I can’t really say that about Yuki Maeda or Yuko Nakazawa)

And I think comparing any new act becoming popular to the Beatles’ breakthrough is inaccurate. Nothing will ever be like that again. Not even BSB or *Nsync were like that, as they didn’t revolutionize popular music and change and insipre it for decades to come.

I thought this was a well-written post, very deserving of the “recommended reading” at Int’l Wota. Nicely done.

Moving on… Oh, please. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but America and Japan are different countries! That means that the music they tend to put out is also completely different. What a concept, right?! Throughout this entire post, you have never once compared Momusu to other Japanese artists, preferring to stay in your little comfort zone of rock. It is not convincing at all.

About the title: Rad is notoriously over-enthusiastic about friggin’ everything. He has, like, three J-pop groups that he knows more than just a little about, and each one is ZOMG THE BEST THING TO EVER COME OUT OF JAPAN IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY. You just can’t be like that, period.

Sorry it offended you, but at the same time? Nah, I don’t actually mean that.