selected from 500 candidates knowing
idols one group and a combined net worth
of minus 1.5 million dollars mr. pants
newest pop group once in a while you
hear a concept so ridiculous
you have to slam your fingers in the
door just to check you actually awake in
such a situation recently arose when I
heard of a new idol group formed of
girls chosen for their debt problems
singing and dancing their way out 127
million yen of debt the girls will be
working under the producers bold premise
but even people with big debts have big
dreams which is strange for me because I
just assumed people with big debts
couldn't afford to have dreams
the qualifications for joining the group
involved being female being aged between
18 and 35 and being in considerable debt
Babar has never never been higher
and naturally fans will be able to keep
attractive each member's cumulative
deaths racked up through a variety of
ways including bankrupt parents student
loans and of course too many trips to
amusement parks and spas and once the
group leader has only managed to rack up
a pitiful 64 thousand dollars of debt
through student loans the group's most
indebted member mummy this is a will be
looking to pay off nine hundred fifteen
thousand dollars of debt after a
parent's business went bankrupt although
if the parents business hadn't gone
bankrupt then she would be in the group
so every cloud has a silver lining it
doesn't and in an already saturated idle
big market key to the group's success
will be to think of a name that stands
out and sends a powerful message
unfortunately the girls have that
covered they're about to unveil the new
group name and no doubt it will be
something unique and relevant to the
overall concept
they'll call themselves the margins
because what they're doing in essence is
like imitation butter the idea behind
the margarine it's spreadable and our
Marjorie the Marjorie's one thing that
makes the Marjorie is a bit different
from other idol groups is the rules in
other idol groups members have to abide
by strict no dating clauses in order to
maintain an innocent image for the fans
and the world witnessed the consequences
of breaking such rules last year when
Minami Minegishi a member of Japan's
biggest girl group literally and
metaphorically Japan's biggest girl
group akb48 was seen leaving a building
with a guy and went on to apologize for
shaving off their hand and producing a
high-definition apology filled with a
river of tears and despair but luckily
for the Marjorie's the only rule they
have is to sell ten thousand records
outside of that they're free to do
whatever they want i whilst that's
undeniably good from a human rights
perspective
some critics viewed it negatively
believing it will ruin the traditional
role model imagery their company's an
idol group especially considering the
emphasis is on exploiting their
sexuality for the sole purpose of
clearing debts however once again to
quote the producers they believe the
girls have nothing to lose and their
shot at redemption will enable them to
work harder than other idols which is
absolutely true they have nothing to
lose except their dignity and even more
money to me though the concept still
seems a bit wrong I like to think people
start bands for a passion a passion for
music so the best thing about this band
is the simplicity I'll just use my mouth
my voice production and you can do the
singing you can be the lead singer yeah
very good and the best thing is we don't
even need any lyrics I'll just turn up
to start doing boys percussion we'll
pick a topic and you can just wrap very
good read slap like
- gasps - is that a thing - make the
food
that's the sit down pencils
yeah
to me though the biggest question still
remains whether or not they'll be able
to pay off their debts although it is
worth remembering which Japan has the
second biggest music market in the world
after the US a market where 85 percent
of sales still come from CDs and current
popular idol groups such as akb48 often
encouraged fans to go out by more than
one copy rating sales wow I have a money
but if the margins can convince their
new fans
if such fans exist to go out and buy
their new album in December titled
cooking goodbye debt heaven there may be
maybe the title of the album might
become around the Seng goodbye debt
heaven an album that certainly doesn't
beat around the bush with regards to its
motives then again I love things that
are plum and to the point that's
probably why my favorite group is
chubbiness an actual group called
chubbiness filled with girls who are
specially selected for being overweight
and the members of chubbiness are so fat
it's incomprehensible that is if the
definition of fat was not to be faster
to the chubbiness is a bedtime story for
another time just be sure to go out and
buy more than one copy of goodbye debt
heaven when it comes out this December
because those a student debts and those
spas
they don't pay for themselves well what
do you think about the margarine is this
a group to get excited about and what
should they have been cool and what's
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