AKB48 have been widely criticised for a recent performance in Thailand, already subject to hyperbolic criticism as an embarrassment to Japan.
AKB48’s performance at the Japan Expo Thailand came under heavy fire after the idols’ singing seemed to be out of tune and inharmonious. The following video, uploaded by a Korean Youtuber, shows them in a very poor light indeed:
Reaction to the performance has been extremely critical:
“If that’s how they sing, they should be embarrassed to even go to karaoke with friends!”
“Is this ‘cool Japan’?”
“I turned off after a minute. This is terrorism!”
“J-pop idols are just tone-deaf! They can’t sing and they can’t dance; I don’t understand why the Japs like them.”
“If they tried to charge people for a live show abroad, they’d get a bunch of rocks thrown at them!”
“They’re not in tune with the music and their dancing isn’t in sync. They can’t even be considered singers if they can’t work together in a group!”
Even Japanese viewers were largely unimpressed by the showing:
“This is an embarrassment to Japan!”
“This is like karaoke.”
“They should have at least practiced first!”
“To send these girls out as the face of AKB is just bad management.”
“I really want AKB to stop going overseas because they’re a national embarrassment.”
However, some were sceptical of any video uploaded from Japan’s peninsular rival:
“Maliciously processed video uploaded by a Korean!”
In defence of the girls, it has been noted that they were nervous beforehand and they appeared to have microphone problems. A clip from a different part of the show suggests their performance might not have been universally terrible:
For whatever reason, the predominantly adult male fans still seemed to be enjoying themselves while watching the short-skirted young girls cavorting around, so this may be a case of “no harm, no foul” – for fans at least.
Shamefur dispray.
shemmufuru dishipurei!!!
Sehmfuru diispurei
“Our men are running from the batturfierd!”
Needs less clothes
How many layers do those skirts have..? They’re doing kicks and you can’t catch glimpses because there’s like 4 layers..
HOW DO I PREMIUM?????
Wait for the Blu-ray!
This is what happens when you have people who can’t sing do a live… 90% of music production nowadays is Protools, Antares Autotune and multiple layers of effects. You don’t need any talent.
That is more true then most people want to admit.
Which is why I view concerts a smarphone raising money waste. Lots of people recording with their devices like idiots and songs performed are different than the actual songs that was recorded at a studio.
Listen, and understand AKB48. The 2D idol is out there. It canβt be bargained with. It canβt be reasoned with. It doesnβt feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
Can you stop it???
I dont know….with this awful perfomance, I dont know!!
What kind of drugs are you on?
It’s called T-800, appeared out of nowhere on the streets of LA in 1984. It’s some good shit, you should try it. Even after T-1000 hit the streets in 1995 T-800 still kicked its ass.
if you mute the sound it gets much better !
AKB48 in and of itself is an embarrassment to Japan.
Yea because we all listen to AKB48 for the music. . . LoL
Give me a fucking break – even if you hate AKB / Japanese idols anyone who watches more than 30 seconds of this can see the video has been obviously altered. There are blurs over the members’ mouths when they are singing, both the audio and video have been sped up and slowed down at numerous points, the audio has been assembled from numerous other tracks (that have also been edited) and then overlayed onto the actual audio, etc etc.
There are plenty of things to criticize AKB over but this is just troll bait, and a really poorly put together example at that.
It’s weird… The video is a multi-cam setup, not someone is the audience recording it… It must be fake. Recording of some girls in a karaoke added to the official video.
CHeck out Manila Philippines version of akb48 called mnl48, I shit you not, its worst than thailand
Now I’m worried about my country too. There’s going to be a AKB48 version here in the Philppines as well.
WE NEVER ASK FOR THIS!
NO FUCKING WAY BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Milli Vanilli
What is this trash? The AKB48 thingy still exist? The only thing I know is most girls ended up to be AV actresses. They sing like this bad, may as well skip the idol thing and go straight to AV. It saves everyone time and money, including their owns.
No, most of the girls DO NOT become AV, it only happens to like 1 out of 300 hundred girls, in a group that is composed for around 400 hundred (ish) girls. So no, you are wrong.
this is why love live > akb
You mean a bunch of dumb whores who are paid to flash their panties, shake hands with perverts and fuck their sponsors can’t really sing?! Well fuck me. And here I thought everyone on autotune was a master vocalist.
>dumb whores
What did they ever do to you?
Rejected him after creepily stalking one of them
Having so many members, they probably just sent the jobless and low tier ones to the expo show. But it was really hard to watch…
#FUCKYOUJAPAN!!!!!!!!!!
FUCKING KOREANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BKK48 JUST FUCKING RESEMBRANCE BY FUCKING AKB48 DUMBBITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FUCK THAILAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t you mean fuck Thai bargirls ?
FUCK ASEAN-JAPANESE SUPREMACY,BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FUCK YOU AKB48 BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep that video was pretty painful to watch.
they forgot to turn on the karaoke…
So much criticism, but since I have some experience with being the tech guy behind the sound system let me tell you this truthfully:
I’m amazed they didn’t go from playback. The fact that they were actually singing WHILE dancing is awesome and the sound system – as poor quality as it is and with no enhancements – performed well enough NOT to spoil the songs with the girl’s inhale’s and exhale sounds with each dancing move.
With the available equipment on stage – I would say the sound man could do a little better , but it is a decent LIVE performance.
Every person who compares this to a recording should not judge and definitely not criticize this performance.
It sounded like shit, of course people are going to judge.
try to dance and sing and tell us how well it goes
Probably not so well, but then, it is not his job to do so. It is their job though, so competent performance should be expected.
@21:38
@1:17
Yeah, well, thatβs just, like, your opinions, dudes.
Somebody forgot to turn AutoTune on
Those were clearly major microphone and mixing problems they weren’t out of sync. They had shit quality equipment. But they’re an embarrassment anyways π
So was your birth.
This is your future, Japan
https://youtu.be/fwSqNg-mSI4
This is nothing, just wait until feminazi imports from the west start demanding idols put on more clothes. It’ll kill what’s left of the industry.
Who the fuck even mentioned feminism??? For once this post has nothing to do with politics, feminism, or the evils of “the left” why even bring that up? Do you get off on if? Not every Sankaku post has to be about that you know? Let’s stick to anime titties and general smut for fap material like we always did.
If you don’t like opposition to rad-fems and tumblr transfats, you can say goodbye to your porn.
The conservative right used to be the censor-bullies. Now it’s the authoritarian left. It is ok to oppose those assholes whenever they try to curtail your freedom. It doesn’t matter which political philosophy they belong to.
If you look back (even on this very site), most people expressed their opposition to rightwing (usually christian) nutjobs trying to censor everything. Times have changed. It’s the feminazi left that is a threat to our freedom now. And they should not be allowed to get a pass, just because they are on the left.
Ohh, worried about the bad reputation ..
I bet if the post was praising feminists, you would be cheering and thumbs ups ..
Politics aside, Jpop is already banned in some countries and sexiest clothes worse yet ..
Probably feminist petition in forums, banishing Jpop with girls not missing!
Now, Jpop male with fujoshi face OK!!
TRIGGERED
And what exactly does that have to do with this article? The tinfoiling is out of control.
Use google. You don’t need a tinfoil if it’s visible in plain sight. Just look for ‘beach body ready’, or ‘grid girls’. You can go from there.
‘And what exactly does that have to do with this article?’ you asked. Simple: Feminists not only hate men, they also do not like women. Usually because other women are attractive and desirable. Something no feminist can ever call themselves without being loudly laughed at. So they take it out on everybody, with ever increasing demands (safe spaces, trigger warnings, political violence, no-platforming and so on).
Also, you can never please them. No matter how many times you give in to their silly and childish demands, they never stop complaining about the most petty, trivial (or even normal and natural) things.
Okay buddy, time to stop playing lilβ conspirator to an article that has jack shit to do with feminism. Time for bed.
I don’t give a fk about AKB but this isn’t really the girl’s fault. This is just what happens when u have a really shit sound system with no enhancements and a shitty guy on the board and still insist on having ppl dance and sing on stage instead of just lip syncing.
Nah, it’s an edited video, sounds almost like an acapella. I’ve done similar editing before when I wanted just a vocal track of one song, it’s not so hard to do.
To not hear that much and call AKB a tone-deaf lol
OK, so their singing’s shit, who cares as long as you can still fap?
i don’t listen to them, so i don’t know what they’re supposed to sound like, but the top one sounded funny as hell. bottom one sounded fine. on my powerful stereo, the top one carried no base, the bottom one sounded like the outskirts of a concert where the bass and music drown out the vocals.
Omg! People who come to AKB live to listen songs should see a doctor. They are not singers, they are idols. ε―ζγγγ°δ½γ§γγγ
Listen to the first video and the second video. The first one was obviously processed by some program maliciously.
actually, the second one was the act where they just simply playbacked. 1st one was actual live performance.
Lol right. First one sounds almost like acapalla with hardly any music audible. And that’s at a live concert, Carl. That just soooo not edited. You have such a good ears I’m damn jealous.
Korean like to process video of live performances wherein they remove the music/playback to try and listen to the actual singing. They do that all the time to their idols and it’s sometimes really horrible.
It’s made specifically to hear what can usually be drowned by the loud music/playback.
There’s no malicious manipulation, and if anything, it’s probably more honest than a non edited video. Oh, and the out of sync dancing isn’t affected.
Lol, right. It’s sounds “horrible” for people just because all the music was taken out of it. Be it unproccessed version they won’t be able to tell of it’s quality for shit. And as they even DEBATING whatever it’s proceed or not. DEBATING, Carl! It already telling us everything what should be known about they hearing ability. Lol, saying – “Oh wow! They taken out the music and now it’s bad!”, tells much more of they own tone deafness over AKB’s one.
Talking about “honesty” is derailing bullshit. If you can’t tell how bad or good it is by proper version that’s all there is to it.
proof? Just saying they are basically lip syncing is not going to be believed.
Shamefuru dispray
u do not know de wey
Don’t try to do live performance which require real skills. Singing, dancing, & acting in general are too hard for Japanese. Just keep exporting anime to oversea, that’s what japan best at, and should just stick with ’em.
If Japan really want to do live show outside Japan, then maybe their JAV artist will be much suitable than these inexperience wannabe artist. I’m sure Thailand would love those ladies’ live performance on stage over this embarrassment.
Don’t try to write comments on music videos without having a basic hearing ability.
Yeah they are the worst in the world.even Africans are better than Japs.
Everyone is better than filthy and disgusting sub human nigger
Thats an unfair comparison, all modern music, and most dancing based on rhythm is directly influenced by african culture.
most dance beats are based off the human heart beat; niggers have nothing to do with it
I think he’s actually talking about Africans as in the freaky tribal Africans that do ritualistic dances not Black people as in hip hop and what not or at least that’s how I picture it. Most Black people as we know them aren’t exactly “Africans” per se.
Lately, the Japanese can’t seem to do anything correctly. This new era is really bad…
I need a backstage pass and some alone time with the girls. They’ll be moving a whole lot better after I’m done π
As if an ugly virgin like you could actually do something in the presence of a girl π
Takes one to know one. Btw tell your mum thanks for last night π
shut the fuck up
We must send Crusaders to Japan or nuke Japs again.they are too contradictory and worse than southeast asia that They dont allow JK members to wear bikini.
Send crusaders to you moms ass, merican filth.
All those pig raced asian scum will be drowning in water soon enough.
Let’s launch a crusade of Japan and conquer all the soap lands
How fucked up are you people who keep nonchalantly bringing up these nuke Japan again “jokes” every fucking day.
Itβs old news already. Stop shoehorning it into relevance.