Looking at promotion alone, they sunk a LOT of money into this group. So it was never going to flop right out of the gate. The real challenge will be to keep the momentum of the group going. I'm still not keen on the idea of the Kpop culture taking over the Jpop. Some Kpop fans can be so toxic and c...

I'm making a thread for this solely to bring light to the fact that they released a digital live album (minus the MC parts) of the concert rip and H!P needs to do more of it. It was great. It's on Apple Music/iTunes if you want to hear some of it. Mousou Dake Nara Freedom was such an amazing opening...

Well that was anti-climatic.

Here, have another round. Hopefully with a little more interesting results.

You have 5 votes to play with, but only 3 songs will move on. It's the Cutie C-ute round!

The Sho Musume songs are just *chef kiss* for me.

Hey hey! The Berryz battle is over. Next up, C-ute! We're starting with the indie singles, consider this the easiest poll, you get 3 votes and 3 winners. Two of the singles were later in their career, but were homeless because they were never released outside of the venue, hence the indie label. Nex...

They probably told her to lose a few pounds. Something along the lines of, you’re center and the leader so you should stand out or some such bull crap. If I can see your rib cage, you need a sandwich. It’s the one thing I hate about Kpop. Their need to make plastic idols and obsession with beauty an...

I’m going to be honest with you. I didn’t fall in love with it till Morning Musume covered it. Then it became one of my most beloved songs.

The Final Berryz Round is up before the tie-breaker. We had 1 tie in the end, so now the total number of songs that are being carried over is 3. Unless of course you cause another tie in this round.


You have 5 whole vote! But only 3 will move on. GOOD LUCK!

The first of the multi-group Round 1 polls features Juice=Juice and Country Girls. As with all the previous polls, you get six votes. I should probably keep a public tally of the winners and losers of each poll, so I'll add that to the first post some time this week. And yes, I have been keeping tr...

One of these things is not like the other, one of these things is peaking my senses. You see a group of not Japanese names and you know you have my attention.

Oaiko seems to be a Tsunku song. Well color me surprised!

Honestly didn’t listen to the concert rip so that dance break felt like such a record scratch. It’s okay but it’s missing a pop. Like it’s not going to its full potential. The vocals just aren’t hitting me right. I feel like Karin could have added a lot to the vocals if she were still in the group. ...

Yuhane :tears: I really liked her. I wonder if she’ll stick with Up Front and just do the MLine thing or pop over to YUM and hang out with Yumeno? Or just leave and do the Momona thing and become a Kpop (I mean Jpop) super star? I wonder how many more girls leave before we find out if Beyooooonds be...

We're nearing the end of the Berryz singles. New round is up, you get 4 votes, but only 3 winners.

ENJOY! Poll closes by Monday.

JPope wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:49 pm Seeing a vote for "Zanshin" makes me happy, because I wanted to vote for it, but there were just too many I like more. I really dig that song, though.

I voted for it. I love a song with harmonica in it.

That was easy but also hard. It’s been a minute since I’ve indulged in Kobushi music. I forgot how much I liked Sho’s slower songs.

MV for ONE DAY dropped.

New poll is up. It's all of the songs during Berryz Inazuma phase. You get 3 votes.

I still haven’t made a thread for Mai. And now I’ll need one for Yumeno.


But yay Yumeno!!! She’s under the Yum label so expect she’ll go off in a different direction compared to the M-Line crew. I look forward to it.

That was nice. I enjoyed it. It was very typical H!P and that’s not a bad thing. I look forward to the other two songs. It was sad not seeing Reina. Not that I think she would have added much. I was focused on Milo the whole time. XD But I’m going to jab the MV director for a second. Those dance sho...

Hina-Fest is this weekend, and Hirayama Yuki came down with the sickness. So Kawana Rin won the pull to replace her as a soloist.

(It's always a pain to replace a last minute in my doc, but I did it.)

As I suspected, we have our very first tie-breaker. Due to the fact I want to keep things moving. All tie-breakers will show up at the end of the phase in a FUN new way! Rules will be slightly different and depending on the amount of ties that show up, it may work in favor or against older songs. So...

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I wish she could get on by herself, but I’ll take whatever I can get!

Airi will be on First Take tomorrow.
She will be performing Koi ni Ochitara with Sorane & ☆Taku Takahashi

We've moved on to our next round of Berryz songs. Same as before. 3 votes. I am moving it so voting ends on Thursday now.

Here is the full MV. Just as I suspected for a MV with a mega budget.

Digital release of Click is out. It’s super typical Kpop style with an ear-worm sound. It’s not offensive to my ears but they just sound over processed (to me) and it’s one thing I don’t really like because there’s just no individuality in the vocals. I’m sure the MV will be extra high budget. Aside...

So for the last month I’ve been immersing myself in Angerme music because I want to rank the songs on the Angerme ranking post and I’ve been trying to refind my love for the group since the Kanon/Memei loss I’ve been slowly getting over. So let’s just say this was a taste of my rankings. Some of my ...

Let’s be real here. They took half the H!P music budget and shoved into M-Line and didn’t think we would notice.

I feel like Reina’s illness setback a Beyooooonds release. Kind of like how Tsubaki had a delay when she was sick.