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

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Originally Posted by njanjayrp

If anything I would say Arama is very pro-idol...AKB was never about meaningful lyrics so a random b-side doesn't mean much really. Their image also wasn't built around them as artists who create songs, play instruments and write great lyrics. So whatever you are trying to prove is a bit pointless as they are just an idol group with a great marketing team behind them. Nothing more.

What I man is that they sing whatever Akimoto Yasushi writes for them, and he's quite good at writing lyrics.

It's a bit unfair when people praise songs like
https://youtu.be/_JPKop-dYJ8

but then say this is bad?
https://youtu.be/fgESmgZ4ld8

Both songs' lyrics were written by the very same man, yet one is considered a masterpiece of Japanese music and the other is a throwaway song? That's just bias.

And as Diego said, their first singles (and their stage albums as well) were full of social commentaries, but they didn't catch people's attention with that.
They caught it with Heavy Rotation, and that's why they keep releasing that type of music.

Keyakizaka, on the other hand, debuted with Silent Majority, which resonated a lot with Japanese youth, and they haven't changed their image because they don't need to.