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...Despite its combination of beauty and talent, the band didn't prove a hit with Chinese audiences. Their luck changed only after Kazuma Tomoto, a Warner Music executive in Tokyo, saw a 12 Girls Band concert video and decided to import them to Japan. "I'd been thinking that Japan needed a new, energetic sound to jolt it out of its funk," says Tomoto. "The second I saw them, I knew they were going to be huge." His bosses weren't convinced, so Tomoto quit his job and started his own music label. It paid off: Tomoto's Platia Entertainment...
AMERICAN IDOL It takes talent, a bio and a whiff of Machiavelli to win this reality-show crown...
...should they? Idol watchers take these questions seriously. After the talented Jennifer Hudson was booted in April, there were charges of racism (Hudson is African American) and vote fixing. USA Today editorialized, "Will this prime-time scandal further sour the public on other elections?" One suspects democracy will survive no matter what happens on the May 26 finale. But America's No. 1 reality show--up 19% over its red-hot 2003 ratings--is more than just a contest. It's a weekly interrogation by America of its tastes. We watch. We vote. Sometimes, we get angry at our voting...
Perhaps too well. Idol was created in Britain by music executive Simon Fuller not just to make hit TV but also to find lasting talent for him to sign. So far the breakout star of this Idol season is William Hung, famous for butchering Ricky Martin's She Bangs at an audition; his debut CD sold nearly 38,000 copies in its first week. Jackson says he sometimes is worried that Idol the reality show will undercut Idol the music search, which in its first two seasons produced both salable talents and high ratings. "Kelly Clarkson was great," says Jackson...
Then again, when's the last time you bought a CD by someone you didn't like, just because you felt you should support their talent? The voting on Idol, says Fuller, represents "people power," just as record-buying does. "A lot of music purists don't understand that," he says. "The biggest stars are not always the best. Elvis had charisma. He was a good singer, but not the best ever...