These girls are AKB48 doing a medley from idol songs from the 80’s included the one before (the guy that write the lyrics for their songs is the same guy that wrote for Onyanko Club but I think that sex is presented in a different light in this group). With each song, they adopt the style of their original performers. You can even check some surprised faces between them when they start with the last one. My theory is that current idol groups play with the conventions of cuteness as a way of presenting themselves, not necessarily in ironic ways, but like things that they have to do because that is what their audience wants.
The same girl criticising one girl (age 23) every time that she acts as a little girl and at the end presenting herself as a cute girl (her real image is closer to the first one). When some of the main girls graduated from high-school they said that starting that day they were “cosplaying” each time they were in the group (because the school uniforms are not part of their own life anymore). So if some girl always does this cute image, is just an accepted way of presenting themselves or acting as an archetype (like the yankee one, the bad guy that has a way of walking, sitting, talking, etc.). Again, AKB48 girls going yankee for the opening credits of their own dorama “Majisuka Gakuen”.
These girls are Ebisu Muscats. Most of them are pornstars. The song obviously is mocking some ideas about innocence and idols (because you know, they are “used” and the banana is the banana and the mango is…). Funny thing, it only works because they adhere to the idol genre conventions. The thing is that they are not mocking their own cuteness in the way they present themselves (check their third single, the PV has some sort of documentary feel about it: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xft9d0_yyyyyyyy-yyyyyy-pv_music), just the excess of artificiality that comes out of nowhere. Anyway I’m going to read that article that was linked above (found a PDF copy). Like I said above, never tried to make much sense of it, because everything else in show business over there falls inside of some image container according to age, sex, etc.
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These girls are AKB48 doing a medley from idol songs from the 80’s included the one before (the guy that write the lyrics for their songs is the same guy that wrote for Onyanko Club but I think that sex is presented in a different light in this group). With each song, they adopt the style of their original performers. You can even check some surprised faces between them when they start with the last one. My theory is that current idol groups play with the conventions of cuteness as a way of presenting themselves, not necessarily in ironic ways, but like things that they have to do because that is what their audience wants.
The same girl criticising one girl (age 23) every time that she acts as a little girl and at the end presenting herself as a cute girl (her real image is closer to the first one). When some of the main girls graduated from high-school they said that starting that day they were “cosplaying” each time they were in the group (because the school uniforms are not part of their own life anymore). So if some girl always does this cute image, is just an accepted way of presenting themselves or acting as an archetype (like the yankee one, the bad guy that has a way of walking, sitting, talking, etc.). Again, AKB48 girls going yankee for the opening credits of their own dorama “Majisuka Gakuen”.
These girls are Ebisu Muscats. Most of them are pornstars. The song obviously is mocking some ideas about innocence and idols (because you know, they are “used” and the banana is the banana and the mango is…). Funny thing, it only works because they adhere to the idol genre conventions. The thing is that they are not mocking their own cuteness in the way they present themselves (check their third single, the PV has some sort of documentary feel about it: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xft9d0_yyyyyyyy-yyyyyy-pv_music), just the excess of artificiality that comes out of nowhere. Anyway I’m going to read that article that was linked above (found a PDF copy). Like I said above, never tried to make much sense of it, because everything else in show business over there falls inside of some image container according to age, sex, etc.