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Can Japanese Music Transcend Language Barriers?

On January 4, 2019January 4, 2019 By Tim RattrayIn Insights, Music9 Comments

Why genres like K-pop and J-pop found huge fanbases in the West.

Top 5 non-2017 albums I listened to in 2017

On January 1, 2018November 19, 2018 By Tim RattrayIn Best of the Year Lists, Music15 Comments

Five albums from past years that I discovered and came to love in 2017.

Perfect Blue & a meditation on idol culture

On June 23, 2017July 1, 2017 By Tim RattrayIn Anime, Music26 Comments

Looking at Satoshi Kon's magnum opus through the lens of my recent run-ins with idol culture.

So, those new Gorillaz tracks…

On March 23, 2017 By Tim RattrayIn Music3 Comments

Hmm...

J-pop personas: Perfume, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and Hatsune Miku, and how they’ve changed my life

On January 23, 2017July 22, 2017 By Tim RattrayIn Music2 Comments

In which I examine what makes J-pop acts Perfume, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and Hatsune Miku uniquely special.

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