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« on: July 13, 2007, 11:14:58 PM »
I personally like the J, because J-Rock has a very different feel from other music(to me at least). I have lots of music from all over the world and usually I can't tell the difference between american, german, french, or whatever except sometimes from the vocals. But when I have my ipod on shuffle and a J-Rock song comes up, it's pretty obvious it's japanese even before I heard the vocals.
I dunno enough music theory to explain why but theres a very different feel to J-Rock. I know part of it is it always seems that japanese artists don't mind experimenting with their music as much, but theres more than that.
For me it's a lot harder to label japanese music with sub-genres because theres so much of a different feel to it. So I like being able to just call it J-Rock and not have to worry about sub-genres.
I will agree though that it's not really a good genre name, since it doesn't apply to all japanese music and I'm sure there are some bands outside of japan that have similar types of music. But unfortunately genre names are always terrible, and there are so many poorly-named genres and fake genres made up by fans that cause bands to get mis-labled or be labled poorly. I think the current genre system we have is shit for the most part and think it's in need of some big changes.
Not gonna happen though, oh well.
Edit:
Yeah I think that was a really dumb idea for S.K.I.N. to play at an anime convention. Over here in America anime fans are in a minority and severely looked down upon. A lot of people won't touch a band that gets associated with anime, regardless of how the music sounds. All plans to "conquer the west" will fail miserably if all they do is cater to anime fans.