# True Confessions: JPOPSUKI

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-confessions-jpopsuki/366943>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 1, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-confessions-jpopsuki/366943 "2006-08-01T22:14:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-confessions-jpopsuki/366943/1 "2006-08-01T22:14:12Z")

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Okay, I’m listening to stuff that if it were on the my radio I’d turn it off in a heartbeat. What is it about JPOP that makes the most schlocky prefab pop more listenable if it is in Japanese?

Plus the videos are corny fun in general (when their not preternaturally beautiful or just odd – you know Bork-odd).

Is there a 12-step program?

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**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-confessions-jpopsuki/366943/2 "2006-08-01T22:23:59Z")

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Its better because you have no clue what they are saying. So the language just becomes part of the sound of it. And Japanese unlike say French or Farsee sounds pretty.

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**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-confessions-jpopsuki/366943/3 "2006-09-13T08:31:55Z")

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[QUOTE=Push You Down]  
Its better because you have no clue what they are saying. So the language just becomes part of the sound of it. And Japanese unlike say French or Farsee sounds pretty.  
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And it is really fun – I mean happy fun – what is with that?

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**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-confessions-jpopsuki/366943/4 "2006-09-13T13:29:46Z")

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Happy fun and unapologetically genre pilfering. Want 80s-style hair metal? Light R&B? In the same song? You’ll find in in J-Pop.