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sure, keep crying about not being able to give money to a company who clearly doesn't want it.
 
@ the subject: it's honestly their loss. domestic sales keep declining and as much as overseas purchases might not have given them much, it's still a shitty thing to do. your move, Sony!

Asagi foretold this prophecy which is why D started flopping hard enough to get dropped from Avex. Wonderland has truly been saved!

they gonna fuck or

yas @ pierrot revival!
 
un-yas @ pierrot working with that trash
 
(yas @ lmc presumably being finally dead)

well that sounds awful so far, but look at those gaijin!
look at tha daddy!! former indie darlings have grown up now and can afford wypipo promotion!

mama's gotta be washed up to be playing with fucking sqf of all people

Nah, it's the good Vivid.

lmao of course

hope you're prepared for the usual stale arguments of
i don't understand the language which means its better because western lyrics are usually bad!! glorious nihonjin make ongaku better than white devils something about not being mainstream  
 
also cheers

I feel like Finnish and Estonian both most definitely belong to that category of melodic languages, and in fact I've had more than one Estonian tell me that they believed some perceived similarity in ' linguistic flow' actually helped them to acquire Japanese and/or Korean at a faster & easier rate

While this is true for German - that language is phonetically repulsive - I think it's a little unfair to use that as the example. French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Icelandic are all Languages spoken within the eu and while none of them have a similar structure to a Japanese syllable (I'm wording this terribly but I hope it comes across), they all are soft like Japanese and flow well. The Icelandic Novembers are probably just as easy to listen to. 

hope you're prepared for the usual stale arguments of
i don't understand the language which means its better because western lyrics are usually bad!! glorious nihonjin make ongaku better than white devils something about not being mainstream  
 
also cheers

Ok, I may have generalized a bit too much on my first post, as I really do think MH has some of the best opinionated people on japanese music around the webs, and that statement is more for the generic weeaboo we found lurking around elsewhere. I think people's points on phonetics are really interesting and explain a part of the audience preferences (The more musically mature, I believe). Most of people here that defended the idea of japanese phonetics sounding better to them are the ones I actually really look forward to reading opinions around here, even if most of the time I don't listen to the same stuff they do.
 
I'm brazilian, so portuguese is my native language. I really do believe you can't do better than latin-based languages when talking about smooth, slow-tempo or ballad songs. However, when talking about rock, we sound like shit. Some rock tune sang in english will sound 3000x better, and that's it. Maybe it's just my point of view, but I think you guys are onto something.
 
I'm sticking to music only, cuz I don't really care about looks and I don't understand how that affects on something like music taste. I think we all agree that VK bands ain't the most innovative kids on the playground,  but there's something structurally interesting on those songs, even if sometimes the parts of the composition are not really original. A typical VK song would be "intro, verse, bridge/pre-chorus, chorus, verse/bridge, chorus, solo, bridge/pre-chorus chorus, outro" something like that, right? any of you guys agree that this is something that also attracts people? Friends that don't listen to japanese music calls this "anime-sounding music". This was the first thing that draw my attention when I was introduced to japanese music, and it's something that stuck with me. Maybe this is also a part of the puzzle.
 
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hope you're prepared for the usual stale arguments of
i don't understand the language which means its better because western lyrics are usually bad!! glorious nihonjin make ongaku better than white devils something about not being mainstream  
 
also cheers

hope you're prepared for the usual stale arguments of
i don't understand the language which means its better because western lyrics are usually bad!! glorious nihonjin make ongaku better than white devils something about not being mainstream  
 
also cheers

hope you're prepared for the usual stale arguments of
i don't understand the language which means its better because western lyrics are usually bad!! glorious nihonjin make ongaku better than white devils something about not being mainstream  
 
also cheers

how fucking dare u
 
 

hope you're prepared for the usual stale arguments of
i don't understand the language which means its better because western lyrics are usually bad!! glorious nihonjin make ongaku better than white devils something about not being mainstream  
 
also cheers

One thing connected to this whole language bias-based hypocrisy business I always thought to be funny is when people are like, SUPER insistent that they listen to Japanese music because they think 'the lyrics are deep'. I'll be up front by saying that IMO listening to music solely because of the lyrics is already kind of ??? in general, but this situation remains funny to me regardless.
I guess it's mostly amusing because, quite often, the people exclaiming that kind of stuff don't even speak a single lick of Japanese outside of entry-level anime vocabulary and pretty much almost entirely base their opinions on translations that have most likely been done by some college student who's two or three months into their Japanese Culture BA sitting with a thesaurus on their lap in order to find the longest and fanciest words possible in order to translate their aidoru's "wooooooow i dont wanna go to bed at 9 pm mom im 12 now"-tier lyrics because only they truly understand their poetry

hope you're prepared for the usual stale arguments of
i don't understand the language which means its better because western lyrics are usually bad!! glorious nihonjin make ongaku better than white devils something about not being mainstream  
 
also cheers

hope you're prepared for the usual stale arguments of
i don't understand the language which means its better because western lyrics are usually bad!! glorious nihonjin make ongaku better than white devils something about not being mainstream  
 
also cheers

hope you're prepared for the usual stale arguments of
i don't understand the language which means its better because western lyrics are usually bad!! glorious nihonjin make ongaku better than white devils something about not being mainstream  
 
also cheers

hope you're prepared for the usual stale arguments of
i don't understand the language which means its better because western lyrics are usually bad!! glorious nihonjin make ongaku better than white devils something about not being mainstream  
 
also cheers

hope you're prepared for the usual stale arguments of
i don't understand the language which means its better because western lyrics are usually bad!! glorious nihonjin make ongaku better than white devils something about not being mainstream  
 
also cheers