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Originally Posted by bloppyblue
My friends and I are planning on writing a couple songs and we arrived at the question of what makes Japanese music sound the way it does, compared to English music here in North America...
We've noticed the obvious; There are a lot more female singers in j-rock bands and generally the songs are more happy (instead of about impending doom and death and other people's doom and their death).
What makes Japanese rock sound so much different than North American rock?
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Japanese rock is much more willing to cross and mix so-called musical motifs ...so you'll hear 'jazz', 'piano', odd musical transitions, pop inflections and heavy metal in the same song. They take all the elements they hear and mix them without any preconceptions.
It tends to throw western ears off initially but I find a lot of similarity between '80s rock-pop groups and much of what I find spinning the dial of japanese pop and rock.