I don't know if I buy this article's conclusions. Honestly it reads too much like Freakonomics: Japan Edition, where the author sees two events and draws a conclusion based on a tenuous correlation.
I mean, this exact same argument was used to explain the recent idol group boom on the basis that it was "nostalgia" for the economic boom/bubble economy of the 1980s. I dunno if anyone in Japan is really nostalgic for the economy of the 1990s, where the first half was the bubble popping and the fallout thereafter, and the later had the Asian crisis further slowing things down.
Also, there has never really been a time when there wasn't something that was "like X, but with Y" and where nostalgia wasn't at least a part of the marketing. It certainly isn't a recent phenomenon.
I dunno if I'm making my points well enough, it's 4 am right now and I really should go to bed. heh.
In case of Japan I kinda find some of the '90's nostalgia' really annoying. I'd rather not see any more of these weird 90's hairstyles on either men or women (especially not those fugly thick hairbands school girls still seem to care so much for) or 90's fashion in general. (*cough*Hosts*cough*) And omg music, why is there still so much 90's style music in the charts, it's driving me up the wall. That high tempo/techno stuff is just not bearable anymore. I think Japan really needs to move forward, there's no need to cling to past successes that won't come back. They need to attract people with new stuff, not the old stuff repackaged. *sigh* Maybe I'm alone in thinking that way though, who knows :)
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Ur icon + username + comment combo is the epitome of the 2005 "weaboo"
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I mean, this exact same argument was used to explain the recent idol group boom on the basis that it was "nostalgia" for the economic boom/bubble economy of the 1980s. I dunno if anyone in Japan is really nostalgic for the economy of the 1990s, where the first half was the bubble popping and the fallout thereafter, and the later had the Asian crisis further slowing things down.
Also, there has never really been a time when there wasn't something that was "like X, but with Y" and where nostalgia wasn't at least a part of the marketing. It certainly isn't a recent phenomenon.
I dunno if I'm making my points well enough, it's 4 am right now and I really should go to bed. heh.
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I'm sorry, what? LOL
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And omg music, why is there still so much 90's style music in the charts, it's driving me up the wall. That high tempo/techno stuff is just not bearable anymore.
I think Japan really needs to move forward, there's no need to cling to past successes that won't come back. They need to attract people with new stuff, not the old stuff repackaged. *sigh* Maybe I'm alone in thinking that way though, who knows :)
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I need a sidestory or something
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