un: specialprize

[isntitsad]

Exciting times, aren't they? I have to say all this idol hype is a little nostalgic. Even if I usually worked with independent groups, I do know a few pro idols back home! It's a tough life, but some people might say the reward is worth it.

With that said, though, I'm always interested to hear about the music industry in other worlds. What's popular where you come from? Or maybe more importantly, what's it like there? I know some of you come from some pretty different places, like that world where rap battles are a little more literal than most. That still throws me a little, but it sounds exciting, too, doesn't it?

Even if you're not in the music industry yourself, I'm sure you have a couple stories.

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[hagrides]

I am less familiar with idols, but may I speak to you of my troupe's musician? A wonderful performer and an essential part of our act.

[let him Gush]

[isntitsad]

Go ahead! Far be it from me to stop you from talking about that. A musician doesn't need a recording contract to be great.

[hagrides]

His name is Brumm, and he is one of my dearest friends. A retiring type who speaks few words, but says more with his music.

[isntitsad]

It sounds like he's really important to you. So he puts his feelings into his music?

[regale]

Pick me~ pick me~ I will tell you many stories ♪

[ He's aware it's not a contest he is just. Like this. ]

[isntitsad]

Go ahead! I'm sure you have plenty to talk about.

[regale]

That's quite right! I am your Hibiki Wataru, your fellow idol... ♪

Ohh, but I'm not not sure where to start... fufu, shall we begin with musical genres? Dance numbers? The name of one's first unit? Perhaps something like who we idolize the most ourselves?

[isntitsad]

Oh, I'm no idol! I run a live house, actually, back home. I couldn't cut it as a performer, so I decided to devote my career to helping out the next new musicians. But tell me about your career! All those things you brought up sound interesting.

[Text, UN: bardic_uncertainty]

[have_hat_will_travel]

Sadly, as I think I've discussed before, there's no 'industry' for music - or honestly much of anything else - where I'm from. Just disorganized bards who steal songs from each other.

[isntitsad]

It doesn't sound that nice when you put it that way, but then, there's a case to be made for copyright being too restrictive. After all, art builds on art, and it's always good to hear someone's take on another's work!

[have_hat_will_travel]

Not that we had much of that going, either. Most towns had maybe one bard, and then he moved on to another town and a new one moved in.

It just seemed normal to me, until I saw more organized music as the norm here...

[isntitsad]

I think that might be everyone's experience here, just not always with music. Sounds like you're pretty interested in how things go around here, though. Since I run a live house back home, I can't blame you. I've always liked seeing how people connect with their songs.

text; un: zaveid

[sivard]

What's an idol? I'm afraid I don't really know what you mean by "music industry".

[isntitsad]

An idol is a professional singer, specifically a certain type with a very manufactured image. Explaining more would require explaining the music industry in detail and also a lot of other things, but, well, you know the hype around BTSB these days? They're an idol unit. The music industry comprises people who produce music professionally, whether it's the artists themselves, their managers, publicists, and other staff, and even people like me who run live music venues.

[sivard]

I don't know what a lot of that means, but it sounds pretty cool.

What a neat job, singing and entertaining people.

[isntitsad]

Right? In a society this big, there are all kinds of things you can do.

text, un: sougo_i7

[koboreta]

It's always a pleasure to meet someone else who works in the music industry. My world seems fairly normal compared to some of the stories I've heard, so I'm not sure where I should start, but I'm actually a professional idol both here and back home.

If you don't mind me asking, what do you do?

[isntitsad]

That sounds exciting! I run a live house called CiRCLE, and lately I've been setting up events in collaboration with some of the other venues in Tokyo. Before I came here, we were running a big competition for local girl bands, even managed to book the Budoukan. So I mostly work with independent acts, but I know some idols! We've managed to get units like Pastel＊Palettes at some of our events, though I'll bet different worlds would probably have different idols so you might not recognize them.

[koboreta]

From a live house to the Budoukan?! That's incredible!

I don't recognize them, unfortunately, but there seem to be many versions of "Japan." I also live and work in Tokyo and have performed at the Budoukan, but I'm guessing that units like IDOLiSH7, TRIGGER, or Re:vale aren't familiar to you either.

Your work sounds amazing. Even as an idol, I've loved music for a long time, so I can't help visiting live houses whenever I get the chance. Independent artists have a unique freshness to them, don't they?

[manufactured]

I was wondering if this entire business with the idols lately would interest you. It seemed something you would like, judging from our previous discussion.

[isntitsad]

It's exciting, isn't it? And it's nice to see what takes over the city be something, well, normal after the last few months. And not so literal in the taking-over.

[manufactured]

The idols do seem decidedly less lethal, it's true. And decidedly less likely to surprise us on that front, no less.

[text | @hot.damn]

[circumitus]

dont know jack shit about the industry but theres a genre thats gotten more popular these days...think its called "crash-b" or something like that
mostly just loud noise and pretentious lyrics
never got into it

always been more fond of opera personally
got one of those music boxes from the wolf shop to play some of that

[isntitsad]

That sounds fun! They've got all sorts of useful things there, haven't they?

[circumitus]

kind of
tho you have to go thru a lot of pointless shit to find anything useful there