macbound
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@wischls I was solely criticizing the many city Pop fans who actively ignore the black artists who were making the same style of music at the same time. It's the exact same thing with Japanese jazz fans who revere Casiopea, Takanaka and Fukui and don't engage with black artists.
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so much self-righteous city pop hate loops right back into racist territory, ofc there are bad actors but this is clearly someone who knows nothing about the history and influences of the genre
macbound@Kid_Macky
The City Pop phenomenon is so obviously an instance of Thing, Japan. Like, it's no coincidence that the people who are overly enthusiastic abt City Pop don't even know who Bobby Brown, Janet Jackson, or Luther Vandross are.
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People used to look so fucking cool man
Presidential Archive@PresArchive
Jesse Jackson at the 1972 DNC
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#nvm I'm not gonna pay attention to ppl calling me a moron or some shit over a very lukewarm comment abt music
macbound@Kid_Macky
When u have to go through the replies and quote tweets of a popular post u made
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I was specifically talking about who like City Pop but actively ignore Motown and other western music that inspired it, amigo
tara 🎐@tarastallized
….but maybe I like city pop because I also like Motown and western 70s and 80s music too crazy idea I know
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@Kid_Macky "How DARE you like music from that country, you should like music from MY country!" That's not "encouraging people to be more curious", that's just you being a pretentious, insufferable ass who needs to turn his musical tastes into a moral soapbox.
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The City Pop phenomenon is so obviously an instance of Thing, Japan. Like, it's no coincidence that the people who are overly enthusiastic abt City Pop don't even know who Bobby Brown, Janet Jackson, or Luther Vandross are.
Spondor 🌲✞@willowtarka
I’ve loved City Pop for many years now but something just feels very “off”regarding its current surge of popularity in the west. Idk I can’t fully explain but I feel like people like the idea of it more than the actual music itself
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Told myself I wasn't gonna replay the GTA V campaign for a 6th time but I keep seeing ppl post moments from on it on the tl
GTA VI@_GTAVI_
The best mission in GTA 5
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i love city pop to death but, respectfully, playing Rhythm Nation 1814 to a newgen city pop fan would be like giving a sickly victorian child a dorito and It Needs To Happen
macbound@Kid_Macky
The City Pop phenomenon is so obviously an instance of Thing, Japan. Like, it's no coincidence that the people who are overly enthusiastic abt City Pop don't even know who Bobby Brown, Janet Jackson, or Luther Vandross are.
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@elischoop I wasn't even trying to conjecture abt City pop's influences or history or anything, I was just criticizing how most of the City Pop fans interact with the music now
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we are boomeranging into ahistoricism about city pop because tourists don't know how to act
macbound@Kid_Macky
The City Pop phenomenon is so obviously an instance of Thing, Japan. Like, it's no coincidence that the people who are overly enthusiastic abt City Pop don't even know who Bobby Brown, Janet Jackson, or Luther Vandross are.
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@elischoop Okay but I need hating city pop to go mainstream so I can fill out my early takanaka collection
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@Kid_Macky Hot take it seems but you don’t have to know these artists just cuz you listen to the art they influenced. Its fine if you don’t. The only issue is if you try to act like they’re lesser or disregard their influence.
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@douglaschu_ I was gonna include Shalamar but I was afraid not enough ppl were gonna recognize it. I've listened to Night to Remember like 100 times
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@Kid_Macky most of it pales in comparison to the SOS Band or Shalamar
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@bladeloress1 Yeah, I was saying that City Pop fans ignore the black artists with the exact same sound
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@Kid_Macky If you mean in terms of what influenced the music eh not really City pop was more of a late 70s/early 80s thing while Janet and Brown are more of a 90s thing, if you mean just in terms of sound/what city pop fans like then I agree
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Haven't been watching anything (these are from Jul 20th – 28th
Letterboxd@letterboxd
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 🌋
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