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Popular singer Ado headlined a joint festival featuring a lineup of K-POP artists and performed ‘Odoru Pompokorin,’ sparking discussion on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyo G” board. Thread posts explained that the post-headliner “finale” segment — a photo-and-greeting session that’s usually a fixture of these festivals — was reportedly scrapped at Ado’s request, leaving the K-POP fans who’d stuck around specifically for that finale frustrated. Commenters were split on whether the blame for the song choice and set structure fell on Ado herself or on the event organizers, and many also brought up the fact that tickets cost 60,000 yen.
They packed this whole lineup into Belluna Dome, and the headliner Ado just sang ‘Odoru Pompokorin’ and walked off… hilarious (not funny at all)
Source: x.com / original post here
What people said
Wolverine lmao
Same demographic as VTuber fans
Oil and water with the K-POP crowd
Is that true?
Is there actual data on that somewhere?
Don't know much about K-POP culture, but apparently there isn't one.
Also, the photo time with the performers got suddenly cancelled for every group, supposedly because of Ado's efforts to keep her face from being photographed.
K-POP just doesn't have that kind of thing
Would it have been fine if she'd sung 'Usseewa' instead of 'Odoru Pompokorin'?
If she was a secret guest, drawing power doesn't even factor in, does it?
have had weak ticket sales lately, so they've been experimenting, bringing in Japanese idols and the like
Ado was probably just there as a drawing card too
I mean, nobody's realistically showing up just to hear 'Odoru Pompokorin'
Ado shows up at a K-POP festival for some reason ← guest spots happen occasionally, so fine
Ado is the headliner
Ado gets the longest stage time of anyone
The already-shabby "cage" stage setup (Ado famously performs hidden inside a box/cage to conceal her identity) ends up even smaller and shabbier than usual
For the headline slot, she picks 'Odoru Pompokorin'
The photo session ("finale") that normally follows the headliner every year gets cut at Ado's request. (Apparently about half the K-POP crowd comes just for that)
The K-POP fans who gritted their teeth and stayed to the end for that finale are furious
Ah, so that's what happened
Yeah, that's just straight-up bad
Thank god for people who spell it out like this
She just took the gig when it came her way
By that logic Nene-chan and Ui-chan wouldn't be getting flamed either
but still, the artist choosing 'Odoru Pompokorin' herself is just not it
Put in terms you'd understand, it's like the headliner of an anime-song festival being LDH doing a dance routine instead (LDH — a Japanese talent agency known for dance/performance groups like EXILE)
LDH actually does sing anime songs though
Whoever booked this has some nerve — though if it happened at one of my own shows I'd become a lifelong hater
Paying 60k for a festival with acts you don't even care about, lol, that's nuts
60,000 YEN?!?!?!?!
All the more reason to be mad at the organizers instead of Ado
It's a song that represents Japan, one Reiwa-generation kids even list among their favorite Showa-era tunes — what's wrong with it?
Ado's done overseas tours too though
If it was her own call, that's rough, but if the organizers decided it, that's kind of sad for her
Normally it'd be the booker, but the K-POP industry structure is so different I honestly have no idea
Doesn't she have any K-POP-style songs of her own to use instead?
Apparently 'Odoru Pompokorin' was originally a cover of a Korean pop song
Because it's a song literally every Japanese person has heard, Ado fan or not
Background and Key Points of This Story
‘Odoru Pompokorin’ is a beloved staple song spanning generations, best known as performed by B.B. Queens for the opening of the anime ‘Chibi Maruko-chan,’ which began airing in 1990. In this case, the discussion centered less on the song choice itself and more on the fact that the “finale” segment — the photo-and-greeting session customarily held after the headliner at joint K-POP shows — was reportedly cancelled at Ado’s request, which posters cited as the main source of frustration for fans who stayed until the end. One post in the thread claimed ‘Odoru Pompokorin’ was originally a cover of a Korean pop song, but no source was given, so this should not be taken as confirmed fact. The thread also never settled whether the decision over the performance and set structure lay with Ado herself or with the festival’s organizers, ending with opinions still divided over where the responsibility lies.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “Ado joins a K-POP festival for some reason → sings Odoru Pompokorin as headliner, chaos ensues.”
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