In the Hello! Project's typical feast-or-famine fashion, four H!P related clips have dropped on YouTube in the past five days: two official solo covers and two very unofficial radio rips. The dam is about to break on H!P content, and the first dribbles through the cracks are solo covers from Juice=Juice n00b Kisaki Ebata and … Continue reading Solo Clips and Tsubaki Rips
No Masaki
Masaki Sato Announces Her Graduation From Morning Musume. The lack of content out of the Hello! Project since the release of Angerme's 29th single back in June finally pushed me into one of my extended breaks last month. Even the afterglow of SoloFes! 2 was short lived for me, and while the announcement of a … Continue reading No Masaki
H!P Tweet Beat 8/15/2021
I still have tabs open from July, so might as well well get back on the beat so I can close them already. https://twitter.com/YukiNozofan/status/1420790419202486280 https://twitter.com/vinsukun/status/1420569316542533632 Seeing lots of tweets like this in H!P Twitter recently, and it's not surprising. The last proper release was Angerme's "Hakkiri Shiyou ze / Oyogenai Mermaid / Aisare Route A … Continue reading H!P Tweet Beat 8/15/2021
Thank you, JPope
Re-imagining ⑮ Thank you, too. 2017 marked the begining of the MMMAGA movement -- Make Morning Musume Albums Great Again -- which kicked off with ⑮ Thank you, too. Four years later we were treated to 16th - That's J-Pop, which I lauded as the best MM long-player since No. 5 in my review here. … Continue reading Thank you, JPope
H!P Tweet Beat 07/25/2021
It's been a few weeks, but I'm back on the beat. https://twitter.com/JPN_ENG_Kanda/status/1417603749808263168 I feel like I should be more surprised by this than I am, but it almost feels like Morning Musume has remained unchanged for even longer to me. Maybe it has something to do with all of the changes that have happened elsewhere … Continue reading H!P Tweet Beat 07/25/2021
Minding The Gap
Up-Front and the Hello! Project have filled the gap in their release schedule with solo videos from two of their more popular idols and two full-length videos for ad campaigns. Let's start with the most recent and work our way backwards. Morning Musume and H!P leader Mizuki Fukumura gets her first proper (digital) solo release, … Continue reading Minding The Gap
In With The n00bs
I've avoided writing about the new members selected for Juice=Juice and Tsubaki Factory because I didn't really have too much to say in the immediate wake of the announcement, but now that we have some audition footage, I have something I can sink my teeth into. First off, I'm stunned at how many girls were … Continue reading In With The n00bs
H!P Tweet Beat 7/5/2021
H!P Twitter is about to explode in about an hour, so let's see if I can clear some tabs before the New Unit bomb drops. AKB vs MM'21 on The Music Day show was the big story for the last days of the week, so let's get to it. https://twitter.com/poutybarrett/status/1411557973940314116 Social media posts like those … Continue reading H!P Tweet Beat 7/5/2021
H!P Tweet Beat – 6/27/2021
Let's wrap up the week in H!P Twitter, or at least my H!P Twitter feed. Lots of talk about future graduation. https://twitter.com/ainogundan/status/1406953032911405059 Impending Morning Musume graduations isn't something that any MM/H!P fan hasn't thought about for a while now. In fact, it gets brought up every time a different group graduates a member, but Anna … Continue reading H!P Tweet Beat – 6/27/2021
Sayonara Kasahara
Here we go again. https://twitter.com/hipnewsservice/status/1406945940037058564 I feel like I might have jinxed this group when I used the headline "Angerme v2.0 (stable)" for the review of their triple-PV drop last month. It really did feel like Angerme had finally stabilized after losing six members in two years, with mid-tier members seizing new opportunities to shine, … Continue reading Sayonara Kasahara