Beholden to Oriental Asia media

If you're from some part of East or Southeast Asia other than Japan, like China, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, or the Philippines- you are beholden more to Japanese media (another country from your continent) or American and European media (from totally different continents).

Why do I ask? I was just reading a couple hours earlier about Kindred of the East: Killing Streets, so this could be yet another case of Hivemind.

In Singapore there's a mix of Taiwanese and Korean/ Japanese influences - mostly gameshows from the former, and TV drama series from the latter. But there are also influences from everywhere.

Mainland China frowns deeply on Japanese content, making the local otaku culture underground and an even more shameful thing to be, but they have no qualms about Korean media or Hong Kong media, each one respectively sucking japanese and american media. The Taiwanese can't get enough of Japanese Korean and American shit, but Filipino is not even mentionned

Hong Kong is.. special. One could say they have their own culture now and can sustain their own media needs, but they fill the gaps with American/ UK international media/ culture and sometimes chinese media. They're not big on Japan or Korea. The Philippines again, are considered like everything non-chinese, non korean and non japanese as shit-tier asia. Then again, Hong Kong is small as fuck.

From what I've seen in the Indonesia, the people like Chinese/ Japanese/ Korean stuff. South American sitcoms or Telenovela and US media is becoming rarer on local broadcast. They speak little English there, and look nothing like gooks.

Lady Gaga is objectively uninteresting

The thing about music is that - as with any artistic expression - there are levels to it. It's possible for expression to be sophisticated or original or to deal with more significant ideas, or express them in a more poetic way. Yes, these measures are subjective to an extent, but there's objective elements to them too.

Things like Lady Ga Ga aren't just about music, they're dependent on image and fashion too. Bands like radiohead tend to create fashion as a consequence; their music is significant and therefore things they do become fashionable. Lady GaGa works the other way as much as anything; her style and presence in the cultural consciousness dictates that attention is paid to her music.

Also you can see that what she produces is less an artistic expression than a corporate effort; extra songwriters, producers, management. It's not a pure expression. Plus whilst the hooks may be appealing, the structure of the music is easily derived back to various sources of inspiration. Radiohead, on the other hand deal with a diverse set of novel influences and ideas. They are as inflential as they are influenced.