If this is the only thing to come of the Morning Musume 20th anniversary, well, I’ll still be disappointed, but this is a surprise. Just watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThUHrBnBBnQ This makes me happier than this guy right here: I can’t put into words how happy I am that Asuka was able to put aside her differences with H!P (and the other four...
And another on bites the dust. Kobushi Factory’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year continues apace with the announcement of the retirement of Rena Ogawa today (Japanese). She had been diagnosed with anxiety disorder back in July, around the same time it was discovered she had been dating a boy (OMFG, a 17 year-old girl dating! How will we...
The first song of Morning Musume ’17’s new single has been radio-ripped to Youtube. If you haven’t heard it yet, here’s your big opportunity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px4rBfIGIeA I know this is only half the song, but I really hate this. It’s musical pabulum. The arrangement feels mailed-in and directionless, which is odd for a Tsunku production. It sounds like they were going...
No, not that “I Wish”. Henkka over at Wota In Translation did this quick-and-dirty mashup of Tsubaki Factory’s “Shuukatsu Sensation” and Stevie Wonder’s “I Wish”. He had to lower Stevie’s voice substantially to match the key, but this is pretty clever. You nasty boy. I love that people are re-mixing and mashing-up H!P songs again.
The latest episode of Hello! Station is out, and it includes footage of Juice=Juice n00bs Danbara Ruru and Yanagawa Nanami recording their lines for “fiesta! fiesta!” Yanagawa is first, and she’s as solid as we were told she was. Nothing special, but above average for an idol. Ruru, however, appears to be even better than advertised, and her hype was...
We got a taste of the new Juice=Juice 7-nin lineup on Youtube today, and they’re not coddling the n00bs. Performing their upcoming digital release “fiesta! fiesta!” at the Hello! Gathering Summer Tour, the first solo line goes to new member Danbara Ruru, and she sounds great. Neither she nor Yanagawa Nanami look at all out of place, and honestly, they...
Buried in the deep recesses of an old hard drive is this remarkable fan remix of Morning Musume’s “Roman ~MY DEAR BOY~”, which is really a three-way mash-up of MM, Namie Amuro (“Strobe”) and HALCALI (“Tandem”). It’s a stunning work that represents, in my opinion, the absolute peak of the fertile Morning Musume remix scene of the mid-00s. I never liked...
You really have to hear this, because it’s seriously great. https://twitter.com/selder16/status/889104766462173184 I went off on a mini Tweet-storm about how this made me nostalgic for the early-to-mid 00s heyday of the Morning Musume remix scene. If you don’t remember it, it was pretty big on the internet, to the point where at its height it seemd like a new remix...
Sorry for the lull in posting new content. I’m in the process of moving out-of-state, and it’s taking up most of my time. As a gift, here’s a video of perhaps the most fantastically ridiculous Morning Musume performance ever: Miki Fujimoto and Hitomi Yoshizawa doing “Rainbow Pink”: Yossie’s abject failure to pull of the moe affectation is the punch line,...
It dropped this morning, and it’s very… white. The one “white theme” song/PV that is seemingly required on every H!P release has become predictable to the point where fans have been openly mocking it for over a year now. I’ve seen some call it “lazy”, and I can’t disagree. It doesn’t even really fit this song, IMO Anyway, here’s the...
Hmmm… And now Momona is leading ME:I I suspect HP scraping the bottom of the barrel is why ambitious talents…
Well! Fukumura is graduating, but only at the END of this year - LOL!
Fukumura and her cahoots are doing everything they possibly can to prolong their idoling careers. There's a certain amount of…
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