Singing is a significant part of a fluffy’s development, yes (mummah songs, interaction with siblings and friends), but they’re distinctly not good at it. Maybe they rhyme a few times by accident or coincidence, and maybe the smartest ones rhyme on purpose. But even with that, it’s not gonna be a good song.
So do you think fluffy popstars would advance past an audience of fluffies and small children? There’s also the question of lifespans, as a fluffy will go from young adult to senile in the time it takes a human popstar to age hardly at all.
Probably considering dumb youtube kiddie channels even with adult hosts having gazillion subs. Also baby shark doodoo is an international hit.
Also reminds me of one of my fav comics on here Pop star fluffies Part 1 (by Peaches)
Don’t take my response as criticism, it’s a good idea (that has kinda been done before but that’s fine).
Just know that the idea enrages me which is fine in this community.
This is where you make up something just plausible enough to where the reader can suspend their disbelief and enjoy the ride.
Perhaps some musical fluffies go viral on YT as a joke at first, which makes some suits somewhere think they’re the next big thing. They pump cash into advertising and merchandising. This makes the fluffy ‘popstars’ seem even more famous than they really are.
And then the fad dies. What happens to the fluffies?
Would be funny if it started as a “what what in the butt” kinda thing degrading the fluffy but evolves into an actual genuine following and serious performances.
When you do your research for this, look into the pop idol industry and how replaceable and mistreated the girls can be. (My writer friend recommends Perfect Blue if you’re interested in this.)
Amp that industry dark side up to 11 with the ‘stars’ having no human or even animal rights, and enjoy yourself.
I’ve thought about writing on this topic too (fluffies in the music industry are part of my story Rhythm & Blues & Fluffies, but maybe something with it more focal in the future).
A number of ideas and scenarios have come to mind, one off the top of my head is fluffy managers breeding identical-looking and identically-trained fluffies to have as spares. If a pop star fluffy does something dumb and gets killed, it doesn’t tank the whole business and you just secretly swap it out for another. Or even for more minor things, if it gets exhausted during a concert, swap in a look-alike during a costume change, etc.
See that’s the problem. Community Posts needs to have it’s name changed to “Ideas Guys” because that’s all it is. These threads are one of two things either some dude screaming his headcanon at us in an attempt to convince people to use it because he has no faith in it themselves to take the risk writing it or someone teasing an idea they have no faith in to either drum up support early or have the audience do the heavy lifting. I say this to you and everyone who does this with the utmost respect and a little bit of shit; STOP BEING A FUCKING COWARD. Have some goddamn faith in your ability to write and ability to get people to read, relying on your audience for ideas is always a bad move. Yes I get writers block and I understand the worry of putting something out there and nobody giving a damn but for the love of all that’s good have faith in yourself that you can do it and if it doesn’t work fuck em you tried that’s more than someone like me has done here
I do. Every word written here is completely useless to me because I am both fully confident in my writing, and fully intend to write. I can only assume you’re projecting. Asking for ideas from fellow writers is normal and fine, and I’m not going to pretend your frustration is at-all justified. Sorry.
The only viable way I can see it is if they were idols on FluffTV and are treated similar to the Asian idol industry. For example, the fluffy idol group “Singeh Fwens” airs every Tuesday for a new live concert pipelined right to your fluffies to listen. The group consist of 3 fluffies one red one blue one green. Every month or so one of the fluffies is different still the primary color maybe the mane is different or their an unicorn vs a Pegasus, little things that only the human would really notice but to a fluffy it’s easily ignored. Then optionally you could have the industrial abuse style of the idol industry dumped onto a fluffy lap
I will say it is a bit justified, but also that the frustration is not aimed specifically at you. Out of the past 20 community posts, posted over the past 12 days, 12 of them have been soliciting ideas. That’s one idea post a day! The guy that posted most of them had a similar explanation that he didn’t actually need the advice and just wanted to foster discussion, but … if you find the responses to be useless then aren’t you just wasting our time? We respond out of a desire to help, not because we like tossing ideas directly in a shredder.
That said: write. Planning to write is an easy eternity project, you have to actually get started. Waiting for opinions and constructive critique on a vague concept won’t get you anywhere.
(I have no thoughts on the validity of fluffies as pop stars. Putting them in frilly dresses sounds fun.)
When you do your research for this, look into the pop idol industry and how replaceable and mistreated the girls can be. (My writer friend recommends Perfect Blue if you’re interested in this.)
Are we talking about Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue here? It’s got nothing on how replaceable and mistreated the girls are in the pop idol industry - it’s about a former idol trying to become a serious actress, the lengths she will go to achieve it and the obsessive fandom around the industry.
Well…people who don’t listen to much pop music might check out Fluffpop just out of curiosity, and might appreciate it as comedy for a while. As long as it was done very carefully, autotuned enough to keep people from shutting it off to save their sanity but left goofy sounding enough to be hilariously bad, it might work. And careful lyrics chosen so they’re mostly pronouncable but every now and then a word that’s super funny in fluffspeak, yeah, I can see it as deliberate comedy, honestly. A little satirical too, maybe.