Posts by pravda

Quote from Pinky_Peachy

I kind of feel icky with the whole part of industry. SO many young girls who have to do bikini shots as minors and some of them even nude shots as soon as they tern 18 for their photobooks and gravure, how many of them end up in adult entertainment or come out to say they were abused during their time in their groups and just... this isn't the worst thing I've heard but I feel sad for her. I looked her up and first thing I saw were her highly sexualized photobooks.

That has disappeared at least in the 48 groups and was never part of the 46 groups, Equal groups thankfully or other top to near top of the line GGs. It stopped about 5 years ago where the girls were encouraged to do the Gravure shots in the 48 series like AKB48, HKT48 etc... Also nudes were never allowed while they were part of the main groups. As far as I know one definitely went into Porn from the 48 series groups and I think two more may have from the 48 groups. So things have cleaned themselves out among the big sellers very much. Even the MV's have changed from about that time with instead of Bikini MV's they are clothed "normally". So for the modern member of those groups it is nothing like it was "back in the day".

For the small time groups there is probably a lot more that do or feel they do need to those kind of photo-ops. There are lots and lots of groups that never really get much traction outside of a very small number of fans and are no were near the size of BiSH, or AKB48, =Love, etc...

Quote from tetetete

Why is the show on weekdays

These Dome is pretty packed and probably impacted by others using the Arena. For example, NiziU is using it Dec 17 and 18th. Justin Bieber used a week ago on the weekend and I think Seventeen used it this past weekend. Don't know who is using it this weekend though for the 26th and 27th. MAMA probably booked it late.

Quote from JiminieKookie

Saw a random Tweet where someone posted the apparently "top 5 most popular KPop artists on Twitter"

OK OK Jungkook and RM are KPop

But why the fuck are Keigo and Shosei of the JPop-group JO1 and Ryoki of the JPop group BE:FIRST on the list. Like what the heck !?!? Thats not KPop my dude

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Any top 5 (CJKT...)POP people without Miku, Saiki, Akane, Kanami, AND Misa just doesn't make sense to me.

Quote from Disevidence

Did they write the raps themselves?

Does anyone have a link to where that's specifically stated, from an official source?

Unknown. If you go to the youtube video's and click on more info you will see that the 4 girls are listed as "Performed by" then they give "Original Track" that goes to someone else. That Original Track is really for the music I think but could also include lyrics. None of the other data gives credit to the girls other than "Performed". That's not definitive though and isn't proof that they didn't write it but just hints that they didn't. They would have had to put a "Lyrics by" statement which they didn't. Couldn't find anything else.

Quote from glowello

the are actually under a company that is joint with YG

That was debunked ages ago. YG has no affiliation with XG or XGLAX. Just similar names. XG is under Avex a Japanese company. Both companies have denied any connection with each other. In fact the president of XGALX the company that controls XG actually even stated that XG isn't even a KPOP group but just a POP group that debuted on Korean shows because they have a more international platform. Just google it as there are plenty of reporting that denied involvement.

Quote from DMV2DMZ

Some of YGE's acclaim is the level US Hip-Hop/Rap influence in their music and styling. So I understand that viewpoint. Of course they aren't going to "go in" as hard as US lady rappers.

It could work out in XG's favor though in Japan. I don't know any "J-based" girl groups with the same level of influence in their music.

Not sure why you are bringing YGE into this as they have zero affiliation with them.

No

Quote from citron-icy

Maybe the rainbow is for Girls Generation ?

VERY DOUBTFULL

It's 99.999% NiziU.

NiziU is an anagram for Niju=Rainbow in Japanese and their latest single was a song called Clap-Clap.

I think everyone here just got trolled by JYPE. They officially announced a release data of 11/30/2022

Now THAT is an arrival.

Isn't this pre-mature with one day left?

There are 3 more GG's to go.

It was pretty impressive that they did this without even a backing vocal track.

1. POP

2. Talk that Talk

3. Clap Clap

4. Sneakers

5. Dice

6. Asobo

7. Blah Blah Blah

8. O.O

9. Celebrate

Quote from desdesdes

More than 48 groups?

48 Groups are a shadow of their popularity in Japan. The top groups are now the 46 groups which were a sister type group made by the same guy who made the 48 groups. But really the consistently top Japanese group is Perfume. AKB48 was top maybe 10 years ago but not in the last 4 or 5.

Also I think they are only talking about KPOP groups and excluding Japanese groups.

Someone is seriously on some major meds to think this.

Quote from laleria

I think no GGs can sell out Tokyo Dome yet. Streaming and touring is a little bit different thinh after all.

Closer to Tokyo Dome right now, from my perspective, are TXT and Enhypen

Well I could see NiziU from JYPE doing it. Yes I know they aren't exactly KPOP but since they are starting to do KCONs and I'd be surprised if they weren't invited to MAMA 2022 they might count. For BG with KPOP styles I ca see JO1 from CJE&M. The other Japanese groups with KPOP ish type of singing and dancing INI and BE:First I don't think have the discographies to really put on a full 2.5+ hour performance that this kind of venue would dictate. Both NiziU and JO1 have multiple Platinum sellers and they are CJE&M and JYPE groups.

It was a big shift in crowds. Fukuoka was only 4K but Hokkaido was 10K. It was a decent sized jump.

Awesome. Full group doing this. Love it.

I'm not really into her music that much. Though Japan for sure is and getting the One Piece gig is a tremendous thing for her. She is very very good though at her style of singing for sure.

It would depend. If you just gave the rank but nothing else then yes I'd say your biased. "Trust me" is not a reliable methodology.

Now if you gave source material, how you weigh that material into a precise number for each metric, how you then added each into an equation and what that equation was that can all be verified by other people if they wish and come up with the EXACT same number. Time stamp it so that it can be historically verified. Then no I wouldn't say you were biased. This is a LOT of work and why that one man side show of here is my calculations is ridiculous because none it is shown. They just post some random numbers and say here.