[Jpop Music] Minami Minegishi du groupe AKB48, scandale et violation de règle d'idole

C'est pas le genre de nouvelle qui habituellement m'affecte ou me touche, mais je suppose que tout ceux qui sont vraiment otaku de Jpop musique au japon et qui suive l'univers des idoles connaisse grandement qu'elle est l'importance de l'un des plus grand groupe d'idole de jpop musique dans c'est dernière année.

AKB48



un article est sortie parlant d'une erreur fait par l'une de ses membres Minami et du châtiment qui en suivie. Il y a des règle stricte a suivre dans l'univers des idoles au japon.... et enfreindre ces règle résulte bien souvent a la fin de la carrière de la personne.

Qu'elle fut la règle #1 des idoles au japon?? on a pas le droit d'avoir de petit ami!!

voici l'article sur le sujet.

Remember when Britney Spears cut off all her hair? That was disconcerting. This week, Minami Minegishi, a member of Japan's biggest girl group AKB48, appeared in a YouTube video, apologizing and crying. Her head was shaved. Likewise, disconcerting. Online
in Japan, however, people wondered if this was some kind of sick
punishment for a tabloid story about her spending the night with a boy
band member. No, it was a public shaming.
On January 31, a Japanese tabloid published photos of Minegishi apparently leaving the house of a boy band member named Alan Shirahama. An article like this could destroy a young idol's career, with her losing fans or even kicked out of the group.
Minegishi is a member of AKB48, which is Japan's biggest musical act.
On
the group's official YouTube channel, a distressed Minegishi appeared
with a shaved head and repeatedly said she was sorry, but didn't go into
detail. The video has nearly six million views. Minegishi's shaved head
is even splashing in mainstream Western news outlets.




The singer also said she didn't want to quit the group and that she
had shaved her head on her own accord (she apparently shaved her head
with scissors). Her video apology is deeply disturbing. To add insult to
injury, the group's management demoted Minegishi to a "trainee" role,
pushing her to he lowest position one can hold in the group. Minegishi
is 20 years old. Shirahama is 19 years old. Whether or not they are
both consenting adults doesn't matter much in the world of Japanese
idols.
One of the rules of her group AKB48 is that members are
not allowed to have boyfriends. Posing in bikinis or underwear for mags
is okay. Boyfriends are not. For idol groups like AKB48, such rules are
the norm. The reason why idols are not allowed to have boyfriends is
that real world dating destroys the pure fantasy of male fans. The idol
becomes just like any other girl. She's normal.
Thus, proof of just normal she is destroys the desire to place her on a pedestal.
Worse than being knocked off her pedestal, Minegishi is now forum fodder. Online in Japan, the country's biggest web forum, 2ch,
has already created endless memes, using images from Minegishi's
apology to paste her face on bald kung-fu monks, inmates, and soldiers.
Meanwhile,
AKB48 fans are upset about Minegishi behaving in what they'd call an
unfitting manner, and then shaving off all her hair to say how sorry she
is. Then, to complicate things further, fans got upset after another
AKB48 member tweeted
a photo out of a shaved-head Minegishi giving out dual peace signs and
smiling. It was as though she wasn't really sorry and this was just a
farce or a PR stunt. This cruel shaming became incongruous with
happy-go-lucky photos. Something was up.

Idols
fans everywhere buy into fantasy and lies. They like these young
singers, whether they are male or female, because they seem perfect. In
the West, Britney Spears' image was monitored much more closely when she
was younger. Since then, it's been a constant unraveling of what people
thought she was like. In Japan, a similar thing happens with pop stars,
but in a far more concentrated form. Retribution for mistakes is swift
and decisive.
Minegishi's reaction—the video and the
haircut—isn't a Britney Spears style meltdown, which was a troubling cry
for help. Here, it's Minegishi humiliating herself to show how sorry
she was, or, depending on how jaded you are, an unsettling PR stunt.
Idol or not, why should grown women apology for being grown women?

Get ready to frown sadly at your computer screen. Pragaash, the first
all-girl rock band in Indian-controlled Kashmir, has been forced to
break up after receiving violent threats via social media and orders to
cease by Kashmir's state-appointed cleric Mufti Bashiruddin Ahmad. The
band, made up of teen girls Farah Deeba (drums), Aneeqa Khalid (bass
guitar) and Noma Nazir (guitar and vocals) came into the public eye
after placing third at an annual Battle of the Bands in Srinagar (the
main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir) that had been organized by an
Indian paramilitary force to win over the region.
Soon after,
however, the girls began receiving threats online, being called
"prostitutes and sluts," and some demanding their exile. While the girls
had a fair share of support, including that of top elected official
Omar Abdullah who said that "the talented teenagers should not let
themselves be silenced by a handful of morons," Pragaash ultimately
decided to disband after cleric Ahmad publicly stated that the girl
musicians should "stop from these activities and not to get influenced
by the support of political leadership."
"They feel terribly
scared and want an immediate end to this controversy once for all," says
Adnan Mattoo, the rock group's music teacher and manager. "First, the
girls had decided to quit live performance due to an online hate
campaign and concentrate on making an album. But after an edict by the
government's own cleric, these girls are saying goodbye to music."
Unfortunately
for Pragaash, this issue runs deeper than three teen girls deciding to
start a band. Indian-controlled Kashmir is in the middle of an intense
freedom struggle and the girls have somehow become the poster children
used to rile up either side and prove what the separatist alliance calls
India's "step toward diverting young girls toward Westernization."
It's unclear whether or not the male winners of Battle of the Bands have received any harassment as well.
Pragaash
may have publicly given up on music, but I like to imagine that they're
secretly working on some unplugged sets and that, years from now, Behind the Music is gonna mark this as the band's beginning and not the band's end.
Oh, and elsewhere in the world, Minami Minegishi, a 20-year-old member of a Japanese girl band called AKB48, recorded herself
shaving her head and tearfully apologizing after the paparazzi caught
her leaving her boyfriend's house in the morning. Ugh, let's all start
bands and sleep around in protest.