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He who climbs the ladder must begin at the very bottom
— Ittetsu Takeda
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Another day another eight hours of singing and dancing. Twas the life of an idol. Sing, dance, and get paid.
That's how simple people make their life out to be, it's socially draining for sure, and it's hard. It's hard thinking that your band is going to be dropped if you don't perform well, it's horrible to think that your only source of income isn't as stable as you once thought.
Climbing up from the bottom is hard. Between all of the teachers you see and all three years you go through just to make sure your voice is perfect and you don't make a mistake in the choreography.
I can now for sure, talk about many students that I've had that have been perfected as if they were machines.
Recognising notes after hearing them, learning choreography after watching it just once.
These people are incredible. They can sing steadily whilst dancing and they can rap faster than your heartbeat.
My students, people I've taught whose life and everything they've worked for could go to ruin and could slip away in the blink of the eye.
That's what the true idol life is like. Not any of the myths that you see in fan-cams
And sometimes things do collapse, so here's this story of a group, a group with some of my students.
This group was called Haikyuu! And they had a fairly big band, it consisted of 5 main bands; Karasuno (made out of 12 males), Aoba Johsai (Made out of 9), Fukurodani (Made out of 8), Nekoma (Made out of 10), and Shiratorizawa (Made out of 10).
They used to stick to these bands but then things changed and they started doing collaborations. It started as the duo dubbed 'UshiOi' with their song titled 'You Should've Come to Shiratorizawa' and extending to multiple groups, such as the 'Pretty Setter Squad' and the 'Captain Squad'.
They worked for a company called anime records, and things go downhill for them in this story.
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Sugawara Koushi received his paycheck, he was in the middle of the shared living space for Karasuno and he was excited to see what it had in it.
Suga counted the money.