I'm giggled and jumped around after hearing this:
"Sexy and sassy groups like 4Minute, Girls Generation and 2NE1 are booming in Asia and have their own sights set on international success.
Morning Musume themselves admit to being fans; "I really like them very much," says Takahashi, before bursting into a refrain from 2NE1's hit single Lollipop with Lin Lin. "She dances perfectly to it," Lin Lin says of Takahashi, before revealing that Takahashi dances to Korean pop regularly in her dressing room."
I hope they like f(x)!! It'd make my day, especially Linlin or Sayu.
Showing posts with label Morning Musume. Show all posts
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7/31/10
7/25/10
How mean
From Sayumi's blog:
"I tried my best to try to get a cute angle though (lol) ↑↑
or well
you can say whatever you want about Sayumi today
but you can’t bully me with “Today’s not the only day your face is swollen!”
That’d be just too mean (;_;)"
I can't believe how many people like to pick on her. Such cruelty, you don't have to like Sayu but at least RESPECT her.
She likes Ogawa Mana <3
"I tried my best to try to get a cute angle though (lol) ↑↑
or well
you can say whatever you want about Sayumi today
but you can’t bully me with “Today’s not the only day your face is swollen!”
That’d be just too mean (;_;)"
I can't believe how many people like to pick on her. Such cruelty, you don't have to like Sayu but at least RESPECT her.
She likes Ogawa Mana <3
6/12/10
Vote yo
SayuNii is having another poll this time with Linlin, she's losing. Help her: http://sayunii.wordpress.com/
Check the side bar! Linlin will death glare you until you do it.
Check the side bar! Linlin will death glare you until you do it.
6/9/10
Hello! Store USA Package #1
I get back today to find this lovely thing sitting in the clerk's desk at the hotel I'm at. He's like "Here you go, ma'am. It's awefully big, what's in there?" I'm like I have no clue, i actually forgot what was coming, I knew it wasn't the package I was expecting from Hello Store. I get inside sit on the small couch and cut it open with a steak knife, only to cut myself when it slipped along the tape on one side.
After that moment of terror, I was able to properly sit down and open it.
The box came from the post office, unlike my other one which I think due to weight was FedEx'd over. It's somewhere in the country, it says it departed Arizona yesterday morning.
I took a peek inside to see the brown paper padding and the visual book peeking out. All nicely wrapped in bubbles. :3
By this point my camera was giving me problems due to a lack of bright light. So I went at sat at the patio in the floor. I then took out the brown paper to see my order slip and contents attached to a board with purple tape. <3
Deciding to start taking it out of the bubble wrap I noticed a tear, I got worried because I didn't want the visual book to have a dent or something. But all was well.
I took the book out first since it was the biggest, and I was amazed by it's size. Way bigger than standard paper. As I'm writing this it's sitting by my side and I'm still not over how big it is. It's like an 8 x 10 plus the frame that makes it big. Everyone looks good on the cover. Linlin has such a warming smile, I genuinely love her smile. Aika is a sweetie even though she looks a bit strained here. By this point I'm calling Junjun the new Tanaka because her eyes seem off like Tanaka's. Repeatedly. Niigaki looks like she's professional at this by now, just a simple smile. Sayumi also does. Kamei's creeps me out some, I don't care for open mouth smiles for official photos too much. Tanaka looks great, her overbite bothers me a bit, but does give her some extra cuteness. Ai looks forced, and unatural but still looks good. Koharu looks somewhat unhappy and 1/2 smiling, probably because this is one of her last photoshoots.
A little size comparison to the order sheet.
Ai looks great in her longshot pose, very good balance for having a heavy ball above her. And manages to give a great smile. Her outfit is gerat lots of yellow, which is her color. Ai's smile looks more pleasant than the one on the cover.
Niigaki still looks professional and almost bored? She also is wearing alot of her green color. I like the contrast of her stockings and shoes.
Kamei's still creeping me out, in all these pictures she yet to close her mouth. I don't know if she's trying to hard or is really happy. It seems the wardrobe guy broke the color streak because the only orange on her is the bracelet, the bow looks red than orange. I really like those stockings though.
Sayumi is looking cute and the only one to use props, her longshot pose is like she's trying to catch the bouncy balls that might fall on her. Again the color thing was dropped as the only thing pink is her shoes and some jewelry. The stockings are the greatest!
Tanaka's pose is cute, kinda forced but really adorable. Her close up is a bit out of place as everyone was smiling and she's giving off a smirk type smile. It's nice but out of place.
Her close up is nice, no complaints. The longshot is great! I really love the pose, really creative. The only thing is on her left foot her look is coming off slightly and bothers me.
Aika's close up seems awkward, like she's trying to smile really really hard. Or maybe she always does, I don't know I don't pay much attention to her photos. The longshot I like very cute and Aika looks like she actually is having fun.
Yeah, Junjun is the new Tanaka. She looks a bit chubby here, maybe the angle? Cute reguardless, the longshot is okay. Looks a bit odd, like a pose.
Linlin looks amazing!! Her smile is just so indescribable. I just love it. That's what makes her my #2 girl, just a great personality. I could see us being good friends if I ever had met Linlin. The longshot is my favorite among them all. She reminds me of those models that hold up prizes or items for display, like this;
The back is my favorite shot, just so much energy. It seems this is where UFA's good photoshop people went after the wreck of Kimagure Princess. The only things that bothers me is Sayumi's foot overlaps and "hits" Tanaka is the boobs. And Tanaka's arm is in a very wrong spot on Junjun. XD Kamei has yet to close her mouth...
The front of Sayumi's muffler towel looks great so far. I didn't realize towels kinda ruin the image but I still like it.
The towel folded out, with the book to show size. I like it, makes a great piece to put on a wall. :3 I'll have iron it first since it has folds in it.
The photos are nicely padded in cardboard and tied in a rubberband. I'm glad they protect them. I have to wait for the photo albums that were special order to arrive to put them in. I ordered some pages, I have to get more and some 2L ones.
The first set is really great, I was mostly buying this for the awesome pic on the left :) Such a cute pose.
I like the pic on the left here too. Sayumi's pose is just flawless, very sexy.
Overall I was very happy with this order and can't wait until my next one arrives in a few days. That one has tons of items around 12 I think. I was very skeptical about ordering but was proven wrong. If they had a feedback page I'd give them an A+.
After that moment of terror, I was able to properly sit down and open it.
The box came from the post office, unlike my other one which I think due to weight was FedEx'd over. It's somewhere in the country, it says it departed Arizona yesterday morning.
I took a peek inside to see the brown paper padding and the visual book peeking out. All nicely wrapped in bubbles. :3
By this point my camera was giving me problems due to a lack of bright light. So I went at sat at the patio in the floor. I then took out the brown paper to see my order slip and contents attached to a board with purple tape. <3
Deciding to start taking it out of the bubble wrap I noticed a tear, I got worried because I didn't want the visual book to have a dent or something. But all was well.
I took the book out first since it was the biggest, and I was amazed by it's size. Way bigger than standard paper. As I'm writing this it's sitting by my side and I'm still not over how big it is. It's like an 8 x 10 plus the frame that makes it big. Everyone looks good on the cover. Linlin has such a warming smile, I genuinely love her smile. Aika is a sweetie even though she looks a bit strained here. By this point I'm calling Junjun the new Tanaka because her eyes seem off like Tanaka's. Repeatedly. Niigaki looks like she's professional at this by now, just a simple smile. Sayumi also does. Kamei's creeps me out some, I don't care for open mouth smiles for official photos too much. Tanaka looks great, her overbite bothers me a bit, but does give her some extra cuteness. Ai looks forced, and unatural but still looks good. Koharu looks somewhat unhappy and 1/2 smiling, probably because this is one of her last photoshoots.
A little size comparison to the order sheet.
Ai looks great in her longshot pose, very good balance for having a heavy ball above her. And manages to give a great smile. Her outfit is gerat lots of yellow, which is her color. Ai's smile looks more pleasant than the one on the cover.
Niigaki still looks professional and almost bored? She also is wearing alot of her green color. I like the contrast of her stockings and shoes.
Kamei's still creeping me out, in all these pictures she yet to close her mouth. I don't know if she's trying to hard or is really happy. It seems the wardrobe guy broke the color streak because the only orange on her is the bracelet, the bow looks red than orange. I really like those stockings though.
Sayumi is looking cute and the only one to use props, her longshot pose is like she's trying to catch the bouncy balls that might fall on her. Again the color thing was dropped as the only thing pink is her shoes and some jewelry. The stockings are the greatest!
Tanaka's pose is cute, kinda forced but really adorable. Her close up is a bit out of place as everyone was smiling and she's giving off a smirk type smile. It's nice but out of place.
Her close up is nice, no complaints. The longshot is great! I really love the pose, really creative. The only thing is on her left foot her look is coming off slightly and bothers me.
Aika's close up seems awkward, like she's trying to smile really really hard. Or maybe she always does, I don't know I don't pay much attention to her photos. The longshot I like very cute and Aika looks like she actually is having fun.
Yeah, Junjun is the new Tanaka. She looks a bit chubby here, maybe the angle? Cute reguardless, the longshot is okay. Looks a bit odd, like a pose.
Linlin looks amazing!! Her smile is just so indescribable. I just love it. That's what makes her my #2 girl, just a great personality. I could see us being good friends if I ever had met Linlin. The longshot is my favorite among them all. She reminds me of those models that hold up prizes or items for display, like this;
The back is my favorite shot, just so much energy. It seems this is where UFA's good photoshop people went after the wreck of Kimagure Princess. The only things that bothers me is Sayumi's foot overlaps and "hits" Tanaka is the boobs. And Tanaka's arm is in a very wrong spot on Junjun. XD Kamei has yet to close her mouth...
The front of Sayumi's muffler towel looks great so far. I didn't realize towels kinda ruin the image but I still like it.
The towel folded out, with the book to show size. I like it, makes a great piece to put on a wall. :3 I'll have iron it first since it has folds in it.
The photos are nicely padded in cardboard and tied in a rubberband. I'm glad they protect them. I have to wait for the photo albums that were special order to arrive to put them in. I ordered some pages, I have to get more and some 2L ones.
The first set is really great, I was mostly buying this for the awesome pic on the left :) Such a cute pose.
I like the pic on the left here too. Sayumi's pose is just flawless, very sexy.
5/30/10
Seishun Collection :(
PVcheap, outfits are crap (unique but still crap), dance is predictable, and as I've said about the song since day 1: Nanchatte + Genki Pika Pika = Seishun Collection Which is horrible.
Only reason I'm buying this is cause the covers are actually not that bad. Type A & RE are just awesome.
Probably to sell as good as Mikan we're gonna need wota like this guy:
I remember a few pics like this appearing. Everyone' (a term I'm using loosely) did do that, it was either team Love Nanchatte or team Love Kimagure. Overall it seemed like team Hate OGMNI. Myself was none because I liked all, I say stick to whatever is selling. If Nanchatte got sales like that keep up the kind of work, but make it slightly different. (Which can be seen by Shouganai & Nanchatte, both doing records for Musume in the recent years.) Because in the end the idol scene isn't just to please us fans it's for the girls to make earnings. Sure, they could enjoy their work and have fun but the hard facts are it's about making a living for yourself.
Not like I expected much, but the covers kinda gave a false hope. The PV concept was great just putting it together made it cheap and not that great to watch. I've listened to the song 20 times on repeat, and remember nothing from it except the intro. Not exactly the most memorable...
I like quality, alot of people only have known Musume from 2005+ (there is of course people who have longer). When I think the online H!P boom started, myself started in 2003 just before Kei's graduation and I have to say what music is being put out compared to then (I'm never talking sales here, only quality) is nothing. Absolutely nothing, adding the 5th gen so early was the downfall. From there we lost 3 key members (Kei, Maki, Nacchi) not to mention between HSW-Hyokkori Hyoutanjima was the most childish (sans Do it! Now) songs ever. No one complains there, and consider those some of the "best". After Do It! Now, Maki's last, you can clearly see the downward slump after each release, Kaori & Hitomi leaving even made it worse. Only things to spike it were "Kananshimi Twilight" & "Nanchatte Renai".
The last song I ever listened to and loved on first listen was AFOD, pretty much the 1-4 gen suffered as 5-8 came in. The unbalanced age was a big factor, Yuko looked so awkward in HSW, and Niigaki looked out of place in Do it! Now. :/ I think Tsunku should drop all pre-notions on how to produce music and do something completely 100% different than anything they've done and do a huge restart. Which was what basically happened with LOVE Machine, compare that to Morning Coffee. AKB48 hasn't done anything extremely in your face sexy (Seifuku Jama wo Suru doesn't count) but if leaving the "idol fun" idea behind there could be somthing. MAX is attempting it but doesn't have any promotion.
If they dropped everything did something unlike any other idol group, there could be a huge jump again. Like LOVE Machine! I'm wanting something like these:
5/27/10
5/1/10
Male Wota VS Female Wota
I'm using the term wota to mean any H!P fan for this. After the chat came up on H!O on this picture post, I had to use my math skills to show how many female fans there is per male.
One example I wrote at H!O:
Judging by the registered member list there is 138 pages of female members, with 20 on each, except the last one (with 2) it would equal 2,742 girls here. And 4,640 male. Lol, and 71,589 (3580 pages) members only 7,382 have specified their gender. So males are double to females registered here, with their gender set. So I can totally see why people think the female fans are almost non existent.
For every ~1.70 (yeah 3/4 a person) male fan there is one female at H!O. So if you take the Nine Smile concert final day hall seating capacity (imagine if I used the EC graduation numbers) which is 2,062. So if 2,062 gender set H!Onliners went to the Nine Smile concert only only about ~1,212 of those attendees would be female. (Coincidentally when divided equal out to 1.70, I think?) So males have a upperhand but females are around just not as many.
But if you factor in minors (as in age) I'm not sure the numbers will stay the same
Member lists from the top 3 H!P forums:
Hello! Online
Musume-Central
MM-BBS
Affecting variables: Age limits depending on venue rules
Stats:
H!O - Male 4,640
- Female 2,742
- Unspecified 64,207
Ratio - ~1.70 males per female
M-C - Male 280
- Female 179
- Unspecified 2,021
Ratio - ~1.50 males per female
BBS - Male 80
- Female 122
- Unspecified 2,206
Ratio - ~0.65 males per female
Totals - Male 5,000
- Female 3,043
- Unspecified 68,434
- All M&F 8,043
Average Ratio - ~1.28 males per female
Females seem to be out numbered with the exception of MM-BBS. So many leechers!
Now to compare that to the Elder Club graduation at Yokohama arena, much like I did with Nine Smile. The capacity is 17,000, which is nothing to the 8,043 people. I will pretend I have 17k. Let's say the arena was sold out, looked like it was anyway. :P I divided by the 1.28 ratio = 13,281 males would have attended. Making it 3,719 females at that concert. Quite a huge gap!! Ratio - ~3.57 males per female.
Summary:
-It's seems males generally dominate, idols are projected to them purposely. Which can explain this.
-What can't be explained is what draws females to idols.
-The variable of children/minors can affect this.
-For every 3 and 1/2 males that attended equaled 1 female.
Hmmmmm......TBC
4/30/10
4/23/10
I got this the other day....
Question - Why do you like Sayumi? She can't sing.
Answer - Since when does Tsunku pick good singers? Who else am I supposed to like, Koharu? Listen to some mic hacks and you'll know how bad H!P singers really are. Even your dear "never sounds bad" Takahashi (or Yajima, ever hear her live and then listen to her on CD? HUGE difference!) sounds horrible.
I'll post a video of this later.
-Courtesy of half-drunk Hannah
Answer - Since when does Tsunku pick good singers? Who else am I supposed to like, Koharu? Listen to some mic hacks and you'll know how bad H!P singers really are. Even your dear "never sounds bad" Takahashi (or Yajima, ever hear her live and then listen to her on CD? HUGE difference!) sounds horrible.
I'll post a video of this later.
-Courtesy of half-drunk Hannah
4/20/10
My first DVD Magazine Vol.31
I never bother watching them, take up too much on my HDD. But gave it a go this time and it wasn't that bad. Here's my short review. *OGMNI = Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikenai
The girls.
LOVE.
Special ED Love.
And that's about all you need to know about DVD Magazines.
PS - The OGMNI really did get sung in Linlin's wierd high pitched voice. Go look.
PPS - I should do more of these.
PPPS - Enjoy this. She really did say that!
3,2,1 BREAKIN' OUT! Fuck-ups
After watching this for the millionth time I saw:
NO white outline. From the same scene WITH white outline.
Proof that close-ups WEREN'T without the white outline.
Also, Eri & Reina are missing the outline, but you see Ai WITH it.
WAY TO GO ANIMATORS!!!!!
NO white outline. From the same scene WITH white outline.
WAY TO GO ANIMATORS!!!!!
4/4/10
Srsly, what the fuck did I just watch?
The H!P shuffle date concert sucked, mostly. The only parts I watched were Aa!, Zoku Biyuuden,DEF.DIVA2, Nochiura Natsumi2.
Aa! - Eeh, kinda unemotional. Suzuki took most of Reina's lines and some of her original. Saho (?) took some of Reina and Airi's lines. Natsuyaki stayed the same. Too many Buono! members really. Saho sounded horrible, all those new eggs need some serious vocal practice/ growing up. New song bored me to death. Suzuki's acapella thing was terrible, my ears wanted to close. I had to skip it, sorry Suzuki your just not as good sounding as you think.
TANPOPO DIED IN 1999, PLZ DON'T KILL ME WITH MORE HORRIBLE TANPOPO WANNABES.
DEF.DIVA remake - OMFGWTFBBQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In a good way, this was phenomenal. (I am biased to this song)
Abe = Michishige
Goto = Tanaka
Ishikawa = Sudou
Matsuura = Yajima
I absolutely love the people chosen for this. The outfits I liked because they were mirroring the original, sans the fluffy green thingies. GotoReina (that name sounds awesome) was somewhat of a stretch though. In her "Bye Bye" she sounded like she wasn't even trying to sing in this at all, just random talk/singing.Know what I mean? She killed the song a bit. AbeSayumi was quite nice sounding, not nasal as much. Brownie points for you! IshikawaMaasa was good sounding, why does she not get more lines in singles. Seriously yo. Even if she always looks like deer in headlights. MatsuuraMaimi was okay sounding. She sounds like always, a little flat. Her hair is growing, she looks like a young Arihara right now :D
They did the dance in the interlude *dies*.
Nochiura Natsumi remake - Amazing song, kinda killed by Shimizu.
Goto = Shimizu
Matsuura = Kamei
Abe = Takahashi (Ai)
Shimei Ai was quite a mess. I liked it but Shimizu felt out of place, she's not the greatest singer. What happened in H-K she wasn't that bad. I like her hair if that counts. Outfits are lame. TAKAHSHI PLEASE STOP SMILING AFTER EVERY LINE YOU SING. Kamei's "hito wa mina yowai hodo" was just aweful. She connot and will never be able to hit high notes. The dance is the sex. >:D
Zoku Biyuuden - ONRII ONRII ONRII CHUU
New song sucks. Moving on to Koisuru Angel Heart nao. One word on the outfits, fugly. Trying to imitate Biyuuden's sexy looks came out terrible, I find none of the members sexy. Only Michishige in certain looks and outfits. But her voice just about mirrors Ishikawa's perfectly. Suguyaga's "tatta ima kono ba de.." was scary. In the concert at about 1:24:20. Seriously go look. Junjun was bleh sounding as usual.
Edit: So you don't have to go look here. At 1:55
OMFG it's creepy somewhat receeding bald guy from Morning Musume's Yomiuri Land EAST concert!!!! And his shirt is pink, Michishige fan. ONOES, not my girl. He didn't have that shirt before, and seemed to have gotten a better seat this time. I'm going to go through some recent concerts to find more of him, I'll have to keep lookout through new stuff too for this guy.
RATING: 4.5/10 Extra .5 for the balding guy. (Doesn't he have a family, wife, kids or something? He looks like a Riiman or something.)
Aa! - Eeh, kinda unemotional. Suzuki took most of Reina's lines and some of her original. Saho (?) took some of Reina and Airi's lines. Natsuyaki stayed the same. Too many Buono! members really. Saho sounded horrible, all those new eggs need some serious vocal practice/ growing up. New song bored me to death. Suzuki's acapella thing was terrible, my ears wanted to close. I had to skip it, sorry Suzuki your just not as good sounding as you think.
TANPOPO DIED IN 1999, PLZ DON'T KILL ME WITH MORE HORRIBLE TANPOPO WANNABES.
DEF.DIVA remake - OMFGWTFBBQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In a good way, this was phenomenal. (I am biased to this song)
Abe = Michishige
Goto = Tanaka
Ishikawa = Sudou
Matsuura = Yajima
I absolutely love the people chosen for this. The outfits I liked because they were mirroring the original, sans the fluffy green thingies. GotoReina (that name sounds awesome) was somewhat of a stretch though. In her "Bye Bye" she sounded like she wasn't even trying to sing in this at all, just random talk/singing.
They did the dance in the interlude *dies*.
Nochiura Natsumi remake - Amazing song, kinda killed by Shimizu.
Goto = Shimizu
Matsuura = Kamei
Abe = Takahashi (Ai)
Shimei Ai was quite a mess. I liked it but Shimizu felt out of place, she's not the greatest singer. What happened in H-K she wasn't that bad. I like her hair if that counts. Outfits are lame. TAKAHSHI PLEASE STOP SMILING AFTER EVERY LINE YOU SING. Kamei's "hito wa mina yowai hodo" was just aweful. She connot and will never be able to hit high notes. The dance is the sex. >:D
Zoku Biyuuden - ONRII ONRII ONRII CHUU
New song sucks. Moving on to Koisuru Angel Heart nao. One word on the outfits, fugly. Trying to imitate Biyuuden's sexy looks came out terrible, I find none of the members sexy. Only Michishige in certain looks and outfits. But her voice just about mirrors Ishikawa's perfectly. Suguyaga's "tatta ima kono ba de.." was scary. In the concert at about 1:24:20. Seriously go look. Junjun was bleh sounding as usual.
Edit: So you don't have to go look here. At 1:55
OMFG it's creepy somewhat receeding bald guy from Morning Musume's Yomiuri Land EAST concert!!!! And his shirt is pink, Michishige fan. ONOES, not my girl. He didn't have that shirt before, and seemed to have gotten a better seat this time. I'm going to go through some recent concerts to find more of him, I'll have to keep lookout through new stuff too for this guy.
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