Stage Team A 7th [M.T. ni Sasagu] (2016/02/10 - 2018/05/16)

I wanna see Naanya do it, but I want to see her sing it live. I think she has so much potential to be a decent singer, but she won't develop that unless she gets experience with live singing.

 

Why would they do that? There are plenty of times where entire units have been performed by subs.

 

Why would Paruru reject it? She has performed solos before. Sore Demo Sukidayo which is years ago but also Dear J just recently. I doubt she would do it anyway since she is still not well. However, I do think that it'll be great if Naanya gets pushed up to Sakura's position at the shonichi and Yuiri takes Naanya's shonichi position.

I wouldn't hate it if they took out Risuke completely. It is a boring song and unless they are great vocalist (which none of them are), I think their presence would be better served as back dancers in Yume te Kiss Me.

Anyway, pretty excited for this show since there'll be no kennins and it'll be closer to what I think the original lineup for the stage is but uh... Annin Bday show and she's not capable of looking somewhat alive so I wouldn't be able to handle watching closeups of her 80% of the time.

 

Paruru is a paid employee with a contract she and/or her parents signed(was a minor when she joined). She can go on all she wants about being uncomfortable doing solos. But if management told her she is doing it, she is doing it.

 

tell Sasshi that.

 

Gladly. I would tell Ban Ki-Moon to fuck off, if I felt the circumstances warranted it.

All the members, all 300+, probably have songs they would rather not do. But they do them because they are paid to do it.

Try harder.

 

anyway, the previous streaming channel has been closed. Anybody knows the valid channel? Thanks!

 

??? I don't get it. I was trying to say that Sasshi gets to chose what she gets to do, like choose what TV show she wants to appear on or what HKT theater performance she is going to attend. Akimoto nor her manager do it for her.

Who is Ban Ki-Moon?

 

I don't think it's completely safe or accurate to say that she gets to choose, or complete autonomy over her promotional activities. It's just not logical, and Sasshi isn't that big of a star to get to decide what show she goes on. What do we know anyway?

Ban Ki-Moon is the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

 

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It also depends on the situation. As @hjr1891 points out, the girls have contractual obligations to fulfill. Arbitrarily saying "I don't want to perform" amounts to insubordination. The catch is if the idol in question approaches the management and tries to negotiate a compromise, then there's the chance that the management will relent. But it's not because the idol told them to, rather, it's because they agreed to it and in a group with hundreds of other hopefuls, it's not that hard to find a replacement. The management also has the right to step in whenever an idol has demanded far too many times. That goes for all of them even if the application isn't as "equal" as I'd like to think.

 

We've seen that management does try to accommodate members though. We see it most with Paru, I think. Whether management thinks she needs the most coddling or whether she requests it herself, either way, she gets it. She has friends come to perform solos with her, she sits out dance parts in PVs but isn't excised completely, shows are changed to deal with her illness. Annin doesn't have to do handshakes anymore, something that is arguably losing AKS a bit of money. Karen was supposed to move to SKE but she was allowed to appeal and stay in AKB. And on and on. We can't know everything that goes on behind the scenes or how many girls were contractually pressured into doing something they'd rather not, but we do see examples all the time of the girls being treated fairly at least when it comes to work environment.

Part of this is pragmatic. Unhappy idols would cause a mutinous mood, which isn't good for business. But we've seen over the years in many different instances that the staff really cares about the members.

 

Very true. Management does a lot (more than people give them credit for) to ensure that their working environment isn't a demoralized mutinous mess. Not just with Paruru, but with pretty much any member - popular or otherwise - who gets really sick. What I was referring to is the "black and white" aspect of contractual obligations. There will always be a lot of "gray" in between.

 

The influenza has been hitting the 48G pretty hard lately, hopefully the management can account for that and possible surprise cases.

As far as stage substitutions go, I'd love a Nakamari solo subbing for Yui's (vice-captain after all, and a very good singer at that!)

 

Now THAT'S something I could go for. Yui's ballad is quite difficult to sing because it's an intimate song with main high parts. I really don't think many of the current members could pull it off, besides Mariko, Karen, and a couple others.

 

Hiwatan got Yume de Kiss Me. And Seifuku Bikini.

 

She did 2 unit songs already.