How popular is Asian pop culture in your country? (homes, living in)

[cali3448893]

I like Korean music

[OZpharmer]

Originally Posted by cali3448893

I like Korean music

But almost every song sounds alike - similar musical styles(not much variety), clothings/outfits, etc.

[Tom9]

Originally Posted by OZpharmer

But almost every song sounds alike - similar musical styles(not much variety), clothings/outfits, etc.

Depends on what you are used to hearing. The more you listen the more you see the subtle differences in style. Many people tell me all jazz sounds the same. But to me it doesn't. Like any music the tempo varies, the rhythm varies, the color tones are different etc. etc.

[OZpharmer]

Originally Posted by Tom9

Depends on what you are used to hearing. The more you listen the more you see the subtle differences in style. Many people tell me all jazz sounds the same. But to me it doesn't. Like any music the tempo varies, the rhythm varies, the color tones are different etc. etc.

Jazz alone isn't what mainstream American music is all about. There's so much more to it - rock&roll, rock, funk, R&B, hiphop/rap, country, alternative, (sometimes)Latin, and the list goes on. Whereas the mainstream Korean music doesn't produce such a wide range of genres.

[Tom9]

Originally Posted by OZpharmer

Jazz alone isn't what mainstream American music is all about. There's so much more to it - rock&roll, rock, funk, R&B, hiphop/rap, country, alternative, (sometimes)Latin, and the list goes on. Whereas the mainstream Korean music doesn't produce such a wide range of genres.

That's true but the Chinese, the Koreans and the Japanese are using their traditional music to create new sounds and an original pop music. They are beginning to do what the west did in the sixties and that is incorporate other musics into their traditional mold. But my point is that all of the genre you mentioned above sound the same to those who do not follow modern music. I used jazz simply as an example of how the ear works or reacts to certain combinations of sound. I could have just as well used flamenco to which the uninitiated in that art say it all sounds the same but the die hard aficionado will argue that the differences of style are great because he hears it more clearly. I have even heard some people say that all Spanish music sounds the same. Yet the difference between a paso doble and a sevillana is markedly different to a listener who has developed an ear for that area's music.

[Capsuleneo]

K-pop may has it's niche outside of Asia, but it likely won't expand too far beyond that. It's still a looooooong way from even the Latin craze in pop music of the late 90s, when Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias were selling millions albums and selling out stadiums all over the world. To pretend like K-pop is popular in Europe and North America is ridiculous to me. I know Koreans have this intense desire to market their culture abroad. Nothing wrong with that. But sometimes they tries way to damn hard. And let's be honest, there's a large percentage that wants to be accepted by white people. It's corny.

[Trimac20]

Originally Posted by OZpharmer

Jazz alone isn't what mainstream American music is all about. There's so much more to it - rock&roll, rock, funk, R&B, hiphop/rap, country, alternative, (sometimes)Latin, and the list goes on. Whereas the mainstream Korean music doesn't produce such a wide range of genres.

Jazz is the cream of the crop though .

[Trimac20]

Originally Posted by Capsuleneo

K-pop may has it's niche outside of Asia, but it likely won't expand too far beyond that. It's still a looooooong way from even the Latin craze in pop music of the late 90s, when Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias were selling millions albums and selling out stadiums all over the world. To pretend like K-pop is popular in Europe and North America is ridiculous to me. I know Koreans have this intense desire to market their culture abroad. Nothing wrong with that. But sometimes they tries way to damn hard. And let's be honest, there's a large percentage that wants to be accepted by white people. It's corny.

Plastic surgery is an example. For those who deny that many are blatantly trying to look European, I've seen documentaries where they literally say things like 'I want to look more European/like a white person.'

[Almeida93]

In all honesty here the young gothic geeky awkard person seem to make the majority of magna and anime tv. Video games are more mainstream, but what i dont like is how many of these game want you to sort of immerse yourself to the point. They are very complicated, want to be very philosophical, and sometimes it is just downright ridiculous.

In film or in tv, many of the eastern asians actors are either a funny person or a bad guy who knows martial arts. Females are also funny or the sidekick of the main antagonist who knows martial arts.

Films that are brought here from the same region are either scary or about martial arts.

Psy and some group made out of 15 plus teenagers with funny hairstyles are the only Korean singers i have heard of.

On the plus side Japanese and China history are awsome. Ranging from the samurai to the great walls to the honor codes and the book the art of war are awsome. I think the modern popular culture of Korea and japan is my pet peeve.

I dont like the south east asia reputation of the place where crepy western men seek teenage girls, or the Japanese octopus and cartoon porn, and how girls from Korea and japan who want to be cute looking sound like toddlers.

[Trimac20]

Originally Posted by Almeida93

I dont like the south east asia reputation of the place where crepy western men seek teenage girls, or the Japanese octopus and cartoon porn, and how girls from Korea and japan who want to be cute looking sound like toddlers.

LOL thanks for the laugh mate!