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Popu Lady is a five-member Taiwanese girl group based in Taiwan. The group was formed in 2012 and is managed by HIM International Music. The name of the group stands for "popular lady", which expresses the desire of the group to gain popularity through its songs and to give a girly and mature look at the same time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Taiwan Mandopop girl group Popu Lady out to please )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Taiwanese girl group Popu Lady wants to follow in label mate S.H.E's footsteps )〕 Since its debut in 2012, the group has much been criticized for lacking real talent and ability to sing as well as for having been put together just because of the beauty of its members.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Popu Lady impresses with a cover of "First Dream" )〕 == History == After training for a year in singing and dancing, Popu Lady debuted on 14 December 2012 with an extended play, ''Keep Keep Loving,'' and a homonymous song, being a cover of "Pretty Boy", originally recorded by the Norwegian female group M2M.〔 ''Keep Keep Loving'' entered the top 10 best-selling chart in Taiwan when it hit the stores,〔 and the title track's music video reached 200,000 views in six days and more than 800,000 after one month.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Waterfall's thirteen year old "Pretty Boy" goes Chinese )〕 In 2012, Popu Lady also sang "Feel Me" with Jiro Wang for TV series ''KO One Return'' soundtrack. The group released a second EP, ''Popu Future'', on 13 September 2013, and a third one titled ''More'' on 22 August 2014. It also sang "Honey" (蜜糖) for the soundtrack of a TV series, ''Say I Love You''. The group hosted a number of variety shows, including ''East Network Pop U Show'' (東網 Pop U秀) from 11 August 2014 to 17 July 2015, and occasionally ''Love Blog'' (初戀誌). Many of its songs were featured in TV series, as ''Spring Love'', ''Fall in Love with Me'', and ''Go, Single Lady''. On 7 August 2015, the group released a digital single, "All About Him" (妳說他), for the official soundtrack of a 2015 feature film, ''Our Times''. The lyrics edition of the music video was released three days later, while the official version was uploaded to the label official YouTube channel on 20 October. On 23 September 2015, HIM International Music launched the campaign "Get Out of Popu Lady" to eliminate a member of the group and make it more competitive on the market. For this purpose, an online poll was held from 2 October to 20 November 2015 to allow the public to vote one of the five members of the group out. At the same time, a reality called ''Get Out of Popu Lady Knockout'' (Get Out Of Popu Lady淘汰賽) was launched, in which the girls displayed their skills in a series of challenges to survive. Netizens believed the poll was merely a viral marketing technique to promote the group and called for its cessation, using the symbol "5-1 = 0". On 15 October 2015, the poll website was hacked and the voting was temporarily blocked. The result of the poll was announced on 22 November during a promotional activity of the group's fourth extended play, ''Gossip Girls'', previously released on 20 November. According to the announcement, as Dayuan and Yushan got a parity, none of the five members was removed from the group. The activity has heavily been criticized by the public as being a fraud, saying such a result was predictable and unsurprising. In the meantime, three songs from the fourth extended play were released as singles: "Excuse Me" was released on 28 September 2015, "Popu OK Boom" (POPU OK繃) on 12 October, and "Don't Say Goodbye" (我不要 Don't Say Goodbye) on 27 October. The music video for the latter was released the following day. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Popu Lady」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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