Wota Wonderings 004

Welcome to Wota Wonderings! We are a group of English-speaking Japanese music bloggers brought together once a month to answer questions posed by johpan. We strive to be creative and entertaining, and we may even shed a bit of new light on interesting musical and cultural topics. Any questions about how we work should be directed to johpan. Don't forget to check out the other posts from this month at the bottom of this post. Enjoy!

Hoping we're not all shallow wotas, imagine your favourite idol (or musical personality) switched bodies with someone you don't find "visually pleasing", would it affect your love for that idol in any way/shape/form?

Sorry joh, I'm shallow. Well a little. If Yaguchi Mari or any other Hello!Project girl weren't "visually pleasing", I'm sure I'd warm up to them. I don't base my judgements off of looks. Most of the time at least. If I see someone like Miss California, for sure I'm going to think they are a stuck-up snob. Thats that.

This brings me to a Korean drama my sister and I watched together. It was called "200 Pounds of Beauty", which I reveiwed here. Our veiw of beauty is horribly distorted. We've all seen horribly airbrushed pictures of H!P girls, we all know their pictures are photoshopped. It's easy for graphic designers to make someones arm fat disappear, or to give someone abs. A majority of us, I myself sometimes, judge too quikly. We need to give people a chance before we make negative assumptions of them.

"Particularly pretty people are particularly ugly people."

-The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants