The Pointless *48 Musings/Rants Thread

[esm]

I think they do different things well.

MM and other H!P groups have some pretty decent singer and I care more about individual girls, but we keep getting covers that aren't done well and PVs that could be much, much better; that's usually not the case for AKB (minus the bikini and lingerie stuff, mostly because the covers do show on my iPod but I'd rather have a cover there than not). Music-wise, I like H!P as a whole more, but AKB has very good singles too. H!P is at the top for me, but AKB is also well above other idol groups in my opinion. Well, I also liked Onyanko Club, but it's also Akimoto

Anyway, I don't really need to compare them because I like both and those that think they can only like one and not the other are missing out

[esm]

I'm too lazy to make a release thread, but here's the title track for their upcoming single:

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lol @ that one girl in the audience clapping at 1:33

Kinda boring, but I like this type of song from them.

[sb]

Couple seconds in I knew it was basically the same crap that their past few singles have been.

I haven't like a song of theirs since the one that had the monster guy in the PV. And it sucks cause they a decent run where every other song was solid.

But honestly it doesn't matter, what sells is the brand. Akimoto could run out any old turd of a song out there and it'll sell.

[Zunu]

^ Wow, DO NOT WANT. That is the laziest piece of paint-by-numbers crap that they have put out yet. Also, I will probably be humming it incessantly for the next four weeks.

And totally unrelated, but I wanted to post this here instead of the other subforum, where it might cause amped to have a minor stroke...

Am I the only one who thinks that "DIY♡" is meant to sort of iconographically resemble "DIVA"?

[esm]

Yeah, a few lines in the chorus have been in my head since I listened to this. I don't necessarily like it. It's just stuck in my head.

[Pavlova]

the other day at otakon i was just walking by this figure booth and i heard an unknown song but i just knew it had to be akb. all their songs sound the same. i mean most of their singles! i fucking love a lot of their stage songs. and that doesn't mean the singles are bad, just they have this.. really cohesive sound

[Zunu]

they have this.. really cohesive sound

That is an incredibly diplomatic way of putting it.

[Rm88]

Everything since Sakura no Ki ni Narou has been abysmal in my opinion. I just don't bother anymore with them, which sucks because they used to have fantastic songs and for a while I liked their a-sides better than Morning Musume's.

[TotallyUncool]

I just heard that Takamina's going to have a solo debut. (Shows how much I keep up with AKB - I'm sure all true AKwota have know about it for the past three years or whatever )
That's a good thing -- I actually want her to have good solo material (as opposed to AKB's releases, where I long ago slipped from mild interest down to utter indifference).
My first reaction even surprised me a little bit: "But of course -- she's the Kudo Shizuka of AKB!"
I had never thought of it that way, since Takamina doesn't look or sound anything like Shizuka, but Shizuka's career was by far the most interesting and long-lasting spinoff of the Onyanko Club...

And now that I think of it, I would like to hear Takamina cover Kindan no Telepathy...

[randompasserby]

So JKT48 has just opened their official theater yesterday and apparently Takajo Aki and Nakagawa Haruka was there too. Most of my friends who're into idols/jpop or j-culture in general camped outside the theater even if they don't have tickets lol....and they saw Harugon and Akicha

*takes a deep breath*

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*exhale*

Okay i'm slightly regretting not being there...and a tiny bit envious of those who did