Tagged: Morning Musume

Seeing Red

Kaede Kaga Announces Her Graduation From Morning Musume. Morning Musume 13th generation member Kaede Kaga has announced her decision to graduate upon the completion of the group’s fall tour this November. While it seems to be out of left field at first glance, it’s really not when you consider her position in current day Morning Musume, as well as the...

Fool’s Golden Era

Morning Musume ’22 – “Dai・Jinsei Never Been Better!” The second song from Morning Musume ’22’s forthcoming 71st single is a bit of a disappointment for me for a number of reasons, but what makes it worse is that its formula is one that I’m usually a sucker for. Upbeat buoyant pop with a hopeful and cheery vibe that channels the...

WHAT?!

Morning Musume ’22 – “Chu Chu Chu Bokura no Mirai” The title of this post is a short, sharp line from the song at hand, delivered with authority by Mei Yamazaki in the second verse. It’s also the reaction of a solid majority of a particular sub-section of the online H!P fandom to the song and its video. I’m not...

H!P’s Wild Rides of March

Whew! That was a crazy March, huh? A new single, an unexpected tear-jerking remake and multiple graduation and new release announcements is a lot to pack into a single month — and we still have 11 days to go. It’s a lot to cover in one post, so I’ll try to be brief, but holy shit this is a lot...

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. If 16th – That’s J-Pop...

H!P Tweet Beat 07/25/2021

It’s been a few weeks, but I’m back on the beat. 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 in H!P over the same time...

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. Social media posts like those being translated above are common whenever...

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. 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 floats a unique possibility: a change...

H!P Tweet Beat – 6/19/2021

I’m gonna try out a new format where I comment on tweets I see from H!P Twitter that interest me beyond a single tweet response. Long Twitter threads tend to be a drag, as pithiness is the coin of Twitter’s realm, so I’ll do my long-form babbling here. I’m of two minds on this: there are times when I’m shocked...

Sweet 16

MORNING MUSUME ’21 – 16th ~That’s J-POP~ The Fukumura Era of Morning Musume (2014-present) has been mostly frustrating for me personally for several reasons. From a production standpoint, their recordings have relied heavily on sounds and techniques established during the Michishige Era (2012-2014), even to this day. I’ve found the catalog during Fuku’s leadership to be spotty compared other eras,...