At an average performance “lucky” audience members are invited onstage where they are subsequently covered in food and condiments. Hanako-San appears onstage alone as the blood-drenched, eye-patched ghost of a schoolgirl who covers the audience in liquid, usually milk, which she spits from her mouth. The solo idol known as 14th Generation Hanako-San of the Toilet plays pretty legit grindcore with some bizarre twists. In some versions of the story Hanako was killed during the World War Two bombing of Japan. A common one among school children involves the ghost of a young girl, Hanako, who dwells in school bathrooms awaiting her prey. 14 th Generation Hanako-San of the Toilet To get you started, I’m going to tell you about six underground idol groups whose music stands up to their non-idol peers. There will be blast beats, ripping solos and screamed vocals. It is best to have an open mind.Īt their core the bands I will be telling you about all use conventional metal as the basis for their work. There will be moments where you won’t understand exactly what is happening or why.
There will often be no musicians onstage. There will be completely inappropriate incorporation of other genres, sometimes electronic dance music.
There will be unusual sounding Japanese melodies. Today there are a variety of idol groups performing music inspired by an impressive array of heavy metal sub-genres.īefore we talk about these groups you’ll need a bit of a warning. So well that by 2016 there existed an idol group for every type of music imaginable. In fact, this new wave of idol groups were mainly inspired by a self-described anti-idol group called BiS (Brand-new Idol Society) who performed very convincing pop punk which was very much at odds with the prevailing trend.Īnd it worked. While Babymetal are often credited with being the first idol group to perform listenable music, that is mainly because they were the first to attract an audience outside of Japan. Somewhere around 2010 frustrated music producers who were not pop oriented began to create idol groups using different genres of music. Most idols are between 16 and 25 years old but occasionally can be as young as ten years old.
These idol groups generally consist of anywhere between one and 150 or more women, usually singing and dancing along with backing tracks. Female fronted groups like AKB48 and Morning Musume, who no person with functioning ears should ever listen to, have obliterated conventional performers from the music charts. By Ron Anicich What is Japanese idol culture?įor decades the Japanese popular music scene has been dominated by idol groups who have over-saturated the market with their bland, computer-driven pop music.
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