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Originally Posted by aroomwithaview  the music game bandwagon in the united states has hit its apex and is declining and iidx has a bunch of music which nobody hears on the radio which therefore means they dont like it |
There are tons of musical movements in the US that don't coincide with typical pop/rap/rock that gets played on the radio. The clencher is that a lot of the music fits into genres that just aren't popular in GENERAL over here. Electronic music hasn't been embraced in the United States in the same way that it has in Asia and parts of Europe.
The fact that the IIDX import rate is still pretty high shows that there are those of us that HAVE embraced it, but it's just how our society's musical tastes developed. A lot of people that that took interest in IIDX are already interested in some aspect of Asian culture, so it's a lot more natural of a transition than people who just don't pay attention to things that happen outside of the US.
I guess what I'm trying to say is don't blame the radio stations, blame the culture itself :B