honestly, YES!
The thing I dislike about the the whole japanese entertainment scene are the pre-teen girls pandering to old pervs, and how acceptable in J-pop/entertainment it is
I'm not denying that Tsunku isn't a talented pop-producers, I've liked some of his work with non-H!P artists and two H!P songs ("Sugisugite Baka Mitai" & "Some Boys! Touch"), but the whole H!P is exploiting the poor girls. the girls don't make that much money & are subjected to all sorts of rules.
H!P girls themselves have questionable talent (only a few of them I could call talented) and the whole stylistic direction of the whole H!P is really fug. with their gaudy & ridicilous costumes they look like they're stuck in the 90s.
tho fortunately I don't think H!P has that much of a effect on anything these days, seems like they're slipping further away from the mainstream each passing year. finally
