ikenai hodo

[arisha]

New excerpt which I have written just now in the past five minutes, but I must warn you it is less than fantastic. I am woefully behind. It is kind of exciting.

I have decided perhaps that one of the novel's themes perhaps is (involuntary?) corruption, and I would never want to be friends with any of these characters in real life, ever. Unlike my current novel project, where I think it would be hilarious to hang out with everyone. Perhaps that is one of the reasons I have actually been able to stick with this novel for going on three years now. (I hate admitting I have been working on this one novel for so long because I have mad woman friends who I'm sure churn out twenty-five novels each per year.)

Anyway, yay NaNo, boo PACI which I don't want to go to at all. Haha, I have spent like half of today sitting here in the school computer lab reading MoMusu forums. I am absolutely convinced that one day this is going to get me into trouble. I don't think it's a brilliant move to look at pictures of underaged Berryz Koubou (their 2007 calendar pwns MoMusu's, how distressing) in a place where people can see what you're doing. Ahaha, I'll have to come up with a clever excuse. "But I'm writing an essay on rorikon, you don't understand!"

Comments

[teru-teru-bouzu.livejournal.com]

I think I will catch you one of these days ~ LOL

I actually I have never heard their music ~ I've heard bits and pieces of it on performance ~ but I've never liked it, cause their well ultra cutisness has freaked me out and I also end up skipping their parts.
Oh ~ Well that "stupidness" kinda feeling comes from when I see them answer questions when asked. Sometimes they answer wierdly ~ When people ask them ~ They give me and my friends the asian version of the sterotypical blond bimbo, boke-ness if that's even a word. LOL

There was one when three girls were on Love Love Aishteru and I went -.-; when I heard their answers. Ayaya used to freak me out with her cutsyness but she no longer acts all that cute as much anymore.

Well I think Johnny's is the male version of the Hello! Project. But JE has become infested with little chibi Jrs ~ It's kinda gives you a feel that we're pedophiles cause these kids are like 12, and if you flip through the magazines it's filled with little kids as they have started not posting pics of the idols who are past 30 ~ like 20th Century is no longer in these magaziens only Coming Cen is.

For me ~ It depends ~ I listen to songs sung by females and some of them have great music like Ito Yuna, Hikki, Namie (although I've found her music recently really American popish). Someone sent me Koda Kumi's MM audition. I can never imagine her all cutsy and stuff. LOL ~ But I guess it was a good thing she never got into MM or else she'd never be as popular as she is now.

Yeah but we have to do a presentation right? What kind of presentation are we talking about????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

part 1

[arisha.livejournal.com]

Not all of MoMusu's music is cutesy, although you do kind of have to dig to find the more serious stuff. If you're at all interested to hear a song of theirs that isn't cutesy, I found a couple of their more serious PVs on YouTube. I mean, I'm not ordering you to watch these or anything, haha, but they're there if you're curious. And if you think there are some Johnny's PVs that I just HAVE to see, then please let me know which ones! I don't think I've actually even seen a PV by any of them ... well, unless you count Shingo Mama. XD Though I have heard some stuff by V6 and some stuff by SMAP, including their "Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana" over and over and over again ... (I have a friend who for a whole semester was OBSESSED with that song, hahaha.)

I once saw a peformance by SMAP and MoMusu together that was a medley of MoMusu songs. It was cute but nothing special. I actually don't think I really like listening to medleys ... hahaha!

Anyway, serious MoMusu PVs!
1998: Memory青春の光 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ-gZTTeVgE) (maybe this song doesn't count; it's from before they went all cutesy in the first place)
2002: Do it! Now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLn7tjMp1WY)
2003: AS FOR ONE DAY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44LmbSvOzjQ)
2004: 浪漫 ~My Dear Boy~ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMgDcb4U80g)
2005: 大阪 恋の歌 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy7kyNX3jIw)

(Hahaha, I've sung two of those songs at karaoke ...)

Of course, even if you like those songs I don't think it'll turn you into a full-blown H!P fan or anything. You'd need to be able to stand a fair bit of cutsiness for that. ;)

It's true that various MoMusu members often act like real girly girls, or are terrible at trivia questions. There's a show, I think it's called Mecha-Mecha Iketeru!, and in early 2003 (I think) they did a MoMusu episode where they gave the girls exams that were of an early high school sort of level, and not a lot of them did that well. A couple of the graduated members did drop out of school entirely in order to become an idol. Once I saw an entire thread that was about all the dumb mistakes MoMusu have made about things they should know - Risa saying the capital of China is "Chan Pon Chan," Yuko drawing a map upsidedown, Kago and Tsuji unable to complete simple proverbs or write proper kanji. So yeah, I can't defend them and say they are the most brilliant students in the world. But at the same time, I dunno ... should it make me think less of them? Because it really doesn't. I think with American celebrities I'm much more bothered by ignorance of everyday matters (eg. Paris Hilton claiming not to know what a paycheque is or what she should do with it). Maybe the lack of knowledge displayed by some Japanese celebrities bothers me less because it's farther away, and so it seems less like reality? Or maybe it's like: an American celebrity unable to tell the difference between "your" and "you're," that bothers me because it's something I see every day and it's pathetic! But when someone fails to remember how to write the kanji for "tsubasa," man, I can relate!

It's interesting that you mention liking Ayaya a bit better after she let go (for the most part) of her cutesy image, because a thing there's a fair portion of H!P fans who liked her better before and miss her wacky antics now she's toned them down a bit. (I'm the same with Rika; once she graduated from MoMusu she started acting more normal and it bores me. :( ) Well, also the fact that she's been releasing ballads for the past two years, ugh, what happened to her fun songs? :P

Haha, I thought it was just H!P that was recruiting pre-teens! The last concert I watched, the youngest singing member was ten years old. It's kind of weird, but at the same time I think H!P realizes this and is trying to counteract it by giving the younger groups the best songs and the more expensive PVs ...

Re: part 1

[teru-teru-bouzu.livejournal.com]

HOLY S*** it's long ~ that's answer one by one.

But I know that being cutsy really does fulfill the fantasy's of many people.

Just like JE PVs have to be you know HOT/SEXY guys and or little young kids trying to act all HOT and SEXY which I find it very very very WRONG!!!!!

I was watching Sarujie ~ where they were testing the age of your brain. One of the girls from MM had a brain age of like 68 and she was only 16/17.

But I think JE has done some really ummmmmmm interesting Interviews so yeah it just really doesn't fall on MM ~ and well I guess i'm just being bias. LOL

part 2

[arisha.livejournal.com]

I guess one difference between H!P and JE is that H!P only really has one member who is over thirty (that being Nakazawa Yuko, you might know her from the first Gokusen ^_~ ). But she barely even gets to release anything anymore. I think H!P started as a collective with members that were the average ages, for a J-pop group, but since 2002 they have started getting younger and younger. MoMusu now, I think the cut-off ages for auditions is twenty-two or something like that, I'm sure it used to be older.

I like Hikki a lot, although whenever she puts out a new song I have to listen to it over and over and over until I'm used to it enough that I can like it, haha. I do like a couple songs of Namie's, I haven't heard that many. Admittedly I really am unable to tell whether a song sounds more Western pop or more J-pop, unless it has, like, traditional instruments in it or something. I'm really bad with telling genres apart, or so it seems to me. ^^; Yeah, I saw Koda Kumi's audition, too! I wonder what would have happened if she had joined MoMusu? I don't even think she'd be happy there. I remember her talking about how she wouldn't be happy in the back, she'd want to be right up in the front singing all the lines. She would definitely be a lot different if she had joined and stayed with MoMusu. But I imagine she would have dropped out and run off to avex anyway, hahaha. Or what if she had gotten into MoMusu and Maki (who did get into MoMusu at that audition) was picked up by avex? Man, that would be a strange alternate universe, hahahahahaha ...

What do you think of Hamasaki Ayumi? I like a lot of her stuff but I'm always really slow when it comes to listening to her new releases, haha.

Yeah, I know I like really girly music, hehe. :) <3

Yes! The presentation! All I know is that it is to be five minutes long. I'm not even joking, that's all I know about it, and I only know that because leaf_green told me this morning. I don't recall sensei going over this presentation at all and it is really frustrating. I expect I'll just read a rough draft of my paper, and maybe pass around some pictures to distract everyone from what a junk presentation I am doing. Good idea?

Siiiiigh ...

(Man, this is the first time I've written a comment so long it had to be split into two. You got me talking about MoMusu and when I get talking about MoMusu I write books. For realz.)

Re: part 2

[teru-teru-bouzu.livejournal.com]

On to part 2. LOL

Actually I've heard Nakazawa Yuko's one song ~ It wasn't too bad ~ a friend told me it wasn't a cutsy super girly song. So she sent it to me. (BTW: Apprently she was dating Sakamoto Masayuki from V6 ~ and were rumoured to be getting married but I guess that rumour never panned out eh. LOL)

I liked Ayumi's older stuff but recently i've started to like HEAVEN.

Oh yeah the presentation i asked sensei is between 3-5 min and you just basically talked about why you choose. How you will do the presentation and whether you got any resltus from your "experiment"

part 3!

[arisha.livejournal.com]

I forgot the question I was going to ask!

You say that MoMusu comes off in interviews as looking really airheaded and not so smart. Would you say that the boys of JE fare better? Do they come off looking more intelligent than MoMusu? I've seen a couple clips from Utaban of JE groups (and Gackt, of course), and I've seen L'Arc~en~Ciel (I know they're not a JE group but I feel I have to mention) on Matthew's Best Hit TV, but I think on those two shows, most everyone comes off looking like a fool ... XD

Re: part 3!

[teru-teru-bouzu.livejournal.com]

I've actually never seen a whole episode of Matthew's Best Hit. I've only seen clips of it when he tried to CLOMP Tsubasa. And has seen one where they were doing a fortune telling of Aiba Masaki.

Well I know that Koichi acts really dumb and baka on Shin Domoto Kyodai ~ But I think one part of it is he's acting but I know apparently Koichi is really "Tenin Boke”

Than again many people act all dumb and food cause it makes the fans happy to see their fav idol's acting all silly and stuff right. FAN SA-BISU. LOL