J-Roooooooooooooock!!!!: 3.Influence and affair of Japanese music

There are many affairs related with music and influence from music around the world. For good example, Elvis Presley made a difference between white and black in the U.S., and the song of "We are the world" were made to save African people from starvation and poverty by USA for Africa, a group of famous musicians, and they contributed to the earnings of the song for Africa.
On the other hand, it seems that crimes like murder or robbery happen compared with lyrics of some songs. Music has big power. I will show some example of music's influence in Japan.

Namie Amuro is a famous example. She is a singer and dancer. She songs J-Pop, rock, rhythm and blues, dance music, and so on. She has strongly influenced society, that is to say, she makes some culture of Japan. Her style of performance, sing with hard dance, not simple choregraphy, had been created by herself, and has become popular. Moreover, her appearance were imitated many people called "amurer". Thy put on clothes like pants suits, and made up with dark or blown color and thin blow and tanned their skin because Amuro's looks were so.

Namie Amuro

Also hide, a member of X Japan made strong effect on Japan. X Japan is "visual rock band", which has outstanding looks and performances heavily, sometimes their lyric are aggressive. The band were so popular in Japan, and made the word "visual band". Hide was aguitalist, and had acted solo, too. He was popular in fans of the group, but one day dead suddenly. The death was thought both suicide or accident, but it has been unknown. Some enthusiastic fans did suicide because of his death.

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    Japanese rock bands have been affecting not only domestic bands but also overseas. Nowadays some groups which are affected from visual band in in Japan are appearing in Europa. The reason is that these band have looks like Japanese animation which is popular abroad. But these band will need technique of playing.

   Girls band have been influenced various element. A rock group which made up of only female member is called "girls band". Famous bands like Judy and Mary or scandal or chatmonciy make many girls form bands, or K-On!, famous Japanese animation, led people to make girls band. Now rock is not only for men.

Finally, I show big affair relating to Japanese musician. Tetsuya Komuro, who is a famous musician and producer. He has made many famous and popular songs and produced many groups and singers, and succeed in most of these. But recently he commited fraud. He sold the rights of works that he made, but the rights already had been given others because he did not have enough money. This surprised Japan. Now he change his mind, and makes songs again.