115 Challenge

I've said this many times, but I'm a firm believer in popular music.

I belong to the camp that considers music that wins people's popularity and gets streamed a lot to be great music.

Because I make popular music myself and crave the public's attention.

But that doesn't mean I think genres other than popular music are inferior.

Each genre has its own appeal, and in the end, even popular music can be considered a kind of subgenre that takes those appeals and blends them into itself.

In that respect, I'm fairly close to jazz as a genre.

Well, I don't write songs centered on jazz melodies, but I do sometimes look up stage performances on YouTube.

Personally, I think jazz's charm lies in how the same music can sound like a radically different song depending on the performer's individual style.

“So you mean you liked it? Or what?”

“I mean I liked it. Hearing it live has a different flavor.”...