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INTEREST: New Idol Group Offers Chance to Take Hot Spring Trip with Them


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Hoppy800



Joined: 09 Aug 2013
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PostPosted: Sun May 17, 2015 10:05 am Reply with quote
Hameyadea wrote:
ANN wrote:
  • 1 coupon: A ticket to a meet 'n' greet event
  • 5 coupons: A picture with the group at the meet 'n' greet event
  • 10 coupons: A movie message "just for you"
  • 30 coupons: A karaoke session with other fans
  • 50 coupons: A letter "just for you"
  • 75 coupons: A week's worth of wake-up calls
  • 100 coupons: A photography session "just for you," with homemade cookies
  • 150 coupons: An hour-long phone call
  • 300 coupons: A lunch for two, with ear-cleaning included (Note: this is considered intensely romantic in Japan)
  • 500 coupons: A dinner for two, with ear-cleaning and a visit to a photo sticker booth included
  • 1000 coupons: A day-long date, perhaps with fireworks
  • 2000 coupons: A trip to a hot springs (although mixed bathing is out of the question)


No, no, no. Using advertisements and signing events is one thing: ads run in the "social background", as it were; on billboards, in the radio, etc. Signing events are "go in, get an autograph, maybe a handshake and/or a picture, and you're out".

This, however, is investing time (both work- and personal-) on one or two people who repeatedly purchased the same product multiple times. It is basically the artists selling themselves to promote their music, instead of selling their music to promote themselves.


This is the future of idols AKB's manager was speaking about in an article a few years back. All marketability and little to no talent, they'll have to sell themselves even to the point of their bodies to get ahead instead of selling their music to get ahead. It's sad, that it has to come to this low point.
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Ceewayne



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PostPosted: Sun May 17, 2015 10:18 am Reply with quote
Are they good at making cookies?
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Brutannica



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PostPosted: Sun May 17, 2015 6:49 pm Reply with quote
partially wrote:

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30 coupons: A karaoke session with other fans


What the heck, you don't even need to get any coupons to do this?


Sorry, I should've made that more clear. It's a karaoke session with other fans and the group.
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DTJB



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PostPosted: Mon May 18, 2015 12:18 am Reply with quote
Trying to cash in on that Babymetal craze.
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Ginsan



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PostPosted: Mon May 18, 2015 12:27 am Reply with quote
I do question if they even like singing/dancing, or they're just whoring for fame. They don't even look that good. -.-

This is why people think that society keeps falling lower over the years.
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aS_Umi



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PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2015 5:25 pm Reply with quote
There's been a lot of this "charting or disbanding" ultimatums in music lately - it's just how like the music industry has been the last 20 years or so, just now they're telling it to your face. No one spends any time or money developing talent anymore.

These poor girls! They're locked in contracts - even if they didn't want to do this hot spring thing they're contractually obligated to go by their label. Idol-dom is so sad.
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