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NXT Takeover: The End & Babymetal

6K views 55 replies 33 participants last post by  Impeccable Sin 
#1 ·
:mark::mark::mark:


 
#6 ·
They know exactly who they're appealing to. The majority of the NXT fanbase is such a stereotype that it's not even funny. The kind of people who try to drift away from the norm - not so much that their hobbies and things they like are "weird" but just alternative. NXT, popular J-Pop, bad metalcore bands, all go hand-in-hand with the "I-think-I'm-different" culture of the west.

The only things here that are worth noting is how much of an accurate stereotype this is for most NXT fans, and how WWE know that. Smart businesspeople.
 
#9 ·
I like The Struts, so I was stoked to see their song used for Takeover London.

Babymetal is ok I guess.
 
#22 ·
Let's get real here. NXT themes are faux-alternative. They might not be Demi Lovato levels of conventional mainstream, but I'd argue they're pretty fucking mainstream. I mean, Gimmie Chocolate has over 52 million youtube views. Babymetal is pop, and not even alt-pop. Just pop. Alt-pop indicates some level of artistic merit while adopting some level of pop sensibility, and it's hard to argue BM has any artistic merit whatsoever. Especially given the nature of JapIdol culture. It's a corporate cash-grab, and as such, I guess maybe that makes it appropriate for an NXT theme?

Their choice in NXT themes has proven to be "alternate" (inverted commas) only to the extent that they aren't really alternative in a real sense at all. Maybe I'm being to cynical. I think i probably am.

Still, Oxi's point absolutly has merit, though it's awkward to address it myself as in theory I'm absolulty in the wider "alternative" bracket. I guess I'm in the "hipster-I-think-I'm-cooler-than-you" bracket? I imagine that somewhere out there there's a group of people listening to a naked lesbian, behind a frosted glass screen, beating a twix against a birdhouse containing a frightened family of wrens, to a 7/4 time signature. And I aspire to be one of them someday.
 
#23 ·
I imagine that somewhere out there there's a group of people listening to a naked lesbian, behind a frosted glass screen, beating a twix against a birdhouse containing a frightened family of wrens, to a 7/4 time signature.
That's so 2011. What rock-inspired art-deco piece have you been living under?
 
#30 ·
These discussions about cash grabbing, being alternative and metal/pop :eva

What's wrong with it being a cash grab :shrug you could argue that all successful thing, not only music, is an instance of being a cash grab.

As far as I know the Kami band are having a blast playing with the girls and the girls are having the time of their life learning more about metal.
 
#32 ·
There's nothing particularly wrong with being a "cash grab". However, I don't see Babymetal as one. Nobody really expected them to succeed when they were first formed, or had high expectations.

It's easy to say that they look like a cash grab now, but that really ignores their origins.
 
#44 ·
Should be called nxt takeover rematch cause all I see is a bunch of rematches. Seriously? How long has this Balor/Joe feud been? Closing in on a year soon. Nakamura/Aries should be good tho
 
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