Why is Japan the only good Asia country when it comes to music?

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Haha fuck you OP you forget the glorious music of Dear Leader's most magnificent military and prosperous peoples. Now go to labor camp.

>>68360038
>inb4 some /daily/fag or RYMer cries about his favorite trad piece or some shitty psych comp from some third world asia shithole
I was so ready to talk about thai Molam, no I can't :(

Because unlike other Asian countries, they have a lot of big corporations, both international and domestic investing money into their entertainment industry. Combine that with a government that is just itching for tourism and you have a "thriving" entertainment industry.

Reminder that good entertainment and good art (or, good music) are not synonymous.

Japan isn't really part of Asia. America likes to pretend so because they hate slanty eyed people, but really they're not. See asians speak in a ping pong language but the japanese speak in a capibara language. It's an entire different sound system for a different race.

>>68360038
but traditional music is really good, you fucking faggot

>>68360038
>WHY IS JAPAN THE ONLY GOOD ASIAN MUSIC
>BY THE WAY, YOU CANNOT BRING UP THESE OBVIOUS REBUTTALS BECAUSE I SAID SO

fucking stupid, dude

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>>68360158
How is that possible when their language historically branched off of Chinese?

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>>68360038
Japan's music scene is awesome...

Check out Seaside Lovers - Memories in Beach House, plus Taeko Onuki's Sunshower and Frenesi - Cupra...good luck

>>68360136
>>68360245
>>68360276
>>68360158
shut the fuck up

>>68360284
I don't know where you heard that but it isn't at all.

>>68360284
this is so wrong that I am physically angry

>>68360284
They just copied the chinese alphabet you mong, japanese is a language isolate

>>68360328
>alphabet

>>68360349
kanji=hanzi

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>>68360302
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language

http://web.mit.edu/jpnet/articles/JapaneseLanguage.html

http://linguistics.byu.edu/classes/Ling450ch/reports/japanese.htm

>>68360292
japan is gay

>>68360285
>Japanese Hip Hop
>No Teriyaki Boys

This is bullshit.

>>68360285
I have a feeling that none of the text around that picture means anything.
Also
>hip hop category
>no Rip Slyme
シッギディッギ

>>68360383
i will fucking hurt you i swear!! i mean it!! dont make me!

>>68360377
So what you're saying that vietnamese is descended from latin?

>>68360360
still not an alphabet, chinese characters are ideograms, logograms, or abstract symbols, hiragana and katakana are syllabaries as well, not alphabets

>>68360377
that's the writing system, not the language itself you ばか

>>68360424
the writing system is latin with diacritcs that were introduced in the 20th century as most Vietnamese were illiterate and couldn't read the chinese character vietnamese used to be written in

>>68360292
Or what, you gonna shitpost at me?

Korea's working its way up to eventually becoming a "good music country", but it's going to be a painful and arduous process as we wait for all the interesting, creative music to rise out from under the Hallyu rubbish.

It'll never have the population that Japan has (even if the two Koreas unite, which would be wonderful), nor the fortune (as Japan was) to be at the peak of its riches throughout the most interesting and experimental periods of modern music history, nor will their ever be the high level of freedom of expression that exists in Japan and which in a way exceeds even that in Western countries. If there ever is a Golden Age of Korean music it will be because of Korea's strengths: the pop industry - and being able to create pop music in a specific cultural context which is more vibrant than that in other countries. Korea's ignorance of the notion of "cultural appropriation" has already produced some interesting hybrids between Bollywood and Korean pop, an exchange which bothers no Indian listener but for political reasons would be completely unthinkable in Western pop.

Stuff I've been listening to lately, just to throw some examples at you (and this is probably on a list of Korean essentials, so if anyone can post that in order to expand my recommendations that'd be lovely):

Beautiful, timeless acoustic songwriting from Kim Doo Soo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZF22bThg4U

Lovely Korean / Japanese electropop (of which there's quite the burgeoning scene in Korea lately) produced and performed by a girl named Aseul:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqw7ChnHAl0

Some purely transportative free jazz improvisation by Kang Tae-Hwan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id14o3DZQ-o

>muh japan
>muh animu
>muh samurai spirit
Fucking weebs ruining /mu/. Can't talk about foreign music ever unless it's from le epic anime paradise

Is this the right thread to talk about Indonesian gamelan music?

>>68360713
Have you looked at the global music market share lately?

>>68360731
I will fucking kill you if you try you bitch

Anyone got a torrent of REOL's new album?

>smoke a few weeds
>pop 5 red pills
>put on some li xianglan
>brush up on my ancient chinese

>>68360158
>Japan isn't Asian
Dumbest shit I have ever heard

>>68360713
>>68360746
Aye, Japan has the largest population of any developed nation apart from the USA.

The second largest rich country.

And accordingly, the second largest music industry.

To add to that, it's the only big, developed nation not to have arisen from a traditionally European culture.

It's kind of obligatory to pay attention to it.

>>68360811
Surely you've heard koreans claim Korea is half of the cultural phenomenon Japan is.

>>68360285
>avant
>no The Gerogerigegege

>>68360731
Fuck yeah. Do you like jaipong? It's kind of a modern on traditional gamelan music for the popular music age. Proper songs, rather than just ceremonial gonging. Developed by cassette recordings being passed around from friend to friend during the 80s. Very "Music from Saharan Cellphones" sort of feel to it.

I love this track called Naon Margina:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcOY_HV1fnY

>>68360811
I know right
Also the "Japan branched from Chinese" cracked me up. So much misinformation.

>>68360880
Do not engage him and delete your post please.

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So when will China become a good music country?

And due to its population size, won't it completely dominate the rest of us?

Idk man Mongolian throat singing isn't half bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx8hrhBZJ98

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rmo3fKeveo

>>68360928
Sorry, man, can't hear you over the sound of all these slammin' jaipong gongs.

>>68360972
Hail to the Khan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBnAZ_qSYJU

>>68360706
>kang tae-hwan

my negro

>>68360285
was 100% of yuour research for this list done on rateyourmusic.com/charts/topJapaneseAlbums

Anison (anime songs) is my favorite genre and it's only made in Japan for obvious reasons.

>>68360038
End your life, philistine.

I love Japanese music! I always listen to the Haruhi ED at breakfast. My parents tell me to turn the volume down but they dont understand my japanese spirit! orz

>>68360972
>tfw you will never be a steppe nomad

What is your favourite Japanese song? Mine is the Death Note opening. It's epic \m/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGQAjAjsZNo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPntjTPWgKE

This is my favourite animu song