flatrute wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:02 pm It is funny to read this as a J-Core listener since new music with weird and/or brand new genres come out consistently and the buying/selling of CD records directly in annual conventions is (still) commonplace though to be fair it is Japan after all

It sounds like Japan is a cultured and well developed country. I am not even cynical, I am serious, because all those algorithms keep degenerating art in any kind, it even doesn't matter if it's music or a Youtube video or something else, you must do what the god (the algorithm of the company) wants and not what is coming out of your heart in western countries. (There are only a few exceptions)

But is it really like this in Japan? Aren't there huge companies with their algorithms controlling how music have to be structured and how it has to sound to fit for the masses? Can you post a link to your favorite songs? I am curious how they sound...