Greetings, Jezzies! I've seen a couple posts (by commenters not articles) on Jez about Asian pop music, and how female pop artists from there are all "cutesty" and trying to be "infantile". Since this is the exact opposite of my general experience with music from the massive continent, I wanted to share some of my…

Quick survey of popular Mandopop female acts

Quick survey of popular Mandopop female acts

It's strange, because they market it very differently in other countries. I know it's weird, but the first trailer I ended up seeing for this movie was the Japanese one (it was shown on something I was watching) and it's... Verrry different.

And then you have f(x)'s Luna who, when she was like 15, was constantly called a horse by the media and other celebs for being muscular instead of just thin. And CSJH's Stephanie, who is a professional ballerina, was too "fat" to be a dancer according to many many shows over there. Disgusting disgusting.

Okay I'm only a CS student so I can only speak to it from that level, but while it is true there are sexist jerks running around, there's also guys who tell them to shut up, and there's more and more women getting into the industry as well. It's not bleak, it's getting better, in my opinion!

It's in Japan I think (I don't see any English at all on the signs, just Japanese). And she went to the arcade! Best part. Or I'm a loser (signs point to yes)

It's funny how everyone here assumes, despite the fact that the mother is clearly a massive asshole and possible unhinged, that she's telling the truth about what the daughter did. When I was a teen, I was punished repeatedly for similar things (lying about where I was), doing drugs, etc. All because my mom just…

They did this with The World Ends With You too, and it ended up just being an iOS version. Maybe they're releasing CoM and Coded to iOS.

I've actually been noticing a lot of womens' tops are already like this. I've been trying to wear more womens' clothing, but so much of it is just so sheer and thin that my bra shows through regardless of the color. I guess we're supposed to layer? But it's over 35 in the summer and "MORE LAYERS" is the last thing I…

So, just being clear here. It's okay to make fun of, snark on, and be generally nasty about teen girls who are obsessed with teen idols (from that post a day or so ago), but it's not okay to snark on men who obsess over a show?

The number of "I HAVE A DAUGHTER AND I TOTALLY AGREE" posts in the comments on the article make me really sad for said daughters.

Stromae's Racine Carrée and f(x)'s Pink Tape, both from this year. I'm going to be pre-ordering Scandal's Standard soon as well. I buy way too much music I think.

Similar! I think Junko and Teruzane were married and divorced six or so times through her life, though neither ever married anyone else that I've heard of. Made it a bit hard on their daughter (who also went on to become a singer )

I wrote a short little thing on a singer I liked who passed away recently - on Utada Junko, also known as Fuji Keiko.

Perfect for Nilin cosplay! Well not really, perfect for /lazy/ Nilin cosplay.

Even China goes for names like The Flowers, or if we expand to mandopop in general there's Lollipop F and Fahrenheit.

None of my neighbors have interesting names; they're all 5 random characters (all alphanumeric). Mine's Skynet, but I get the feeling it's lost on my neighbors.

ok trying to think of a way to say this without being an ass, but the reason Japanese groups don't sing in Korean is because the Japanese market is actually big enough to make a lot money off of, so they don't have to. The Korean market is a lot lot smaller, so you see the groups expanding into Japan, China, and…

No epic female-centric stories with a female hero? I guess she skipped out on a lot of YA besides HP.