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Originally Posted by thinkingoutloud89
That's a logic that does not apply to japanese idols by any means. SMAP did only bad songs with the worst vocals ever. The production quality of AKB48 is also horrible. The appeal lies soley within the idols themselves - they could sell trash if they wanted to.
edit: I'm listening to AKB48, but at least I know it's all bad. It's a guilty pleasure. But people who say EXILE/AKB songs are good must be tone deaf. EXILE is cirngy as hell most off the time too.
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EXILE is not an idol group, it's a boy band meets dance group. It has 2 main vocalists, sometimes they add 2 more from EXILE THE SECOND, but the rest are dancers. Takahiro is not a very good singer (mostly because they make him sing way too high for him, so you can tell it's hard for him), but Atsushi is exceptional, he sings like on CD, huge talent. People from all over the world work for LDH, their production is very HQ. I don't enjoy many songs EXILE make, but there are a lot of I like and I'm not ashamed to list them, because they do sound great: Rising Sun, I Wish For You, BOW & ARROWS, EXILE PRIDE -こんな世界を愛するため-, No Limit, NEW HORIZON, AMAZING WORLD, Heads or Tails. I prefer their upbeat, dance songs.
It's not correct to compare them to AKB48, who has tons of singing girls who can be easily replaced. I do agree that the looks are very important and LDH uses some "idol tricks" to make money - like making the singers star in movies and TV shows.
Anyway LDH treats people they audition for new bands very seriously, they train them for a very long time. If you sound live like Ayu, you won't make the cut.