Thread 82184655

>Be pretty enough to become an "idol"
>Get some inhumane contract and working hours that prohibit you from having a social life and really any relationships
>All your fans are gross disgusting losers
Why do these people do this or want to do this? Why not just become a rockstar and fuck your entire band including the bassist instead with no one caring? What's the appeal of this line of work? As far as showbusiness goes this seems terrible.

>>82184655 (OP)
Often they dont know but it also leads to bigger roles.

>>82184669
Yeah but don't you get that with being a rock star as well or just any other job in music.
Like why would you pick "idol" of all things? You need to be able to sing, look good, and dance as much as any other music act except:
>fans are all gross extravirgins
>if you ever get caught on camera as much as making eye contact with anyone of the opposite sex in some restaurant your career is over due to the above clientele.

>>82184689
They get picked/scouted for these roles before they know any better. It's how you got those morning musume scandals where they made a whole problem about idols smoking lol.

>>82184731
As in, they get scouted when they are young and then when they get older they begin to rebel not just against their parents but against their agency/producer san.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Kago

>>82184655 (OP)
>Why not just become a rockstar and fuck your entire band including the bassist instead with no one caring?
That has never happened. Except for maybe some all-male gay metal band or something.

and really it's a better life than being a maid cafe girl or some other Japanese nonsense

>>82184689
>You need to be able to sing,
most idols are notoriously mediocre if not bad singers, if they even sing live at all instead of using a backing track
>look good,
women do that for fun
>and dance
again, they do that for fun regardless of being in a idol group or not - Japanese girls fuckin love dancing on tik tok.

>fans are all gross extravirgins
>if you ever get caught on camera as much as making eye contact with anyone of the opposite sex in some restaurant your career is over due to the above clientele.
This was a big deal 15 years ago or whatever, but zoomers don't have sex or relationships anymore anyways - doubly so in Japan they were way ahead of us with the whole technology-obsessed autistic sexless society thing.

>>82184759
Well that's right because it didn't include the bassist, but the voice actor for Migi was in a rockband and did that.
Very based.