indescribable intensity

Sitting here again with my macbook opposite the blaring television playing the best karaoke hits on J-MTV, i finally have decided on a good description of popular Japanese television: "indescribably intense." The particular music video playing was a song called "otoko no michi" (the road to man), and featured a group of five or six singing young men standing in a half-circle and marching obnoxiously as rays of solid colors and various onomatopoeic three-letter words shot out from behind them like a wave of missiles. Also featured were clips of each individual singer singing and marching with a signature crazed face. I guess if i bothered to listen to the words, i might have been able to catch some meaning behind this song, but i was too mesmerized by all the action that i forgot to concentrate on anything in particular. And this is exactly why indescribably intense media is so dangerous: it drains you of any awareness you once had. And i am certainly not proposing this is a unique phenomenon to Japan. But here, it seems that popular media is expected to be frantic, relentless, and memorable (although in indecipherable fragments that encourage rampant consumption of items featuring these very images).
This is also surely not a ubiquitous feature of all Japanese culture. But after visiting Shibuya and Akihabara, an American is left with the impression that Tokyo is all about in-your-face and borderline hostile advertisement, unchecked consumption, and outrageous flare. Not for me. But there is much to appreciate besides all this. There are many sides to Tokyo, as one would imagine. More on this later.