Japan’s big push to make us listen to its World’s Crappiest Music
In the understatement of the year this story says that, “Hikaru Utada’s first English-language debut album, Exodus, did not do as well.” Hell, of course J-pop singers like Utada fail with they foist off insipid lyrics like, “I still remember the ways that you touched me./Now I know that I don’t mean anything to you./You’re easy breezy, and I’m Japanesy.” Sheesh.
Yahoo! News - Japan makes big push to aims to take Western music world by storm
CANNES, France (AFP) - After taking the world by storm with its video games, manga cartoons and cars, Japan now wants to its get music better known around the globe…….”We want to promote our music more vigorously to the rest of the world,” the President of Japan’s external trade organisation, JETRO, Hiroshi Tsukamoto told AFP in an interview here…
… not many Japanese artists have managed big hits to date outside of their home country. Crossover New-York born singer Hikaru Utada’s first English-language debut album, Exodus, did not do as well in the United States last year as hoped.
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