#J-POP

J-POP is a lightweight emotional seasoning masquerading as domestically produced popular music. It slips into the crevices of your ears, only to reveal you dancing to a corporate marketing strategy. Lyrics are stitched together like sitcom dialogue snippets, while the sound tickles the brain like mass-produced, colorful candy. At live shows, a sense of communal fulfillment is traded for manufactured euphoria, with official merchandise lining the exits like commercial decorations. A wandering specter of pop culture trapped between art and consumption.