J-Pop and K-Pop Music

Music is a large part of Japanese culutre, everything from karaoke to traditional Japanese music. J-pop, Japanese pop music, and K-pop, Korean pop music, are also both huge here. Teenagers and even adults listen to it, and it's really good and catchy. It's basically just the Japaneses version of America's pop, mainstream music that plays over and over on the radio. I have so many songs from both genres on my ipod. The most popular J-pop bands are AKB48, (which is a pop group of 48 girls), BENI, Kat-Tun, and Yuki. Some popular K-pop groups, whose lyrics are sometimes changes to Japanese, are Big Bang (MY FAVORITE!), Girl's Generation SNSD, Taeyang, G-Dragon, and 2NE. American music is also very common here, like Micheal Jackson, Brittney Spears, Avril Lavinge, Justin Bieber, One Direction (which they call ichi di di), Katy Perry, Celine Dion, Katy Perry, and of course Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe." I knew that song was going to be impossible to leave behind. 

Here are some of my favorite J-pop and K-pop songs from Youtube: 

K-pop: Taeyang Wedding Dress (Korean Lyrics)
K-pop: Big Bang bad Boy (Korean Lyrics)
J-pop: Girl's Generation SNSD: Gee (Japanese Lyrics)
J-pop: BENI Dear Elie (English Lyrics)