[Jenna]

I browse this music section. I see grunge rockers. I see metal. I see loud and scream and unhappy.

What this forum needs...

It needs...
Jesus.

MUSUME.

http://wiki.theppn.org/images/3/37/2002-mm.jpg
(2002 Lineup.)

Check it ooout. There are very many of them, in a constantly changing lineup. They appear on TV! They scrub the decks! They dance in bathrooms! They have rock-paper-scissors tournaments! They prance around in schoolgirl costumes!

Ah, Japan. These girls are idols of Japan, and though their popularity has dwindled- (their stuff just ain't as cracky and cute as it once was-) their fans are still as wild as ever.

...Mhm.
(Actually, those are fans of Berryz Koubou, a related group... but the fans are extremely similar.)

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4084/img2206bx3.jpg
"Guh, is that all?"

No, Sayumin, it certainly isn't! Momusu splits into smaller subgroups and produces cracky stuff like this!

Memorize your Japanese Capitals.

If my city suddenly started moving, I'd be dead frightened.

They Fly.

They Pretty Up in front of Magical Mirrors.

Oh, and they support environmental awareness!

So, the music is a bit grating, but if you can tolerate some seriously cracked out teenage girls running around squealing 'KAWAII' every five minutes, this is whack enough to check out for the lols. B)

May Momusu shine its light upon you.

[Caael]

Please can I hurt you?

[Jenna]

I doubt it.

[Caael]

I'm personally going to hunt down every wapanese person and feed them sushi until they explode.

[Sea of Time]

I liked it when this forum was all about grunge rock and metal.

[Jenna]

Caael, on Feb 26 2008, 04:58 PM, said:

I'm personally going to hunt down every wapanese person and feed them sushi until they explode.

XDDD

Wapanese, no. If you'd like my music preferences, I'll list it elsewhere. XD But I do find the Japanese pop crap amusing. 8B

[Caael]

It makes my eyes burn.

And SoT, sarcasm makes Caael cry D:

[Moonear]

Oh no! Green vegetables! *runs*

[Elliott]

AW HARRO!!!
This looks really crap.

[Laharl]

its painful to the ear drums....

solid evidence as to why children shouldnt get record deals :/

[Neon]

Sea of Time, on Feb 26 2008, 10:06 PM, said:

I liked it when this forum was all about grunge rock and metal.

Is it bad that I actually think this way? :D

[Caael]

needs moar foo fighters and less jpop

[Saturos S.]

Well, I'm not a fan of Metal and stuff. (Yesh I'm a music stereotyper, grunge rock = metal = death metal and all other rockish stuff that involve guys with overdone black make-up people)

We need beats!

[Jenna]

I like watching y'all thrash them. XD

[Sea of Time]

Caael, on Feb 26 2008, 04:11 PM, said:

It makes my eyes burn.

And SoT, sarcasm makes Caael cry D:

I was serious.

[Laharl]

Jenna, on Feb 27 2008, 05:35 PM, said:

I like watching y'all thrash them. XD

your evil COLON THREE

i'll defend J-music but not this crap

*stabs it*

[Jenna]

Mm, there are a couple of artists from over there I like... Utada Hikaru (and before you make weaboo assumptions, she really is a musical genius...) Shiina Ringo... Vanilla Mood, even though it's all classical (pop-ish.)

The idol business is actually a little sad... Twelve-odd year old (Hello, as young as NINE) girls getting record deals, dropping out of school, being barred from publicly being in romantic relationships, singing like they're being raped, have 35 year old virgin males fawn over them, go to their concerts, do freaky dances, jack off to pictures of their premature little bodies, and the girls grow up in this business forcing plasticky 'KAWAII ^___^' facades, and they end up breaking laws and dating men twice their age and getting pregnant at 19.

[Laharl]

yeah, loli culture is sick.

if add morning to this you get Morning Musume, something considerably better than this

[Jenna]

Umm, this is Morning Musume. ._.

[Laharl]

so it is :/

they look older on their lastfm page >>

thats whati get for comparing it with something that sounds similar which i've never even listened too

/retarded

although that des mean i know someone obssessed with this 'act' *shudder*

[Jenna]

Umm, well, there was a time they looked like this. And today, they look like this... And there was a time they sounded like this... Today they sound like this...

In the second link, notice the expression on the one second from the bottom left. XDD

Camwhore Musume! (That's how they all got into this industry, though... ._.)

[Laharl]

you just stole 10 minutes of my life and want them back!

i'd prefered it whilst i hadnt listened to them x_x

[Jenna]

XDDD

What made them look good in your eyes previous to this? XD

[Laharl]

i dont know......

i was hoping it'd be like the stuff i usually listen to, as in people who can actually sing with some light rock shenanigans supporting.

how wrong i was x_x

[Jenna]

Oh. In that case.

1 2

Those are all I could fish up, 'cause I'm pretty sure I'd seen them before. More like rock, but really not that much better...

[Laharl]

it is an improvement, but in the same way AIDS is better than Ebola.

many considerably better artists

[Jenna]

I Lovelovelove Ayaka's 'Real Voice'. But this defeats the purpose of this thread! >_<

Bring on the crazy nosepicking Japanese chicks who can't sing worth crap.

[Laharl]

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z254/laharl_the_slayer_07/1203716655220.gif

you have single handely shattered my image of the japanese music industry COLON LEFT BRACKET

i dont think i managed more than 10 seconds of any of them XD

[Jenna]

XD I could do more. See: AKB48, Johnny's Jimusho, Harenchi Punch/80Pan, Kira*Pika, C-ute, Berryz Koubou, Kusumi Koharu, Kirarin Revolution, Mini Moni, W, Pucchi Moni, Tanpopo, Buono, Athena to Robikerottsu... I could go on.

But I won't. For the sake of our brains.

We'll just turn a blind eye as Momusu whores its way into the rest of the industry. (This example, said whore'ee isn't too much better...)

[Drizzy Drake]

This topic has becoem the offical Japanes Music topic. Good job guys. :D. No really, I'm happy for you. :o.

Jenna, are you by chance Japanese, or lived in Japan at one time? Or are you jsut really interested in Japanese music?

[Laharl]

Jenna, on Feb 28 2008, 12:38 AM, said:

We'll just turn a blind eye as Momusu whores its way into the rest of the industry. (This example, said whore'ee isn't too much better...)

that was surprisingly amusing

"Gackt: you are going to destroy me" XD

but also disturbing with a group of lolis and there disturbingly middle aged fanbase x_x

down with whoring in the industry!

And Dippyskids, most of this "discussion" is mockery of a horrific subgenre and culture

[Jenna]

Neither. I have a few friends, or have had a few friends over long amounts of time who were Japanese or ridiculously fannish over this stuff... And the rest is history. (I've been considered an encyclopedia on this stuff, it saddens me. T__T Speak an amount, WILL not speak ANY, can read none. 'Cept like, 'no' and 'mi'. XD)

I don't like anime, I don't prefer Japanese music to English/any other language, I don't particularly desire to visit Japan over any other country, And I guess a ridiculous amount of knowledge on cracky Asian sh!t comes with time? =X And as Laharl said, I find this stuff absolutely horrific and maddening.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f276/SakuraFae_Photos/iloveegg.jpg
(Actually, I believe Iloveegg is Korean. Like this and this.)

And if you want to see real loli, check this out. SCARY. (They're more talented than some of their older Japanese counterparts, though...)

[Laharl]

once again i'm horrified x_x

LOLI IS NOT GOOD

In Laharl's Brirtain, anyone under 16 found trying release music would have their voicebox removed.

[Jenna]

What about like, this crap?

...

Which is equally ear-wrenching.

But I don't think anyone else needs my opinion on Disney.

[Someone Else]

The wapanese must die, this topic makes me a happy panda.

Oh, and by the way wapanese people, pandas ARE NOT Japanese.

Wapanese people's response:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z84/WindDude/1203716655220.gif

[Laharl]

you stole my gif D:

not even uncyclopedia logic says your wapanese if you like japanese music :b

[Drizzy Drake]

I know this soudns noobish, but what is wapanese?

[Moonear]

There we have it, uncyclopedia knows all.

EDIT: Wait, there is Encyclopedia Dramatica

EDIT 2: A person who acts Japanese.

[Drizzy Drake]

So liek wiggers? Alright. Not insulting Japanese at all, but why would somebdoy try to be Japanese? Or black? Or white?

[Jenna]

'Cause the stereotypes attached are cool. Girls who want to live in the land/ belong in the misconceived land of kawaii neko-chan pink-haired anime girls, guys who think gangsta is awesome, etc.

[Elliott]

So, wankers, basically?
Trends are ****.

[MaznAzn]

Well, they're like the Miley Cyrus and Hillary Duff of American Pop culture... only...there's thousands of them x.x

Doesn't musume mean b!tch in Japanese? XD I thought it was, or at least a derogatory name towards a woman in their culture.

[Jenna]

No, it means daughter, or general, 'girl'. (As it's often used.)

And HOW did I forget this GEM... It's actually not fanmade.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FZy9sBsRXnk

XD

[PDM]

Caael, on Feb 26 2008, 02:11 PM, said:

I can understand your hate for Wapanese, but to be wapanese and to appreciate some aspects of the japanese culture (be it bad as it is. :3) are two different things.

[Eugine]

I just like Japanese anime and music, and maybe Buddhism. But then, I think Buddhism originated from India or China...

*does a Wiki search*
Yeah, Buddhism originated from India.

[Drizzy Drake]

But yet people think it came from China. Probably because it is practiced there more.

[Laharl]

this definition of wapanese

"Encyclopedia Dramatica" said:

The Wapanese (also called Japanophiles or "Weeaboo") much like wiggers, are cultureless honkies trying to fill their cultural void by pretending not to be white. In this case, by humping the giant Godzilla leg of the Land of the Rising Sun until they are assimilated into its culture, as if being azn is some kind of acquired communicable disease. So badly do they wish this, in fact, that they are willing to dedicate whole afternoons to memorizing up to five common phrases in Japanese and then misusing them at the mall or furry conventions. They frequent sushi bars, the Panda Express in the food court and Sanrio stores on a weekly basis. They are the bane of American youth.

i am not this

but still have a somewhat unnhealthy interest in the culture :/

[Jenna]

I wouldn't doubt you are, but that is certainly no exaggeration; I know many of them, they flood the malls, school halls, of which I am exempt from both. =] They are quite obnoxious, really, but an easy buck is made... I had some old manga laying around my house and made a fair profit off of it from them. =]

[Toasty]

I think my brain melted after 5 seconds.

[Laharl]

Jenna, on Mar 4 2008, 05:02 AM, said:

I had some old manga laying around my house and made a fair profit off of it from them. =]

Genius! i need to offload some crappy manga, i could probably get their soul for a copy of Naruto XD

[Jenna]

Aha, Naruto. That one I had a copy of volume 1 for, I'm not sure how I came into posession of it. I just gave that one away... It was of no value to me.

I sold a few copies of like, Fushigi Yugi, and others I just can't remember... As well as some posters, DVDs, etc...

I really don't like anime, much.

[Laharl]

lulz

been listening to Aiko Kayo a lot recently

turns out she was was rejected from the 2001 Morning Musume competition, and went on to be signed by the anime music group Avex Track. Making infinately better music as a consequence. LOL IRONY

TV Size version because the real video is terrible

yay this will be ignored until Jenna reappears :/