Are idol groups and light music clubs famous in your country

>>67588631
What in flipping fuck is light music club.
>idol group
Stop exporting your shit japs.

>famous
You mean popular?
Nope clubs don't practically exist in high schools. They are 2 busy studying for the college entrance exam

>>67588631
>or it just anime
Ftfy

There's music clubs but not exactly that genre it can be anything.

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>>67588631
yes we had them in soviet union

>tfw my music club was full of dudes
>no cute guitar playing anime girl

>>67588631
Only Babymetal but the average person isn't aware of the "idol" concept and just considers them a Japanese group.

>>67588631
The difference between Japan and Korea is that the korean government gives money to the labels to "export" their k-pop gropus worldwide.
Nobody actually cares about japanese idol groups, just very few diehard weebs.
Korean music is more relevant.

>>67588631
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>>67588631
>idols
It's Popular in here. Reminder we have kpop

>light music
What's that

>>67588631
School groups are only a american and japanese thing. We don't have those around here

>>67588631
The only music related clubs that we have are military style music bands, or whatever the hell these things are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWdQtHdTk7I

And symphonic student bands (or something like that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWhbtFoMe7s
By the way, what's a light music club?

what's light music? or what does it make it light? Is it a small light-weight sound system?

And idols, what is that?

>>67592528
IIRC "light music" translates best as something like pop rock.

>>67591548
It's funny that they don't get any shit for it. People already shit on manufactured music but government sponsored? That's the lowest of the low.

K-pop just rubs me so wrong and I'm not even a music snob. It just feels like the epitome of soulless art. I can appreciate if a song sounds good but even then I think most of K-pop is terrible anyway even though sometimes it's pretty high quality.

>>67592563
Ah, thanks for the answer.

Then, we don't have those. Some high school kids may have bands but not at the expenses of the school institutions they attend.

>>67591548
Implying that japan doesn't or at least didn't or attempted to.

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/10/05/governments-cool-japan-project-to-fund-akb48-sister-group-in-philippines/

Remember the gag that made a link between japan's government funding the yakuza by funding akb48 through "cool" japan.

Another thing is that japan hasn't been as successful at it as korea supposedly is.

>>67592741
At least Cool Japan is a hot failure and famous artists and citizens are outspoken against it.

It is a direct response to shrinking influence and evening the playing field set by Korea.

>>67588631
No, the concept of idols would never be popular.
Light music clubs are just regular bands i guess?

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>>67588631
Why does Yui look so off here?

>>67592844
France has a reputation for weebotry

>>67592824
Yes, I noticed that.

I'm reading an article mentioning a Guy known as Gackt lashing out at that project. I also remember reading on sankaku complex some translations of comments posted on 2ch expressing their discomfort with cool japan

Music clubs no, but a few people make their own small bands as hobbies. Idol groups not a chance. In Western countries (I doubt these are the equivalents of idols) but we look to celebrities (actors, musicians, etc) for drama and entertainment.

Yes, we had a club where 5 anime girls drank tea and sometimes played retarded music

>>67592970
They invited Babymetal a couple years ago for an interview asking how they achieved so much success abroad since Japan historically couldn't break in musically.
https://youtu.be/lO1Q7MbWnZw

They are single-handedly doing their job for them. A lot of Japanese groups have been touring the US and Europe lately. Not just anime cons like usual, real concerts.

>>67588704
zitto animare