Your Favourite Western Artists

[relmy]

Not technically the right forum, but I thought it was better here than everyday discussion.

Who are your favourite Western singers? Or singers from Asia who aren't Japanese or Korean (as they get talked about a lot!).

I always like knowing what Western music Nana fans listen too, it tends to be right across the spectrum of music.

[noknuckles]

Mozart, My Little Pony and Capcom music. Yes, I know the 4 (Nana included) have nothing to do with one another and are completely different, but that's what I listen to

As I write this, I realize Capcom is Japanese, but it's not Jpop, so it counts under "Western/non-Jpop"

[meikyuutie]

rite now, ONE DIRECTION!!!!! <3 <3 but so many others lol... britbrit, christina grimmie, katy perry, casCada, n more ^^ i guess i like lots of radio hit singers XD

[teddy]

uhhh t.A.T.u.?
That's it really all the rest are Asian xD

[haksaw]

MANOWAR!
Rejoice brothers and sisters! They released a new album less than a week ago and almost on my birthday! Though I'm with the guys who was like " wtf was that? " and are waiting for a CD version, but still =)

As for others early Metallica and Rammstein are nice, Blind Guardian and Sabaton are nice all the way ^_^

As for something closer to pop... Hmm... I can tolerate some pop singers by not wanting to kill them with rusty axe in the name of great justice... But that's it ;D

uhhh t.A.T.u.?

Are they still around?

[relmy]

Jun 20, 2012 16:57:30 GMT -4 noknuckles said:

Mozart, My Little Pony and Capcom music. Yes, I know the 4 (Nana included) have nothing to do with one another and are completely different, but that's what I listen to

As I write this, I realize Capcom is Japanese, but it's not Jpop, so it counts under "Western/non-Jpop"

I'll edit it, I meant NO Japanese/Korean artists. I just lumped it all as Jpop/Kpop. I wanted to leave it open to other artists from the rest of Asia though (because we don't talk about them) hence why I didn't say "no Asian artists".

And yup, it seems even though we all like Nana, everybody's taste is totally different for Western music.

[haksaw]

even though we all like Nana, everybody's taste is totally different for Western music.

There's no wonder since even our tastes for Nana's music differ pretty much ;D

[replaymachine]

I don't really have a favorite "favorite" artist. I usually like songs but don't really care about the artist^^;; Though, if I were to name a few:

Spice Girls and BSB - These two are like my ultimate girl/boy band of all time. To hell with being cheesy but I grew up listening to these two and I still like them XDD

Some others include the popular ones like Lifehouse, Linkin Park, Metallica, and The Script.

[noknuckles]

Mwahaha, Backstreet Boys. Not that I like to listen to them, but they are the absolute best to sing at karaoke. Like... karaoke is normally really boring as people just sing songs they like. Then I go up and sing some BSB and all of a sudden everyone starts having fun with things like Spice Girls, N Sync, Brittney Spears etc...

I guess part of it is that I'm normally a pretty quiet guy and they don't expect it when I show them my godly karaoke skills

[hot0rikun967]

Let's see...I grew up with Janet Jackson, and so I will say that I still listen to her occasionally. Haha. If I wanted to, I could listen to Lady Gaga, and I know I would enjoy her. I just haven't found the time to fit her into my listening time. But, primarily, since her untimely death I have been exposed to Whitney Houston. She has quickly become my favorite Western artist (and one of my favorite artists overall), and after a few listens of her songs I couldn't help but go out and buy every single one of her albums. I just wish I could have supported her while she was still alive. For that, I'm truly saddened.

[Nia]

Thanks to this very forum, I have now developed a love of Lana Del Rey. I don't care if she's fake or a liar or whatever because her music is flipping awesome. For a long time I've been a fan of Arcade Fire (I even bought physical copies of two of their albums). I also love the Clash, Metric, the Cardigans, Gorillaz, Garbage, and just recently I've been getting into Purity Ring! I guess I don't really have a favorite... more like a bunch of artists I really like!

[relmy]

More Lana love ♥ I like her image, I think it's an intentional persona created as a comment on pop culture. Another Metric fan too! I discovered their music last year (I think) and I loved it. I like Gorrilaz too.

And noknuckles, I agree with you on the karaoke music. Britney, N'Sync... they're all on mine and my flatmates' pre-drinking playlists

[suomi2015]

Ok..From my childhood I prefered to listen foreign songs and most of them were 70's-80's pop-singers or even older (e.g. Frank Sinatra). There were some #1 singers for me before Nana: Sandra (she was in Arabesque trio, after began solo career), Tarja Turunen (solo&w/Nightwish. yes, in that order). There were singers on #2,#3 etc. places, for example ABBA, Tatu, Within Temptation, Rammstein..a lot to mention all of them.
So I could enjoy all quality music, except electronic, techno, club rythmes etc.
As I remember, one night I and my friends after some Clannad episodes found Lady Gaga's Bad Romance on youtube and watched it for a dozen times)) Bad romance was even as alarm for a while))