It seems half the time I post here I just seem to be ranting about something vaguely related to Japanese entertainment. I try hard not to but sometimes I really just can't control the urge unless I was to start speaking out loud, in which case I would probably start to scare my parents (ranting to myself in my room probably makes it seem like I'm posessed). Anyway, I'll try to keep this short.
So. If anyone checks out arama maybe they saw the couple comments and then the eventual post these days about how the Japanese entertainment industry works. I know how the Japanese industry works, along Korea, Taiwan, and to an extent Hong Kong (the HK-ent industry is a joke so I don't even know I bother to mention it). Someone proceeded to go on and on about how it was a terrible system and made it seem like the Japanese entertainment industry was something of a crime. I read all her comments, her arguments and her justifications and I really don't see why she thinks that.
Japan is a different country. They do things differently. VERY differently..... what is the big deal? So J-Idols (and many "tarento") get paid on salary. But that's NORMAL to them AND - AND... for idols anyway, and especially Johnny's - they actually aren't THAT poor. Korean idols..... okay fine, that is a problem but that also probably has to do with the fact that their music industry.. kind of sucks? But to be honest, in Japan, the idols KNOW what they are doing. To them it's a job, they know they are being manufactured and faked and they know how much they're being paid and all that shit. They're not being tricked. They know that their company is hoarding a ton of money that is "rightfully theirs" (although in my opinon "rightfully theres in this case depends on someones perspective", and also - I'm specifically talking about idols). To the legit artists of Japan I do feel bad that their talent is being squished but this happens everywhere. Even in America. YES - EVEN IN AMERICA. *gasp* Could this be? uh. Yes.
Face it - all entertainment industries are flaws. America. Asia. You name it. I see no reason for the Japanese entertainment industry to be "boycotted" when essentially there is nothing WRONG with what they do. Not really. It's a business. The CEO's sit in their offices doing nothing and taking all the money while the workers work their assess off day and night and making (compartively) "nothing". We (as in westerners) only see it as wrong because it is different from what OUR SOCIETY teaches us is RIGHT. (for the entertainment industry anyway)
Now. If the talents are being kidnapped off the streets as 13 year olds against their will and threatened to sign slave contracts for 50 years while being paid 5-cents an hour for a 48hour work day, THEN you can go complain and boycott and blah. But for now - Japan is actually one of the BETTER countries in how they treat their "idols" - because unlike Korea and Hong Kong... guess what? They actually have an okay salary. True - they aren't MILLIONAIRES like hollywood actors, but who said they had to be? Better question yet - do all the celebrities in America deserve all the money they are getting? Uh. I highly doubt it to be honest.
and before anyone says "could you be a hollywood actor" or "I'd like to see you be an awesome singer" - No, I don't. But that doesn't mean I think they're worth that amount of money anyway.
/endrant
