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Originally Posted by Trinu
Ayu had ir hard? Ayu had to go to the street at night and hand around flyers to see them tossed on the floor? Ayu was called the "panty-showing show"? Ayu had to combine the ordinary life of a high-schooler and the idol one even if nobody went to see you perform?
C'mon, compared to the first gens of AKB, Ayu had everything handed over to her when she was discovered at karaoke.
I love Ayu too, but I don't like how people talk about AKB as a "group of lolitas prancing around with fake smiles". It shows how little attention some people have put to them and how much they want to criticize for the sake of it.
So I'm just gonna leave a couple of their lyrics here so you can read them...
http://stage48.net/studio48/mokugekisha.html
http://stage48.net/studio48/yumenokane.html
http://stage48.net/studio48/imcrying.html
http://stage48.net/studio48/inochinotsukaimichi.html
http://stage48.net/studio48/suifuwaa...umewomiru.html
http://stage48.net/studio48/inochinoimi.html
... and now say "They're just a bunch of girls in bikinis singing non-sense".
Also, the AKB system is designed to stay relevant for years to come. Some wotas might graduate the fandom, but others will come and there will always be people who'll buy the singles to shake their favourite's hands.
And seeing how well received the new gens are, you can expect other 8 years of AKB topping the charts (and opening the Tokyo Olympics, if everything goes well). |
Of course I'm sure some members had their difficulties....and had shit pretty hard. Even if some things don't seem that bad to me, like flyers, as I've been in that situation, I know it sucks and it's discouraging, especially if a lot of things depend on support and success. And not everyone handles it well. Problems are relative so if someone says they had it hard, I go with it.
But are you really trying to say that ayu had it easy in comparison because she doesn't fit in a few examples from completely different people? It's interesting how at least we know those things about akb and can feel bad about it but how much does everyone really really know about ayus beginnings. Fyi, she had a career before avex. I'm sure you know that. There were iffy things that went on in her idol days. She also dropped out of high school, something some people have criticized her for. Lord knows what went on in those days. And even her early a ex days. Like, before her peak. But she has a success story, all the same. It's not a battle of who had it hardest. And you act as if ayu was never critiqued for anything because she was so loved. Not everyone approved of her image when she went topless and what not. And then god knows before she was really popular. Ijs, different people can have different difficult experiences, a lot of which, you may never know.
And it's not like ayu did no work at all to become a singer in the first place. She got lucky and got discovered by the right person. Sorry to the people who train their whole lives. At the end of the day, when something is critiqued about her package, it falls on her image, not just her and the team together. Being a solo musician with expectations from the label and the public isn't something everyone wants to or could handle.