will.i.am, Nicki Minaj - Check It Out

This music viedo by Nicki Minaj and Will.i.am is their tribute to J-Pop
it features hangeul (Korean writing) and the inroduction is spoken in Korean.
The artists are dressed as anime and manga ( Japanese animation and comic book ) characters would.

far eastern pop influences on western pop

Although this type of music will have more of a niche market in the UK oriental pop has an increasing fan base in London and USA with major artists such as Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry sporting Japanese pop music fashion such as Harajuku

Katy Perry (image 1) shown in traditional Japanese dress and Nicky Minaj (image 2) in Harajuku style both sporting the anime and J-Pop hairstyles

方大同《自以為》MV

This is a music video of a Mandopop artist which I like. He is a Hong Kong based singer called Khalil Fong; he usually sings soul music but has teamed up with fellow artist Jia Ying and made this Chinese pop song ‘zi yi wei’

"Tokyo is trending: the rise of J-Pop"

I recently read an article in the Evening Standard on J-Pop and other oriental countries pop music is becoming popular in London titled 'Tokyo is trending: the rise of J-Pop'. This is the link to the online article: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-24030002-tokyo-is-trending.do

magazine music genre

I have thought about basing my music magazine on far eastern music; mainly Japanese J-POP, Korean K-POP and Chinese C-POP and Mando-POP music. I have an interest in this music and know people who do too. I feel by creating a magazine on oriental pop music will be certainly filling a gap in the British music magazine market.

music magzine title reasearch

I have found creating a unique and well though through magazine title can be difficult so here I have done research in to the connotations of some music magazines titles.

Kerrang’s title derives from the sound which an electric guitar makes when a power chord is played. this clearly links to the magazines theme of rock music as the electric guitar is usually associated with rock music. in my opinion the exclamation mark used at the end of the word represents rock music's loudness also coinciding with the cracked effect used on the text.

Despite pop music magazine Q's simplistic and almost mysterious title the single letter has a meaningful reason of being today. originally the magazine was to be named 'Cue' as in to cue a record to play but to avoid the confusion of it being a snooker magazine the title was stylised into 'Q'. I found this story useful of what I should avoid such as title which connote something different to what my magazine is promoting.

Billboard contents page



This contents page is from Billboard music magazine, Billboards contents pages have a unique aspect in that they include the music charts in the left hand side of the page, almost acting as a margin. The contents page is quite simplistic in that the background is white and main text being black leaving the light blue headings as the only colour. The white background commonly in Billboard magazine features an artist behind the text. Billboard continues to use the bold sans serif font but the title 'contents' and of the charts is a stylised version. Overall in my opinion the page is too boxed an plain and should further attract readers to pages than simply featured artists images with the page number.