(08-11-2009, 11:27 AM)cathb Wrote: I've already stated

(08-11-2009, 02:35 PM)iceybabes Wrote: I was just saying

(08-11-2009, 04:07 PM)VAMPS + American Street Team + Wrote: I didn't say you said

Quote:I was making the argument

And she said that he said that you said that she said that he said that he argued that she said he stated....
AGH, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE DX *head explodes*

But to respond to that, I'll have to agree that I definitely prefer the sound and lyrics of Japanese music a lot better, but that's not to say American music doesn't have talent. MAINSTREAM American music certainly doesn't anyway. If you ever listen to indie American music, you can see they work hard to put every detail into its appropriate place. Those are the kind of American bands I like. But mainstream Japanese music isn't without its flaws either. A lot of the times, mainstream Japanese musicians... yeah, somehow I have a feeling everyone knows who I'm talking about, lawl ... tend to write the exact same songs several thousand times. The popularity gets to their head and they become just a tad cliché, in my opinion. Sometimes VAMPS even fall under that kind of problem. But to compensate, they have a different way of expressing it and rather than writing about the exact same song, the song itself bears a completely different tune and tend to talk about different categories of the same topic.

So yeah, to put it simply, the more mainstream you get into with any culture, the less the talent will show, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it lacks talent. Again, check out some indie bands. They're usually pretty good. Not exactly great, but you can tell they put some effort into it. But that's enough of that. I personally don't think this is the right topic to discuss this in anyway. Lawl.