(Group) LinQ

[ShiroiChanUK]

day people will stop comparing every idol to AKB but won't be this year for sure also i doubt linq plans to take over the world like akb wants ... anyways, LinQ is pure quality

I was only talking about the size of the group.

[anhh]

I’m not sure how to reply to this without falling into misunderstandings and all that. AKB is the main idol group right now, and whether you like it or not, and they, somehow, shape how the image of idols, the discourse, ways to communicate with their audience, media and marketing strategies, conversations and expectations about them are understood. So yes, of course, LinQ are molded on that shape.

But, they also bring their own spin on that model of doing things. To use an example: The Beatles was a massive and successful pop group. They have a drummer, two guitars and a bass player. You could argue that, every pop or rock group using that line-up, somehow are copycats. Even if The Beatles didn’t invent that group formation or certainly, that many, many groups did lots of different things with it. Is an argument that annoys me: men are under the influence or they react to it, women only copy other women. AKB have been a very important group on my life, and I still respect it, but really can’t tell you how annoying are comparisons with them. Mostly because they are pointless, unfair or really throwing their name around is to make the guy speaking some kind of expert when he is usually only is hot air or only is throwing shit around. On those type of pages based on 2ch that talk about gravure idols, you can always expect that somebody downthread, will point something about AV. The only surprise is how soon or late it will come. The AKB comparisons are something like these.

I’m not saying that you are doing this or not saying that it is a pointless thing to do (as I have tried to do on the first paragraph), but, in the way they are usually done are just a way of ignoring whatever qualities or virtues the “copycat” idol group have on their own. A way to transcend it to talk about “the BIG things”. Standard internet fare, dreams of intellectual grandeur, boring, things to ignore. Maybe the point is interesting in the end, and the conversation worth having, but somehow they have to surpass these fences.

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[shurastriker]

day people will stop comparing every idol to AKB but won't be this year for sure also i doubt linq plans to take over the world like akb wants ... anyways, LinQ is pure quality

I was only talking about the size of the group.

me too... AKB is a massive prject with groups in several cities of Japan and even outside Japan... doubt LinQ will ever be that big

[anhh]

They are going to appear on Music Japan (not sure if the broadcast date is 4/1):

http://www.nhk.or.jp/mj-blog/150499.html

[anhh]

MV is up on Jpopsuki. You can download it also over here:

http://jpddl.com/music/227838--pv-linq-chime-ga-owareba-h264-/-hdtv-2013-04-17-.html
     

[anhh]

Edit:

How weird, the producer of the group has left to start a executive production office:

https://twitter.com/junji_ono
http://executive-pro.com/
http://ameblo.jp/kenjey-factory/entry-11503499241.html

[shurastriker]

once i read rumors that management was having some internal issues... maybeb there was some true in that after all.

[eyeless]

I love LinQ, I hope this won't change what they're right now

[anhh]

First part of that fishing show is up (and free, I'm watching it right now):

http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/douga/lovequn/6



(^skip to 9:45)





Also this bit of news-not-news:

http://www.billboard-japan.com/d_news/detail/11350

And Mizuki Moe is going to appear on Young Gangan magazine:

https://twitter.com/yg_gangan/status/319759350329667584

[eyeless]

Chime ga Owareba on Happy Music (?) Music Dragon

[anhh]

^Oh, yes, they changed the name… LiveB and Music Japan to go (they are going to appear on Girlpop TV (that now is a weekly half-hour thing), probably doing random things…

Somehow, I was waiting for this to appear to post again on this thread, because of this:

http://ameblo.jp/loveinq/entry-11509602165.html

That is, an apology from the group management, distancing themselves for the opinions his ex-producer shared on that Ustream show. I saw that show and was utterly bizarre. Nearly two hours of the guy being asked by some of the who-is-who on otakuland (in this side of things) about his opinions (and gossip) about almost every current idol group. Same people that later slashed him on Twitter, forums, blogs, etc. I don’t understand Japanese, so mostly the parts that I caught retweeted by some people: HKT manager skipping him, Afilia girls’ not talking between them (not even saying “hi”) when they are out of stage, Shizukaze & Kizuna not wanting to sell (supposedly it was supposed to be understood as not wanting to “sell-out”), T-Palette as enemy that looks as friend, etc. (also bit about BiS and Dorothy Little Happy, AKB (of course) or his predilection about Super Girls and TGS as business model, but there was more (Passpo, Hello! Project, etc.). Was a very bizarre thing, a hell of a performance (it even started on Twitter where the guy posted the bathroom of the MC, that is, what happens behind the surface), some people arguing that he was (already) drunk, and also a very strange thing to see: somebody probably ruining his career (who is going to contract his company if you have the chance that they are going to vent your internal affairs in this way? How many industry bridges burnt in one session?).

In less traumatic things, former songwriting team is going to produce next single for Lovely Doll (also TRICK8f are going to release a new single on May).

[eyeless]

This is awesome

[eyeless]

Live B, Chime ga owareba




and Kawai girl japan video about kawai matsuri

[petelechem]

Hi all, think this might be my first post here.

I'm a big fan of LinQ.  I used to be solely into 48G before I went to TIF last year.  There I discovered LinQ, i have been to visit them in Fukuoka and met and keep in contact with a lot of the fans.

I'm writing here as soon, 8th July, is Shirosaki Haruna's birthday and I will be going to Japan for this and have also been keeping in touch with her birthday committee.  I asked them if I was able to collect birthday messages from overseas and they said that would be good if I could.

So, if you wish to send a birthday message to Haruna, please drop me a PM and I will forward the messages onto the committee members in Japan.  Because the birthday is very soon, if you could please let me have any messages by saturday 29th June that would be wonderful.

Thanks in advance for your support of Haruna.

[pigmin0239]

Two new members will add on 8/10




This girl seems so talent

[unas]

[ezacessline]

Sory to bump this thread but i received the album and there is a paper with a code.
So i'm wondering what's the purpose of that paper?

[Jul3]

Sory to bump this thread but i received the album and there is a paper with a code.
So i'm wondering what's the purpose of that paper?

I asked petelechem and he said it was for this: http://ameblo.jp/loveinq/entry-11804219780.html

Lotteries for different goods... however, the best things you need multiple codes for one lottery entry...


LinQ were playing several times on my trip, but managed to always be at other events, so always missed them. Would still like to see them live... would have made more of an effort if Chisei was at the events I had the chance to attend.

[ezacessline]

Sory to bump this thread but i received the album and there is a paper with a code.
So i'm wondering what's the purpose of that paper?

I asked petelechem and he said it was for this: http://ameblo.jp/loveinq/entry-11804219780.html

Lotteries for different goods... however, the best things you need multiple codes for one lottery entry...


LinQ were playing several times on my trip, but managed to always be at other events, so always missed them. Would still like to see them live... would have made more of an effort if Chisei was at the events I had the chance to attend.

Thanks a lot you and petelechem for the answer.
I guess it's better to live in Japan to enter the lottery.

Chisei seems to do a lot of events as a dj.

[shurastriker]

SRAM