Top 1,000 Worst J-Pop Bands (Notes from Under the Tatami Mats–63 … My Adventures in Japan)

I don’t wanna promote any of the banal crap. Or torture you with it.

Like banal and clichéd pop bands everywhere, these Japanese boy bands were so embarrassingly awful that they were almost interesting.

Well, "almost interesting" in very minor doses, that is.   _{(Image source)}

Gaga? Gag!

But inevitably, their fans loved them. And they had large and incomprehensibly broad fan bases.

In fact, one of my colleagues – a mature, 20-something, foreign-educated, English-speaking woman – was gaga over the horribly untalented boy-group SMAP. I could never figure out why.      _{(Image source)}

I was gonna include some links to songs by the above bands. But I do not wanna promote any of it. Nor do I wanna subject you to the torture of hearing the banal crap.

(And as you can see, I even refused to include any images of those pop stars. You're welcome.)

   Introduction to – “Notes from Under the Tatami Mats”  _{(right-click on title)}

Top 5 Pop Artists

Top 5 Pop Songs

Top 4 Over-Sung, Over-Rated, and Over-Rotated (in Japan) '70s Pop Songs

... and more

Links to my Other Series …

      Introduction – "Intro to Vocab-ability"   _{(right-click on title)}
      Guide – "Guide to Entries"   _{(right-click on title)}
      Index– "Index" to all Chapters and Sections   _{(right-click on title)}

      Lou Reed – "Anthology of Memorable Lyrics, Part 1"   _{(right-click on title)}
      Lou Reed – "Anthology of Memorable Lyrics, Part 2"   _{(right-click on title)}

_{Images sourced from Google Images, unless otherwise indicated or unless my own.}