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hopefully this can provide some clarification on how they are different from normal singers: "Idols are characterized by a strong personality that allows them to easily approach a wide variety of genres including singing, dancing, acting, and comedy. They differ from models in that, while all models require signifanctly good looks, there are many idols who lack looks but are very likeable." The closest thing I can think of in
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articles simply follow this trend without worrying about how much the sources themselves justify their use of the term. Note that in many cases these sources aren't actually cited in the articles. I'm just surmising that editor who originally added the category did so due to knowing intuitively that the sources are out there.
354:(the latter says "with a dedicated fanbase" in the lede which I read as idolatry). These articles give the impression that being an idol or not is largely determined by which company accepts your audition. If this is correct, the neutral step IMO would be trading the above categories for a bunch that are company specific.
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I mean that sources establish a trend of calling someone an idol and the
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I think this is a case where the arbitrary criterion is being applied by others, namely marketing departments. If the numbers show that training someone as an "idol" instead of a singer is preferable, they undertake a campaign to help that word appear in as many sources as possible. So the
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That's just it. It's a promotional term used by companies with a vested interest in spreading the idea that everyone should love the boy-bands and girl-groups that are signed to them. It would be better to use a word that doesn't favour a particular industry's point of view. Even with the same word,
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exclusively does so. Idols and idol groups have specific marketing that sets them apart from typical entertainers and actors, and some of them even have a typical sound due to having the same in-house producers. If anything, making the category "Idol singers" and "Idol groups" is fine, but I'm not
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You're right that I'm not very familiar with the music scene in Asia. However, a category for performers deemed to have suitable looks and marketability sounds mildly at odds with BLP. Isn't that essentially a way for us to mark certain people as more famous than their talent alone warrants? When
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as all of these are promoted and described as "idol singers" or "idols" in hundreds of thousands of reliable, third-party articles in their respective languages and in hundreds (if not thousands) of
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Agree with the argument that idols are a specific type of celebrity marketed in a certain way. There is a
Japanese term for it that is seperate from singer and actor, it has nothing to do with the number of fans they have. Here is a rough translation of the definition of idol from the JPN wiki,
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Western bias. All of the examples the nominator used were Western singers, none of whom appear in the nominated categories. This is a very Asian topic, so trying to use Western examples as reasons for deletion is absurd. Idol singers are a very
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follow this trend, the articles are largely about the singing and acting career of these persons, not about them being marketed. Idols categories have been assigned despite the fact that there is almost nothing in the articles about marketing.
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they will have? I guess we could add some degree of objectivity by requiring that the production company has publicly admitted to not emphasizing the music of a musician they hired. Also, if there's a word for this that is uniquely
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already exist. Once the individuals formerly in idol categories have been moved, these company categories could be put into "Talent agencies who use idol recruitment" or something like that.
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singer, and not every singer in those countries qualifies as an "idol". The nominator appears to not be familiar with the topic based on the nom statement. ···
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