How would you classify Nana's genre in the west?

[Unchain_Knight]

It's easy to just lump Nana in under the term "J-Pop" or even "Anisong" when talking among fans of asian music, but if you were to actually give her music a musical genre what would it be? I find I have this issue when describing her music to my friends who aren't into asian music at all and have a very defined idea of "pop" that Nana would not fin into.

I am so bad with these lol. Would you say she's symphonic-rock, symphonic-pop, orchestral-pop? I don't want to call her just a pop or rock artist because those terms have a particular image in the west (pop = Lady Gaga, rock = Queen, pop-rock = ? avril lavigne?). So how would you go about putting it?

[relmy]

I think anisong is a genre that doesn't really have an equal in western music so I have no idea how I would describe her to somebody who doesn't listen to Asian music.

I don't think I'd class her as symphonic rock at all, she uses orchestras but she definitely isn't rock. If you said Japanese symphonic rock singer to somebody they'd probably think more visual kei than Nana.

Whenever I've been in this situation I've just said that her genre doesn't really exist in Western music, that Anison is a bit of a hybrid genre that uses rock, pop, ballad etc... elements but never strays too much from a set formula of having to be grand, epic, or cool.

[amelala]

i think describe to people who dont listen to J-pop would be hard, because i got a friend who like K-pop tense to think Japanese song are very "ki ki" (high pitch sound), meaning sound very cutey

but i told them some are and some are not

for Nana's, mostly string orchestras in her music, mostly i hear violins XD that why some of her concert got grp of Violines (other than LIVE GRACE)

n like wat relmy said her's is like hybrid genre (which is use in Anison music)

[sevenpetals]

Hmm... I like to think of most of her Rock songs as Pop-Rock songs, so maybe Symphonic Pop-Rock?

I do note that anisong is a majorly hybridized genre though.

I mean some of her songs are even techno, or dance music, and some are generic just j-pop, some are more rock than pop, some are ballad (thoughyou can have any genre of ballad)

For the most part though, Symphonic Pop-Rock sounds like a good go for me, though some people in the west barely know what Pop-Rock it is despite the name.


So yeah! I would say Symphonic Pop-Rock for the most part, with some stuff on the side if i had to explain the diversity of Anisong (and really J-pop in general is pretty diverse)

[gunsmithcat]

I wouldn't put her into any genre at all. Her musical styles are so vast, its nearly impossible to fit for just one genre. If anything, its popular music in the best sense.

[amelala]

anyway Nana wants to do new things for her music, that why her new single/album got some surprise, like we never hear before in her music XD