tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364435391701649131.post1609307857722051553..comments2023-03-19T15:27:40.464+00:00Comments on いちごご! ★: What I Like (and Dislike) about AKB48.Kleroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01689759444645732933noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364435391701649131.post-88556104080888735472016-07-08T11:09:26.555+01:002016-07-08T11:09:26.555+01:00i really dislike about akb48... they always show t...i really dislike about akb48... they always show their marurity before they ages and also lipsync.. i dunno but jkt48 always lipsyncs and hello project forbid their member to lipsync. most of all i really love hello projectShiina Aozorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06706104244935553572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364435391701649131.post-14894410733807793902016-07-08T11:09:08.107+01:002016-07-08T11:09:08.107+01:00i really dislike about akb48... they always show t...i really dislike about akb48... they always show their marurity before they ages and also lipsync.. i dunno but jkt48 always lipsyncs and hello project forbid their member to lipsync. most of all i really love hello projectShiina Aozorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06706104244935553572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364435391701649131.post-48056278981046451172015-06-17T18:57:56.409+01:002015-06-17T18:57:56.409+01:00im totally agree that akb48 worked really hard i l...im totally agree that akb48 worked really hard i love their song beginner sayonara crawlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08363007014284064608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364435391701649131.post-50737450688171112782013-03-27T22:22:51.191+00:002013-03-27T22:22:51.191+00:00It's about AKB,but why you bashed Hello! Proje...It's about AKB,but why you bashed Hello! Project in here? =_________________=Destyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09579177933493302145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364435391701649131.post-91282250101518761612012-01-06T00:35:57.667+00:002012-01-06T00:35:57.667+00:00Yeah, it's kinda sad that a the girls have to ...Yeah, it's kinda sad that a the girls have to deal with that sort of marketing because I am sure it must make some of them uncomableMelizzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07088395308354445636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364435391701649131.post-44214953139260265472011-07-12T21:24:58.542+01:002011-07-12T21:24:58.542+01:00^ No no don't be sorry! I totally agree! The l...^ No no don't be sorry! I totally agree! The lingerie was one thing but the whole 'fake cumshot' on Tomomi was just....WHAT. Because that's basically what it was. That unsettled me. It's really over-pushing the sex aspect. I LOVED Beginner too. Don't get me wrong I totally love AKB but sometimes they seem to put me off (and I am sure a lot of other female fans too) as they are so blatantly marketed towards pervy dudes.Kleroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01689759444645732933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364435391701649131.post-39805339226811856862011-07-12T07:41:14.020+01:002011-07-12T07:41:14.020+01:00I've enjoyed most of what AKB has released so
...I've enjoyed most of what AKB has released so<br />far, but 'Heavy Rotation' really threw me off. It was just...too much. It's creepy hearing that cheerful innocent sounding song, and then mixing it with images of young girls in really suggestive lingerie. It's not even subtle, just in your face borderline soft core lesbian porn. O__O It surprises me that this sort of thing is accepted in Japan as normal, but it's all over the place. All I can say is that if they showed this in the US there would be so much backlash and media attention surrounding it. It's sad but it obviously is a huge selling aspect, just wish they tried doing it with a bit more class? There doesn't seem a lot out-spoken feminists in Japan either :/ It's interesting though because I've heard that they have a lot of female fans.<br /><br />On the other hand I really love 'Beginner' The original PV is really epic and is the main reason I started getting into them. I just love when idol groups do songs/pv's that are really different and out of the blue :D It's such a huge contrast to Heavy Rotation, because it's a very empowering song and the PV really shows that as well. I'll be disappointed if they REALLY push the sexual/pedo image, otherwise I like what they are putting out with their music & creative videos.<br /><br />I'm kind of glad that they are outselling H!P. They have been playing it safe for so long now, making low budget pvs using the same stupid formula in almost everything they do. I find that the people behind AKB are always coming up with new ideas and putting money an effort into the whole project. I eventually stopped buying albums and singles by Morning Musume because I simply can't support anything that is half assed and mass produced. Even the music seems predictable and rushed nowadays. During the golden era there were so many unique groups, and the pv's were always original and fresh, which is what got me hooked in the first place. The girls seemed to have more chemistry and personality as well. I think that era ended when they added Koharu Kusumi. I really liked JunJun & LinLin but they ended up becoming background dancers/singers. They seem to be wasting talent and then putting the not-so-talented girls like Koharu in the spotlight :P They need to pick some interesting girls this year if they want to have that same magic during the 'Love Machine' era, it's been so long since they sold a million copies! <br /><br />I hope they try taking notes from AKB or try going back to their original roots, but again, UFA likes to play it safe and cater mainly to the loyal wota fan base >_< It's a shame because the current girls have a lot of potential to be really successful! Tsunku is still writing good songs, but the promotional aspect is really weak and gimmicky. I agree that this is AKB's golden era, H!P used have the same creativity back in the day.<br /><br />Wow I really went on a long ramble there! Sorry! XDMiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14020382052852621149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364435391701649131.post-28425135097592098682011-07-11T00:42:17.781+01:002011-07-11T00:42:17.781+01:00Gosh, search for it and then don’t change it:
htt...Gosh, search for it and then don’t change it:<br /><br />http://www.kiwi-musume.com/lyrics/Momusu/3rd%20~Love%20Paradise~/lovemachine.html<br /><br />I don’t know, I suppose this is a serious conversation and around here is 1:00 AM, but “I bet it is very much encouraged though”.<br /><br />When the girls were told how the “Heavy Rotation” PV was going to be, they were against it because that wasn’t the image that they wanted to project about themselves. The obvious question would be then: what image if they already have that one? But their gravure shoots are mainly for promotion, there is a extense market in men magazines, and again their shoots are usually quite tame with the rest of the magazine. The latest Young Animal has Maeda Atsuko on the cover, disguised as her character on the dorama. Then there is Serina from SDN48, who was already a gravure model before joining the group, with some more explicit. And then there are a shoot with Yuuri Morishita and Nana Nanaumi, with the last one entirely naked and including shoots were the camera man is shooting her from the space between her open legs. Latest Weekly Playboy: Not Yet on cover, they do some bikini shoots (as in wearing bikinis), then you skip some pages and you get Kawamura Yukie almost naked, Shinozaki Ai doing sideboobs shoots and then Yoshii Rei naked. They have done almost since the beginning shoots for girls magazines (both Tomomis, Mariko, Haruna is right now a model for one of them) but you hardly will see those, because people tend to focus on the most “spectacular” ones. The good thing about that filtering is that you also wouldn’t see other magazines specialized on shooting idol crotches on live shows (Momoiro Clover, H!P or AKB; it’s the same). There are specialized magazines (say TV, radio or music ones, and they also shoot for them…). I don’t know, but I see Ai-chan, Mano and other girls popping on those magazines with pictures from their PBs, and they usually are also bikini shoots. Again, they are doing promotion, they are tarentos, they are idols, nobody take them as serious people.<br /><br />The other thing is that they would sing songs about sex, but again, they are performers, is not them.anhhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01425644624904368276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364435391701649131.post-49269598787693751462011-07-10T23:56:44.536+01:002011-07-10T23:56:44.536+01:00^ Do you mean Love Revolution? That wasn't rea...^ Do you mean Love Revolution? That wasn't really overtly sexual. They aren't forced to do gravure? Surprising. I bet it is very much encouraged though. >.>Kleroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01689759444645732933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364435391701649131.post-64065021550165901662011-07-10T23:42:34.441+01:002011-07-10T23:42:34.441+01:00One thing I will never understand: if a lyric talk...One thing I will never understand: if a lyric talks about sex it always implies that is a song to lure their fans? I remember quite a lot of songs in AKB that talk about sex and is not sex as fantasy but escapism from (a grim) reality, and not even good at it.<br /><br />But even so, there are things (no underage girls sings “Innocence” on SKE48), people are not forced to do gravure if is not the image they are looking for, etc. But let’s say, how is that different from the new generation of Morning Musume girls singing “Love Generation”?anhhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01425644624904368276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364435391701649131.post-3977161942671247762011-07-10T23:14:27.494+01:002011-07-10T23:14:27.494+01:00^ Yep yep yep. I don't know what Japan's o...^ Yep yep yep. I don't know what Japan's obsession with innocent, virginal, pure, untouched girls is. It's weird and creepy. They had a song very early on called 'Virgin Love' which was a bit..>.> <br /><br />What worries me is the fact that just out of statistics, some of these girls would be too naive to actually understand what was going on. The older members who joined in their late teens probably do and can't be fooled, but some of the younger ones have probably been quite sheltered.Kleroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01689759444645732933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364435391701649131.post-89536822454720965562011-07-10T22:51:50.588+01:002011-07-10T22:51:50.588+01:00I dislike about AKB how the thousands of hours of ...I dislike about AKB how the thousands of hours of fun I have hearing their songs, watching them perform or doing tons of things (from TV shows to write their thoughts multiple times a day) gets reduced to this slut-shamming, or that is a show for salarymen to see teenagers’ underwear, or that the last senbatsu election was like what women do on nightclubs to attract clients (except that nobody seems to be able to explain why they do that metaphor if it doesn’t have anything to do with it) or that they are just treated as (silent) “objects of lust” while not asking them, their fans or the people that design their image their opinions about it. How everything that could be empowering about them (be it little or not) gets reduced to the same stereotypes, the same bullshit and the same thing as always.<br /><br />For me it is something strange, as if people that have heard so many strange things about Japan are trying to project everything over them as if it was the ultimate thing. Sexuality? Have people ever watched the latest Sowelu PV, or Maki Goto, or Koda Kumi, or Idoling!!! or Sexy All Sisters or Ebisu Muscats (that are already pornstars)? Why people should conform to that in a country with so much pornography and erotism? Lolicon? And they use women on their 20s on underwear instead of TGS doing a visual crescendo about showing their asses on “Love Like Candy Floss” (or for that matter, Sweets). Or for that matter, one of the first idols in Japan (Momoe Yamaguchi), on the 70s being 13 years old singing about the “age of consent” or “forbidden pleasure”.anhhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01425644624904368276noreply@blogger.com