by Zunu » Sun Aug 27, 2017 12:55 pm
Yeah I know all that, probably from the last time I whinged and you guys made these (completely valid) rebuttals. Nevertheless I still feel like it is slightly trapping them in an era, and that's not a good thing for a pop group. Celedam, I see your point about Jerry Lewis's tradition, but I think it somewhat supports my point in that Lewis was treated with respect and deference as a kind of fossil of a bygone age. That danged telethon seemed like an oldies hit parade when I was a kid, and that was eons ago. Same issue with Amped's pointing out that "I Wish" and "LM" were in the songlist. My feeling is that unless they are content with that sort of elder-statesman "respect", they have to get the population at large to see they're relevant to 2017, not 2002. (And no, I don't mean to update Dekkai with a hip hop beat.) At the same time I know that Japan really likes to rehash the late-Shouwa early Heisei oldies over and over again, so...whatevs.
tending to put ~ on song titles since 2002