We hate J-Tags

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Created on: 10 Mar 2009
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Music is something universal, I don't like bands just because they're from Japan, I like their music because it's good and nothing more, J-Tags are something like reverse discrimination.

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kacper92

I really don't undestand why there is J-pop tag or J-rock I mean there are a lot of German rock bands who sing in GERMAN and we don't have a G-ROCK G-METAL G-POP tag. at all. for me, Rock, Pop, Metal it's the same, it doesn't matter in what language the people sing!! [2] And they can't even decide what does this silly term means xD Whoever defends this J-(genre) tagging is a douche.

January 2012
mellodywords

The number of members in this group makes every argument about J-Tags is invalid and irrelevant, brb while I rofl.

January 2012
Arashinightmare

The f**k are RHCP, My Chem, and SOAD doing in this group?

January 2012
Kaolla_chan

no wonder the charts are full of j-rock. trying so hard to be hipsters and not happy at all that their ''underground'' music is tagged as popular. [2]

December 2011
Japistachoco

Lady Gaga is in the group charts. What the fuck people? [2]

August 2011
Tzukimono

It's incorrect to use romaji tags, just like it is to use katakana for american bands.

July 2011
moonra-zk

I like bands only because they're japanese dealwithit.png [2] I don't know why, I'm not japanophile, but I do like some bands only because they're japanese. Like UVERworld, for example.

May 2011
DEATHINFIREX

I like bands only because they're japanese dealwithit.png

April 2011
Nemesisyume

no wonder the charts are full of j-rock. trying so hard to be hipsters and not happy at all that their ''underground'' music is tagged as popular.

March 2011
Twiggyay

HURR DURR DIR EN GREYS HAGESHISA SINGLE IS TOTALLY JPOP AND JROCK Not metalcore at all, no. Fuck it hate all fans of music that comes from Japan.

March 2011
ArgentumAbyssus

Just because an artist is from Japan doesn't mean that you have to use the J tag. If I'm listening to (Insert Japanese band here) and want someone similar to them, regardless of their nationality, I'd like the appropriate tags used. Not everything in Japan is J-Rock too! Just because they use guitars, doesn't mean they're J-Rock! This frustrates me to no end!

March 2011
HoloPolymath

V No one is disputing whether it is considered a genre by anyone else; in fact the existence of this group acknowledges as an antagonist those who claim J-tags are completely legitimate. I won't say I hate the tag, but in the end it can't distinguish someone like Shiina Ringo from Ayumi Hamasaki, or Galneryus from Dir En Grey. It'd be much more helpful to categorize more specifically when one needs to discern whether an artist is worth checking out. The problem is, with the general scope of the "J-" tag, I could be listening to Dir En Grey when I want to find something similar to Galneryus, or listening to Ayumi Hamasaki when I want something more innovative like Shiina Ringo's music.

March 2011
kanto_sho

Something which is much harder to swallow than the tags is the habit using capital letters for japanese groups and artists.

February 2011
JarethDrakul

The J-tag annoys me because alot of artists I like are tagged in a style they don't perform like alot of electro or industrial artists get tagged J-Rock when they haven't do anything remotely rock.

February 2011
rosencorp

Lady Gaga is in the group charts. What the fuck people?

January 2011
alemii

I like the tags, because when you want to scrobble a certain music from a certain country, you will get that certain music.

January 2011
pablo774

@Nagashiwa: we have these tags for german music: http://www.lastfm.de/tag/deutschrock http://www.lastfm.de/tag/german%20rock these terms have been used for over 40 years now

January 2011
storm-and-fire

I wouldn't really mind J-tags, but the problem is that many people use them totally wrong. And that's why we have a very big number of Japanese artists tagged as j-pop or j-rock, even when their music is not pop or rock at all. :/

January 2011
kusumoto

Holy shit Nemesisyume it's on Wikipedia! Oh my god it is definitely fact now. It's confirmed guys. We should just close this group. We are fools to doubt Wikipedia.

December 2010
mc08

Agree 110% with MrRobotics; don’t understand either why people get so worked up over tags like this or even anime ones. Given the logic espoused here, c-tags and k-tags also “must never” be used to describe Chinese and Korean music respectively. Also, I’m sorry to say, moonra-zk’s shout far down below made my eyes roll… nationality of an artist is not a valid reason to justify why you like (or dislike, for other people) music from a certain country or countries. Good music is good music, regardless of origin and language.

December 2010