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                                             October 10, 2012
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                                             October 26, 2013

Listening to the J-pop used in anime,
you can see a tendency to indulge in
horrible 70s-style guitar cheese for    wheedle-wheedle-wheedle-wheedle-wee-wee
decades after it had gone out of
fashion in the US.
                                               SEVEN_NOT_PLUS
"Visual Kei" bands, despite their
goth-beyond-goth looks tend to sound
more like 70s cheese-metal.                By an odd quirk, sometime around
                                           1990, I once ended up spinning
                                           records for the "international
                                           crowd" (i.e. eurotrash) at a
                                           party in Palo Alto.

                                           They had what I thought was a
                                           terribly cool, hip look about them,
     Near the end of the last              which I ultimately found confusing:
     century, there was something          I couldn't get them interested in
     like a ten year lag in                college radio post-punk like the
     musical fashions.                     Replacements.  They all loved things
                                           like Michael Jackson's "Thriller"

                      But visual fashions
                      seemed to be
                      transmitted faster
                      than musical ones.
                                                       CONNECTIVITY

    These days, to my ear, J-pop is more in sync with
    "American fashion"-- indeed it may not be at all
    correct to think of it as "American" any more,
    maybe we have a global scene.


        But my ear is not exactly a dedicated, experienced
        one, in this realm. I'm not really up on "popular music"...

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