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#259: The “Godfather Of J-Pop” Assaulted Male Trainees In Exchange For Making Them Stars (Johnny Kitagawa)

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How to Debut With J&A

J&A was known for only wanting pretty boys. That was kind of their aesthetic. They even signed a contract with Warner Brothers, the Warner Brothers. The process that he had is very similar to K-pop nowadays. Sometimes out of a hundred of boys, like 200 boys at audition, only two would become trainees.

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