[Oshi No Ko]
| First few notes are incredibly catchy and captivating, which means everything. Even if you skip openings, those few notes will leave an impression. |
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| I was wondering the same thing but after hearing so many songs that I couldn't justify their popularity I eventually just accepted that my taste in weeb music isn't exactly aligned with the mainstream. |
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| It's poppy, it's catchy, it's a popular singer, and a pretty good show too. |
| It's so generic. Then again most of the popular songs of today are very mediocre. |
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| The song itself is a banger It’s well-crafted, catchy, and fits seamlessly with the anime’s themes and story ig that’s why the song blew up; sometimes the internet naturally highlights bangers ✨ |
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Spunkert said:
It's so generic. Then again most of the popular songs of today are very mediocre.
It's so generic. Then again most of the popular songs of today are very mediocre.
Your account is dedicated to hating modern stuff. So, that you think that modern music sucks isn't a surprise.
| @Infernalization I like some modern stuffs. But music nowadays just sounds like noises to my ears. |
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Spunkert said: @Infernalization I like some modern stuffs. But music nowadays just sounds like noises to my ears. It's sad, we have to adapt to the world changing around us over time, including musical trends and others Even if we don't like certain trends, we shouldn't dismiss them entirely either It takes all sorts, haha! |
| They have pretty faces, and after years and years the sound they've made is still muzak to my ears, so they must have learned something under their sleeves, after all. And they live with straights who tell them they were kings, so it's another given. |
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| Because the song's a banger - of course this is subjective and opinions for each person are different. On top of that, the lyrics tell the story of what an idol has to go through each and every day for their job (yes, real life idols too) really well |
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Mattenan said: Now don't get me wrong, I don't think it's a bad song by all means, in fact, I think it's a nice OP that represents Oshi No Ko well, but sometimes, I don't think it's worthy of being considered the greatest anime song of all time, espically judging from it's views on Youtube. There are many anime songs I can name that I think are better than it in a way. What's your honest opinion on it in regards to why it's so popular and does it really deserves more than a hundred million views on Youtube? It’s a combination of a lot of reasons. It is the opening of the most popular anime series of its year that happened to be a series that people from all genre fandoms ALL watched. Not only action Shounen fans, not only slice of life fans, not only idol fans, not only suspense fans. Because of this it already had more exposure than the openings of other popular anime. Yoasobi has been on a hot streak the last 5 or so years and a lot of the way they compose is in line with what Gen Z likes in modern music, and this was their most “American-sounding” song to date. There is a dance associated with it, and it went viral on social media, even among people who haven’t watched the anime or even people that don’t watch anime at all. Hope this answers your question, it’s mainly just the exposure thing. |
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| Because Yoasobi had already been popular by the time “Idol” was released. |
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| For instance, you know that anime that’s called “Fireworks… blah blah blah” (I forgot the name, sorry(… Anyway, Uchiage Hanabi. Its ending theme by Kenshi Yonezu has, if I’m not wrong, about 500 mil views on YouTube but the anime itself, however, isn’t that popular, let alone highly acclaimed. That’s unrelated but anyway. So, the formula is something like this: popular show, not so popular artist = boost to the artist’s popularity; popular show, popular artist = synergy effect (basically, that’s what happened here); obscure show, popular artist = no popularity boost or only the song gains views; obscure show, obscure artist = no effect. |
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| Its not bad, the lyrics fits in very well although I would prefer the beaststars opening over idol but that's just me. |
| From what I understand this song was extremely popular in Japan. I've heard personal accounts from friends that this song was being played in public areas a lot. The song is good too, so doesn't surprise me that people picked up on it. + the OP / music video is good so makes for a double kill. Yoasobi is awesome, I like them quite a bit. This may be a reach but we didn't really get much Ai Hoshino in the anime for... Obvious reasons. The music video is basically all about her so that might have something to do with it. |
| Besides that song itself being pretty good, the anime adaptation of Oshi no Ko is guaranteed to be a success. The manga was good and already had a huge following that was created by the mangaka who made Kaguya-sama, big names from the industry were attached to the project, the music done by very prominent artists, and oh god the amount of promotion and advertising they put into this show. Billboards, collaborations, social media, and even a Memcho vtuber for god's sake. It's not surprising that the OP itself got a lot of success in return with it becoming YOASOBI's highest viewed video on youtube. |
Mattenan said: I don't think it's worthy of being considered the greatest anime song of all time, espically judging from it's views on Youtube. If that's how you judge songs then the GOAT would be Uchiage Hanabi from Fireworks with >610M views. |
| If a hundred million people watch it - then it deserves the views it's getting. |
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| pretty much everything that could be said has been said already - but if you want to get some more background on what exactly musically is going on that makes Idol so catchy with huge mass appeal check out the reaction video by a channel called DrumRollTony on YT - he's a trained musician and band director, really breaks down the details of songs and even gets into musical theory on occasion |
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