http://pleasureprincipled.com Revealingly Articulate Idol Worship Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:10:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PleasurePrincipled/~3/7579Tchfmsw/ http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=517#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:01:52 +0000 Ray Mescallado http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=517 http://pleasureprincipled.com/?feed=rss2&p=517 http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=517 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PleasurePrincipled/~3/bWMMF2QaHBM/ http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=488#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:06:44 +0000 Ray Mescallado http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=488 I'd long mused: Can a canon be made for Japanese idols and their music? And, more relevant to my own experiences, can a canon be made by the overseas wota community? I haven't come to any final conclusions, but some thoughts I've had point not only to how our community is developing, but also highlights just how different we have to be from our domestic counterparts.

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Kimitsu considers the Takauno pairing in AAA and why some fans are so attached to the concept.]]> http://pleasureprincipled.com/?feed=rss2&p=478 http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=478 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PleasurePrincipled/~3/i1YAuXdfy9M/ http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=476#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:00:20 +0000 pengie http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=476 Think about it: when is the last time you watched a Morning Musume, Berryz Koubou, C-ute, AKB48, or Perfume video with a male in it? (Don't answer that yet.) Stretching it even further, out to the less mainstream idol groups, most of which have ceased to exist - when did a male ever enter a PV for, say, Whiteberry? The answer isn't "never," but "almost never," which is close enough.

pengie considers where the boys aren't in the no man's land of idol promotional videos.]]> http://pleasureprincipled.com/?feed=rss2&p=476 http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=476 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PleasurePrincipled/~3/NizEGpMLdXY/ http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=474#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:01:27 +0000 Vee http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=474 Art and creation existed before the muses, but they were instrumental in aiding its creation by mankind. Such is the way of Morning Musume. If we treat Tsunku as Zeus and Heike Michiyo as Mnemosyne, the offspring of their shared time would be Morning Musume.

Vee indulges in some striking comparative mythology. ]]> http://pleasureprincipled.com/?feed=rss2&p=474 http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=474 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PleasurePrincipled/~3/J7nwoGox4Og/ http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=463#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:00:56 +0000 Ray Mescallado http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=463 Maybe the people behind SweetS were taking a cue from the 2000 European single "Moi... Lolita" by Alizée - if Super Euro Beat works in Japan, why not a Super Pedo Beat? Or maybe they were looking around for an untapped market of music listeners and felt that fans of rorikon - that is, Lolita Complex - were in need of their own anthem.]]> http://pleasureprincipled.com/?feed=rss2&p=463 http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=463 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PleasurePrincipled/~3/NYj6-FapOAs/ http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=452#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:00:52 +0000 Ray Mescallado http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=452 After downloading the video, I watched it - and it scared the shit out of me. By that I mean I opened up the file, saw how young the girls were, and there was something about them that seemed... wrong. Like, jailbait wrong.]]> http://pleasureprincipled.com/?feed=rss2&p=452 http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=452 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PleasurePrincipled/~3/Kc268tEGPa0/ http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=458#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:39:55 +0000 Staff http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=458 http://pleasureprincipled.com/?feed=rss2&p=458 http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=458 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PleasurePrincipled/~3/D9ICuylbRgY/ http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=419#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:00:40 +0000 Staff http://pleasureprincipled.com/?p=419
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