Time To Rock Your Balls OffS  Japanese pop, rather Jpop, is
pigeonholed as cute, ear saccharine. That might not exactly be
fair. But there's no arguing, sometimes Jpop needs more guitars.
More awesome hair. Sometimes it needs more metal.  Sometimes
Jpop needs more Marty Friedman. Marty Friedman (above, center)
is a great, great guitarist who is perhaps best known for his
ten year tenture in Megadeth, playing on albums like Rust in
Peace and Countdown to Extinction.  While in Megadeth, Friedman
toured Japan throughout the 1990s and fell in love with the pop
of the era, namely Namie Amuro and Ayumi Hamasaki. "In Jpop,
there's a lot of hetauma," Friedman said in a TV interview back
in 2010. "I love hetauma." Hetauma means that something might
look crude or poor at first glance, but it is actually much
deeper.  Friedman became so entranced with Jpop that 90 percent
of the music he was listening to was Japanese pop. After ten
years in Megadeth, he left the band, looking for something
different and saying that Mega