Did getting into kpop make you decide to check out jpop and/or cpop?

No.

Getting into drama made me check out all sorts but music not so much. Like I watch Japanese Korean Chinese Thai Taiwanese along with anime and I easily adjusted to all of them.

But music? Not so much.

I think Korean music is closest when it comes to staying similar to western music. Japanese music scene for example is very dated. No one gave them the memo that rock/pop rock is dead eye- ofc I do like some anime opening but that’s about it. So even when I knew Japanese music before I knew kpop I was ever interested in checking it out. As for Chinese music I do listen to some of it. Like I did for lay and EXO M version but I never felt like listening more of it.

Quite the opposite for me actually, I remember the huge international wave of visual kei artists in the mid 2000's.

jpop got me into KPOP 🗿

Other way for me, was into Jpop first then Kpop. Cpop was a small dalliance, but not really for me.

No. But I have listened some jrock (one ok rock, scandal etc) cause of my friend's pressure. And I live some anime osts. I like few cpop songs esp those by Jolin Tsai. Jpop songs are not really my taste idk why, and jpop groups styling very weird.

I listened to J-pop and J-rock 8 years before K-pop.

C-pop is too hidden, I have better luck finding something I like in Korean, Japanese or English.

Yep I checked out j-pop and c-pop out of curiosity but didn't end up liking them.

For j-pop I only like perfume and e-girls but I don't listen to them that much

I came from jpop to kpop, so no. I listen to the chinese kpop groups but not more.

no because kpop itself is so vast that i have no time to listen to jpop or cpop and im more familoar with korean and kpop system.

I dived into both before I got into K-Pop.

Because of animes, J-movies, and J-dramas for J-Pop.

Because of Chinese and Taiwanese dramas/movies for C-Pop.

Opposite. I listened to BoA's J-POP tracks first before anything from K-Pop.

NO

a little i'd say but not really. More other k contents though like kdrama

Jpop isn’t really my taste. Cpop isn’t really for me either. However, it did make me dive into CR&B based on some recs when I was listening to WayV. However, it’s more challenging to navigate, esp across Spotify, if you don’t know what you’re looking for and hard to search for artists and songs because I don’t read Mandarin and song titles and sometimes artist names are often in Mandarin.

No, the other way around. Lol

I listened jrock and jpop before kpop that’s how I find out about Boa and Younha, then about Kpop.

I kind of got into Jpop because of vocaloid and anime. This was before I got into kpop.

Cpop not really asides from WayV.

It's basically the other way around

I also am the opposite. First got into Cpop and Jpop through the likes of artists such as Coco Lee and Utada Hikaru, then due to thirst for similar content found SES, 1Tym, Baby VOX and HOT

nope

J-pop until recently was very insular, and finding clips online in good quality was NOT easy. Kinda turned me off from getting into it. I did watch the first season of PD101 Japan and I do like JO1, the group that came out of the season. Otherwise, I'm still firmly rooted in Kpop.

It's the other way around for me.

I discovered kpop because of Jpop.

No, getting into K-pop made me realize how much more integrity, musically, Chinese and Japanese pop-makers have than their Korean counterparts.

Jpop got me to find Kpop instead

I knew Japanese music before KPop

And heck, I got into Japanese music trought Visual Kei-bands

In case someone here has no idea what that is:

In the past since the 80s this where crazy dressed bands, mostly male bands with sometimes member dressed up as a woman. They played mostly anything from Pop-Rock to Metal and so on, depending on what directions in their fashion the band chose. So if a band dressed more colorfull than their music was often more happier etc. Nowadays there is only a small hand full of such bands left and the trend goes more towards boygroups who dress up like that instead of having bands who dress up in that fashion. It also kinda used to be a street fashion statement in the early 2000s but you barly see it in Japan anymore.

This was the literally first Japanese song I ever listend to in 2010:

After a few weeks and knowing a few Japanese artists I somehow found 2NE1 and well ... now I'm here

But the kind of music I listen to nowadays has changed a lot since most artists I liked back than either disbanded, got boring or I just forgot to follow them to keep an eye on their newer releases, but I listen to a lot other acts now and even menage to keep up with a lot of the acts I like now to not miss any of their next releases.

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I also know a few artists who release music in Chinese but mostly from Taiwan but I didn't keep up with them cause they either release too little, I forget to check them or they disbanded allready. The only Chinese act I try to keep up with is INTO1 altho I don't follow them on social media. It's only for Mika, Rikimaru and Santa because I knew them trought their original groups (and I'm sad that Mika's original one had disbanded this year, but well William and Kazuma terminated their contracts with their agency so well...)

Some of my most favourite J-Songs:

And my most favourite C-Songs:

China could reach so much more with their music if the country would not be that fucked up with everything they do

I was actually a jpop listener before getting into kpop. I just never stanned a specific artist. When I got into kpop and learned what stanning was and how it was usually done it made it easier for me to stan other artists as well. I don't listen to cpop much I only listen to like three songs (all from the same artist)

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No, getting into K-pop made me realize how much more integrity, musically, Chinese and Japanese pop-makers have than their Korean counterparts.

Made that new account hungry for bloodshed. I like it.

Through watching PopAsia, I got into Perfume for J pop but I wasn't really into C pop.

i did try to get into jpop when I saw people hyping it up but all I came across was gatekeeped content which was very hard to access and when it was accessible it looked like it was made pre-2010. the closest thing to jpop i listen to would be japanese releases from kpop artists lol

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Quite the opposite for me actually, I remember the huge international wave of visual kei artists in the mid 2000's.

same! ooh I still remember the visual kei bands I loved so much

and even before that I already listened to jpop

It's the other way around, I still listen to Jmusic until now. They're more diverse ig in terms of genre. From old style idols, to kpop like idols, rock band, soloist, visual kei, indie band, metal band, etc. Even the stage performance is interesting, roller skate idols, acrobatics idols, gothic idols, metal idols, or just normal band.

People might find them weird if you're not familiar with JP cultures

But my j-idol fave is quite normal and great singer

No but K-Rock, yes.

In an indirect way. I met someone on this forum who recommended me a Chinese drama, which led me to explore the Chinese entertainment industry more. I am not huge fan of cpop but casually follow it. I am more into Chinese dramas and novels. That's my full time fandom

I did got into Jpop because I follow Kpop group activities in Japan

Still haven't got into Cpop, but I'm kinda into their dramas this year.

Nope

No, I grew up with cpop and jpop so it's not as "new" for me.

Not that I don't like it, but kpop is so much work just keeping up with it, I'm not sure I have to energy and time to start exploring jpop and cpop again, especially now that they are pumping out kpop groups like bunnies and the number of new songs weekly.

I was already into some M-pop (mandarin) and some C-pop (cantonese) before kpop

not really into j-pop