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for some reason Japanese music is seen as particularly hip by some, but more when it uses styles already very familiar in the West.
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Japanism adds a special sprinkle of sparkle. The cute accents of of the girl bands that sing in English is beauty that has been refined since Sei Shonagon. And the extremes that Merzbow insists upon take us to mountaintop Zen meditation epiphanies. That stuff deserves to be thought of as hip.