New Japanese Pop Idol Shocks Fans With News - She’s Not Real

Post by tomlin » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 3:58 PM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #6

This is only a little bit weirder on the continuum of what we already do for pop starlets, both in Japan and the United States. Japan has been manufacturing them -- that is totally the right word, too -- for about 30 years. Disney cottoned onto it a bit later. These days producers already have the key personality traits, demographic fit, sound, and marketing campaign for the new brand already planned out prior to lau…

Post by jedschmidt » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 4:24 PM UTC

pyre wrote: post #34

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #31

Now automate the entire thing. 20 years from now. You are befriended on Facebook++ by a person who looks somewhat like all the previous girlfriends you have had. Initiating a 3-D video chat, she seems very friendly and has a lot of the same interests as you do. Every now and then -- so infrequently that you do not notice -- she mentions a particular brand or commercial product, always providing a link. Other than tha…

It's already happening to some extent with real people. There was an article that passed through here a while back that had interviews with ex-419 scammers. One of them was making a living by pretending to be the online girlfriend of some guy. He talked about it in much the same way. He would give him advive, cheer him up, etc. He was essentially 'farming' the guy for money. But this means that he had to deliver real…

Post by kobepanda » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 4:52 PM UTC

ralfd wrote: post #26

bane wrote: post #23

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That manufacturing also appears to carry a considerable investment (or possible payoff). One initially wonders why, when manufactured pop stars spectacularly flame out, that they are simply told to go low profile for a while then come back and act like nothing happened...until you think of them as a multi-million dollar entertainment machine their managers no doubt poured tons of money into in the form of singing les…

Is there in Korea (Asia) a counter culture to pop? The western youth is regularly driven like a pendulum to alternative and uncommercialised styles like Hippies, punk, grunge, electro. The stereotypical hipster who only likes obscure music and independent art by starving but true artists.

Post by Semiapies » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 5:41 PM UTC

JonnieCache wrote: post #20

patio11 wrote: post #6

This is only a little bit weirder on the continuum of what we already do for pop starlets, both in Japan and the United States. Japan has been manufacturing them -- that is totally the right word, too -- for about 30 years. Disney cottoned onto it a bit later. These days producers already have the key personality traits, demographic fit, sound, and marketing campaign for the new brand already planned out prior to lau…

>If Disney could produce popstars in a laboratory they would. They basically did. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mickey_Mouse_Club

Post by falcolas » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 5:50 PM UTC

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #31

Now automate the entire thing. 20 years from now. You are befriended on Facebook++ by a person who looks somewhat like all the previous girlfriends you have had. Initiating a 3-D video chat, she seems very friendly and has a lot of the same interests as you do. Every now and then -- so infrequently that you do not notice -- she mentions a particular brand or commercial product, always providing a link. Other than tha…