Japanese Pop
Japanese pop music. Sounds a lot better and is much more real than American music. The music generally sounds like a mix of pop, rock, and techno. This mixture produces a unique sound that is very pleasing to the ear.
While most of the music is in Japanese, many J-pop songs contain bits of English. Many J-pop song titles and artist names are also in English example Rei Yasuda with song best of my love The best, E-girls with song diamond only, Cyntia with the song Woman, Utada Hikaru with the song Prisoner of love, and Kyary pamyu pamyu with song Candy. You don't need to know Japanese in order to enjoy J-pop.
J-Pop is generally japanese Pop-Music. If you want to describe its style, you can say that it's often a mix between Pop and Rock.
J-pop is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional Japanese music, but significantly in1960spop and rock music, such as The Beatles and The Beach Boys, which led to Japanese rock bands such as Happy End fusing rock with Japanese music in the early 1970s. J-pop was further defined by new wave groups in the late 1970s, particularly electronicsynthpop band Yellow Magic
Orchestraand pop rock band Southern All Stars. Eventually, J-pop replaced kayōkyoku("Lyric Singing Music", a term for Japanese pop music from the 1920s to the 1980s) in the Japanese music scene. The term was coined by the Japanese media to distinguish Japanese music from foreign music, and now refers to most Japanese popular music. The musical genre has been immensely influential in many other music styles, and hence those of neighboring regions, where the style has been copied by neighboring Asian regions, who have also borrowed the name to form their own musical identities.[
In contrast to this, although many Japanese rock musicians until the late 1980s disrespected the kayōkyoku music, many of Japanese rock bands of the 1990s—such as Glay—
At first, the term J-pop was used only for Western-style musicians in Japan, such as Pizzicato Five and Flipper's Guitar, just after Japanese radio station J-Wave was established.[3] On the other hand, Mitsuhiro Hidaka of AAA from Avex Trax said that J-pop was originally derived from the Eurobeat genre. However, the term became a blanket term, covering other music genres —such as the majority of Japanese rock music of the 1990s
In 1990, the Japanese subsidiary of Tower Records defined J-pop as all Japanese music belonging to the Recording Industry Association of Japan except Japanese independent
music (which they term "indie"); their stores began to use additional classifications, such as J-club, J-punk, J-hip-hop, J-reggae, J-anime, and Visual kei by 2008, after independent musicians started to release works via major labels.Ito Music City, a Japanese record store, adopted expanded classifications including Group Sounds, idol of the 1970s–1980s, enka, folk and established musicians of the 1970s–1980s, in addition to the main J-pop genres.
Japanese Idol
Japanese idol culture is nothing new – in fact, it’s been going on for nearly four decades. The phenomenon boomed in the early 1970s, and typically saw girls aged 14 to 16 (and boys aged 15 to 18) find fame as ‘cute’ singers. Since then, it’s been turned into an industry of manufactured musical monstrosities.
In Japanese pop culture, an idol (アイドル aidoru?, a Japanese rendering of the English word "idol") is a young manufactured star/starlet who is promoted as being particularly cute. Idols are intended to be role models everyone adores. They must have a perfect public image and be good examples to young people. Idols aim to play a wide range of roles as media personalities
(tarento), e.g. pop singers, panelists of variety programs, bit-part actors, models for magazines and advertisements.
singing skills; their popular appeal comes largely from the attractiveness of their public image. Idols are not considered "serious" musicians or "serious" actors.
The term is commercialized by Japanese talent agencies, that hold auditions for cute boys and girls with little or no prior experience in the entertainment industry and market them as idols, as a sort of aspiring stars/starlets to be adored for their sweetness and innocence, fallen in love with and to have a frenzied following. people say that the Japanese society is obsessed with cuteness and youth and the idol phenomenon is just a part of the whole Japanese people's adoration of everything that is kawaii.
Talent agencies : Johhnys Entertaiment, Stardust Promotion, Amuse.inc , Avex management, etc.
Idols represent two core tenets in Japanese culture: youth and purity. They must appear chaste and uncorrupted in their private lives; an odd contrast, considering much of the hyper-sexualized material released by idols over the years. When they grow too old, they are phased out – allowed, sometimes, to ‘graduate’ to a full solo career, or else ‘retire’ at the ripe old age of 18. Their chances of living a normal life by this point, however, have waned considerably.
These idol groups have a rotating member system, with members leaving when they get older (or when they want to start a "serious" professional career, or many leave to simply concentrate on their school activities and return to the life of an ordinary teen). Such idol groups and idol projects are usually created as a result of an audition and regularly hold new auditions for members to take the place of the ones who left.
Because they must appear so pure and inexperienced with regards to their private lives, idols are often forbidden from pursuing relationships with men. Take the culture’s latest craze,AKB48: the saccharine girl band’s 140 members, who perform on a rotational basis (allowing the band to put on a show almost every night), are not allowed to date men. As a result, original member Minami Minegishi voluntarily shaved her head last year in a plea for forgiveness, after being
And yet, one of their most recent music videos features bikini-clad members of the band dancing on a beach, while an earlier effort saw the group pillow fighting in their underwear and kissing each other (unsurprisingly, it currently has 107 million hits on YouTube). This stark contrast with the way they conduct their private lives is a frank representation of the over-sexualization of young girls in Japan; seemingly done purely to satiate the perverted whimsies of middle-aged men.
One may argue it’s healthier for men who feel these urges to express them through voyeuristic means, but it’s much more difficult to argue that placing idols on this pedestal of purity is
healthy for the girls themselves. They’re wrapped up in a neat little package, like dolls on a shelf – just out of reach, but still ogled on a regular basis by crazed consumers. All they have to sacrifice is their humanity – at least, for the few short years they remain young enough to be interesting.
Then there’s the ‘handshake events’ – chances for fans to meet n’ greet their idols, sometimes bringing their trusty 20 inch saw along for the ride – which break down the walls between performers and fans, following a gradual shift in idol culture over the past few decades. In the 1970s, idols coveted an air of mystery about their private lives; now, thanks in part to the internet and social media, that’s nearly impossible.
Kesimpulan
Japanese pop music the music generally sounds like a mix of pop, rock, and techno. This mixture produces a unique sound that is very pleasing to the ear. While most of the music is in Japanese, many J-pop songs contain bits of English. Many J-pop song titles and artist names are also in English.
In Japanese pop culture, an idol (アイドル aidoru?, a Japanese rendering of the English word "idol") is a young manufactured star/starlet who is promoted as being particularly cute. . Idols are intended to be role models everyone adores. They must have a perfect public image and be good examples to young people. Idols aim to play a wide range of roles as media personalities
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