The status owned by Japanese music doesn't necessarily have to be considered high. A Norwegian who publicly said he liked Japanese popular music was recently moved to an institution where he can play his Puffy records all by himself. If you take some retarded people like Backstreet boys and make them sing even worse music, then you'll probably have a hit in Japan.
But even though their music might be bad, they make some excellent names for themselves. My favorite is the infamous Sound Masturbation. I wouldn't go to that page if I were you. Who knows what the members of a group with such a great name are up to?
If you are Japanese and you don't know who Namie Amuro is, then you're kind of an American who believes OJ did not kill Nicole. Men like to think of Amuro like this:
Then you get an understanding of who Amuro really is. I must agree, Amuro is not the
kind of girl you would allow to run naked around your bed in the morning (at least not for
more than five seconds). But she can sing too!! Her probably most famous song is
"Sweet, sweet nineteen blues". The refrain is the only part of the song in
English, and Amuro doesn't understand English. That's perhaps why it's not actually a
blues song! The song belongs to the "Bad music"-category and has nothing to do
with blues what so ever. So, once more, why is it called "Sweet sweet nineteen
blues" and not "Sweet sweett nineteen terrible music?
1. The Japanese don't know English
2. When Amuro is singing Japanese men look at her
and women look at how she's dressed! No one really cares about her music, in reality
only blind Japanese have heard her songs.
Amuro also sings a song about a walk in the park and some other intellectual subjects. If Namie would decide to run for prime minister in Japan (um)... Well, it would be cool. Huh huh.
A really talented group is the Seifku Kojyo Iinkai.
What the group name is supposed to tell us, that's pretty clear. These are girls dressed up in school uniforms who've formed a committee of some kind. If they can play music, I don't know. I'll just have to guess... They can be extremely talented, kick ass in all ways and play 123 instruments each... Or maybe they're just popular because they look good and wear school uniforms. It's really hard to tell... Hm, who knows?
I started crying when I found out that 44Magnum were breaking up. I was only ten years or something back then, but it was so sad... Well, not really. Maybe I would have cared if I'd known about the group. Take a look at their picture and try to understand what a big loss our world of music suffered:
44Magnum
Now, you too can join my 44Magnum-sect. We get together 44 times a month (more around Christmas) to worship our musical 44Magnum-leaders. We ask for their spiritual help by donating money to me.
At last you HAVE TO visit Chisato and Moritaka's website. It used to be yet another homepage on Japanese music, but due to EXTREMELY low demand you'll find something else there instead. Enjoy!