Quote:
Originally Posted by drdolce
I think AKB is a disgrace to J-Pop. Their influence just destroys the whole thing to me. And that they have three songs in the setlist just annoys me and makes me hope that this group will eventually destroy themselves somehow so it will end. I know this sounds cruel but I seriously don't understand why they deserve this success with their awful music. -.-
|
they're what's mainstream in Japan nowadays, in every country we have those genres that's having its moment, selling zillions and taking crowds to concerts, and that doesn't mean it's high quality work, but it's commercial, so that's why they're this huge, also, there's a lot of cultural matters behind their success that we foreigners probably won't understand. Here in Brazil we have "sertanejo", a genre somewhere in the middle of country and pop music that moves millions of money every year, a lot of people hate it, but if I turn the radio on, those sertanejo acts will be playing nearly in every station and in the weekends they're on every TV channel performing. Thing is, the big majority of the country loves it and it makes money, everyone has your own AKB48 in your corner of the world.