Who are some of your favorite J-Pop & J-Rock artists?

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

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No pls keep it going xD This thread needs more love, honestly

I love Jpop and Jrock and while I'm not huge on J-Pop idol boy groups, I do think I should probably listen to more. I tend to be more into solo artists when it comes to Jpop/Jrock, so it's actually a good thing that you suggested so many boy groups lol

Ok if I think you need this...

Here are some more (And still not all)

(And for the song with Korean name, no I did not mistake something here, that is in fact by a JPop group)

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Btw are they all Jpop? Or are some of them also Jrock?

I'm not going to spoiler anything, you need to figure it out on your own

And since I feel like it, here are some random JPop-idol pics

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Geeeesh!

How the hell do you manage to remember almost 100 members? That's actually low-key a talent xD

I'm so bad at remembering names damn

Not sure how, but at first it was a tiny bit confusing since some members of different groups are also part of the group EXILE. I tried to count the members first ever when there had been 5 groups and I almost doubled them by accidant since all members of EXILE THE SECOND, 3 members of Sandaime J Soul Brothers and 2 of GENERATIONS are also members of EXILE, so about 5 members curent members and 5 former members of EXILE arn't members in other EXILE TRIBE-groups

At first I thought EXILE was EXILE TRIBE's version of NCT U, but than I noticed they added members, lost some members and do not switch the members since the curent members had been added in 2014 (other than that back in 2014 4 members had left the group, the rest of the members who didn't were part of EXILE before got added and in 2021 another member had left EXILE and EXILE THE SECOND)

The only other times I almost got confused was when there had been 3 trainees who never debuted with their groups. One was suposed to debut in FANTASTICS but droped out half a year before their debut in2018 and shortly passed away on cancer. The other 2 were suposed to debut in PSYCHIC FEVER but 1 droped out in 2020 cause he was too sick to stay and the other one was kicked out in 2021 a few months before their debut cause he was a white guy from the US who came to Japan as a weeb, didn't knew any Japanese and even acted racist and so got removed.

But it's also crazy how well I know the group by now. Like I know a lot random facts on the EXILE TRIBE members too.

Here are some examples on the facts I know:

• EXILE TRIBE has as of now 12 groups that are(sorted by debut): EXILE, EXILE THE SECOND, Sandaime J Soul Brothers, GENERATIONS, THE RAMPAGE, FANTASTICS, BALLISTIK BOYZ, LIL LEAGUE, WOLF HOWL HARMONY, THE JET BOY BANGERZ and KID PHENOMENON
• There are also 4 units which are Jr. EXILE (Contains GENERATIONS, THE RAMPAGE, FANTASTICS, BALLISTIK BOYZ and PSYCHIC FEVER), NEO EXILE (LIL LEAGUE, WOLF HOWL HARMONY, THE JET BOY BANGERZ and KID PHENOMENON), MA55IVE THE RAMPAGE (5 members of THE RAMPAGE) and EXILE B HAPPY ( 6 members of different groups under EXILE TRIBE)
• Kokoro of PSYCHIC FEVER is friends with Kazuta from the KPop-group n.siggn
• Keito of FANTASTICS is friends with Shotaro from the KPop-group RIIZE
• Rui from THE RAMPAGE collects ATTEZ-CDs and also has some of them personaly signed (in the way that I think Hongjoong even wrote the name of his group onto the CD when he asked for the autograph in a fan-event some years ago. I mean Rui mentioned he went to see ATEEZ cause he loves them xD)
• Yuta of GENERATIONS taught a dance class in his company's dance academy when he was in high school before his debut with the group and 1 person confirmed to have been his student is Sana from TWICE. Most likly U from ONF too since Sana said she knows U trought dance class.
• There are currently 3 members and 2 former members who have children, 1 of the current members was never married to the mother of his child and they broke up around the time when their son was about 1 year old. Of the others, 1 has 1 child and the other one has 2. Of the ex. members one, who is also the CEO of their company, has 3 children and the other ex. member has 2 stepchildren and 1 own child.
• Many members of EXILE TRIBE also work as actors, of which the majority either acted in gang-style movies or BL-drama.
• Many (not all) members are bilingual or even speak more language. For some it's cause of being mixed or fully foreign (Altho Weesa of PSYCHIC FEVER said he never learned to speak Arabic or any other language spoken in Morroco and he only knew very little Korean despite that he considers Korea his 2nd hime although he never had been to Korea before he had been 18)
• The member who speaks the most languages is Sekai from EXILE and FANTASTICS since he knows Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese and French. I think the 2nd one would be Hokuto from THE RAMPAGE since he speaks Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean.
• Of all the mixed/foreign members, there are 2 half Brazilian boys. Ryusei from BALLISTIK BOYZ and Ghee from WOLF HOWL HARMONY (Just to give an example on the mixed/foreign members)
• The youngest to ever debut under EXILE TRIBE is Sora from LIL LEAGUE, He debuted in 2023 at age 13 a few days before he turned 14.
• The currently oldest member is Kenchi who is 44 years old. The actually oldest if we count former members would be Hiro who is 53 (Hiro btw is the CEO of their company now). And of course, Sora is the youngest with being 14
• Some members did worked a job before their debut. For example Ghee of WOLF HOWL HARMONY used to be a truck driver, Aeron of THE JET BOY BANGERZ used to be an acountant, Hiroomi of Sandaime J Soul Brothers did a 3 year course at a college to become a hairdresser but than decided to never work in that field and used to be a cashier for a convenience store instead, ... etc.
• Hiroomi from Sandaime J Soul Brothers is one of the few members who also works as solo-artist and when he opend up his own company where he currently has himself and a girlgroup signed in, he decided to partner up with Hybe in hope to get the girlgroup promoted more outside of Japan, but he also used this connections to get a song produced by Suga of BTS for himself

I could go on with the facts

Some more things to ad to this list

I absolutely adore these versions of the songs

Babymetal

AKB48 release bops