"Nandaka Sentimental na Toki no Uta" PV

It's really odd.

This isn't doing anything for me.

↑ What she said. I think there will be a shakeup in the sub-groups, but it's just a question of whether it'll be a major change or just a tweak. I can see arguments for either route, and I'm not wedded to one or the other. They've already made the big decision that had hoped they wouldn't, so I'm ju...

"Hakkiri Shiyouze" got a crazy good lineup, but I wish they'd gotten a better song, lol!

Not sure how anyone here feels about Eminem, but his new album is ridiculously good, especially if you're a fan of the classic Slim Shady era stuff.

There's also a BEYOOOOONDS specific audition, but I'm not sure if we need two threads haha. Age range for the general audition is 11-16, for Biyo is 13-20. Biyo also asks for special hobbies. - - - - - - - For BEYOOOOONDS... oof. Not feeling it. Biyo was the perfect group for me. Of course it shows...

Here we go!



Translation:

"Hello! Project New Member Audition 2024" is being held!

We are looking for members for Hello! Project.
Please believe in your potential and apply.

Application deadline: 9/2 (Mon) 10AM

Sweet!

Damn, I can't believe I almost missed this one. This is such a great album.

Edit. Apparently it's New Jack-Swing which was the influence for this song, which was (as I figured) popular in the 80s-90s. It's kind of weird, in 2024, to think of NJS as a "style" of music because the majority of pop songs are built on rap beats now -- or at least rap-friendly -- but b...

Sweet!

So Oharu announced the name of her idol group on this live stream last week: Time Lapse. Kinda odd, but then Oharu is the producer, so it tracks. Also, there are only five members, as I clearly misread the previous media reports, lol. Their group Twitter account is live, and it links to all of the i...

Bluemoon Blues live, complete with Kishimon guitar strumming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP9i8Cvip8s Also, more new Kishimon: Mayonaka no kagi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeAbcYz1WFU Nice little neo-City Pop thing. I like everything she's done so far, but I'm still waiting on the heater .

Kaede in her Moulin Rouge! costume. https://twitter.com/yaita_hamachi/status/1809600202359357791 Also, if you're copy-and-pasting links from Twitter, you'll have to change the x-dot-com to twitter-dot-com in the url for them to appear inline here, as the new domain has officially propagated. Not sur...

This is fkn sweet. The song hits harder as a studio track -- in part, I think, because some of the extended high notes and harmonies are difficult to hold live, but it's got great grooves, interesting key changes and strong melodies. No, not groundbreaking, but I honestly don't want a lot of groundb...

Kawamu grew on me soon after the Anju-gedden of 2019-2020 when she was forced to take a larger role in the group. She had the perfect balance of elegance and down-to-earth normality, with a dash of kookiness that was perfect for Anju. She even grew to be a decent singer with her increased workload. ...

I glad someone else uploaded that.

That's such a Weezer song, lol. It's pretty catchy, though. I thought it was gonna be a new Riho song, so that's disappointing, but it's cool she's finding gigs.

Yeah, the first case he showed had 100kai no KISS on the front cover, and it was at that moment when it hit me that I might recognize a lot of the music he got with that mic. One of them had all of the Shiawase shuffle group songs, which just goes to show how big H!P was in 2002. Hearing -- and reco...

She seems like a really good as a stage performer, which might seem obvious -- she's a former idol -- but not all former idols can carry off a solo show. Kishimon seems very natural and comfortable as a soloist. It wouldn't surprise me if she became good enough at guitar to eventually add it to her ...

Rosy Chronicle's Youtube channel is now live.

Kishimon has a new digital single, "Kokoro ni SUNNY" [Edit: it's not new, it's three weeks old, lol!]



Here's a live performance.

I always love seeing H!P stuff turn up in unexpected places, like the latest video from one of my favorite Youtube follows, Techmoan. He's a middle-aged English dude who collects old tech -- mostly audio related, but other stuff, as well -- and his latest features an old broken Japanese coin operate...

Apropos of nothing at all, here's the latest video from Hoshibe Sho where he shows how he makes a vocal demo for the girls to learn new songs. Youtube's auto-generated translations have improved to the point where Japanese-to-English seems to be pretty good now, so you can understand probably 90% of...

Oh ffs, lol!

Ha ha! One of the baddest bitches to ever grace the Hello! Project goes out with one of the girliest outfits, which is awesome. The Great Japanese Tulle Shortage of 2024 will have been worth it. I missed this live and will have to watch it later, but Rikako was one of those n00bs who grabbed my atte...

Y'all aren't really gonna let this end in a tie, are you? 'Cos I'm not, lol. If this is still tied by Sunday evening, I'll run a poll on Twitter and let them decide. You don't really want a bunch of animals on Twitter to decide our poll, do you? No, of course not. I got your back, JPope. :wink: Woo...

Y'all aren't really gonna let this end in a tie, are you? 'Cos I'm not, lol.

If this is still tied by Sunday evening, I'll run a poll on Twitter and let them decide. You don't really want a bunch of animals on Twitter to decide our poll, do you? No, of course not.

I think the Rosy Chronicle girls are hit-and-miss. I've seen KSS Unit 24 performances where I thought they were ahead of where OCHA was pre-debut, and other times where they're pretty bad. UF probably saw the same thing and that's why their debut was pushed back. I'll give UF the benefit of the doub...