[Charts & Rankings] AKB48 surpass Ayu as best selling female Japanese artist

[Trinu]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

You actually think this wasn't company backed from the beginning? And even if it hadn't been, them uploading it amounts to the same thing.

Sure. But they took it down.
Miichan had a rebirth arc after that that wouldn't have been possible had she left.

As for the lyrics thing.
In alk the groups, they have over 1000 songs. Of course they're gonna tap on every issue possible. But to say they promote prostitution? That's a reach. They simply talked about the issue, same as they've used bullying snd suicide.

Again, I'm not defending them in this ranking thing because everybody knows what's what, but they really have great songs out there and I feel people's bias gets in the way of getting to them.

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by Trinu

Sure. But they took it down.

After massive backlash from the Japanese public.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of idol groups that I like and have gotten into over the years, but that doesn't mean the companies aren't in many ways extremely backward and aren't often in line at all with what the current mindset of the general public is; just the mindset of what caters to the otaku audience, who like it or not are what account for the majority of their sales.

It's almost like the company said, "whoops! This isn't okay to do in modern japan any more?? Even the majority of the people in Japan think this?? Oh sorry, didn't realize. Taking it down and will make a note, no more head shaving punishments in the future. Got it."