I don't know that we've ever done one of these for Angerme, but if we did it was forever ago, so let's rank your favorite Anju songs! We like ranking shit, right? RIGHT? Anyway, I'm doing my top 20, but feel free to include as many or as few as you like. I'm not the boss of you! I thought about doin...

Two days from release and I've not seen a single radio rip for any of the album tracks.

Man, I hope Ozeki gets good songs as opposed to 3rd-tier off-the-rack mid-tempo snoozers, because I really dig her voice. It's hard to tell how UF is gonna handle new M-line girls, especially when they weren't A-listers in H!P. And damn, I hope Yuka recovers alright. Anything related to the spine is...

Honestly, you could pin it down to Reina's leadership. EDM as the MM guide star was the run from "Renai Hunter" through "Brainstorming." Starting with the Wagamama/Gundan single the songs used EDM elements as opposed to EDM arrangements for the most part.

Not my favorite song, but I love that M-line is getting a gig like this, and I would LOVE if this would become at least a semi-permanent group, because it's awesome. Shit, given how thin H!P's release schedule is now, they could compete directly with H!P groups if UF wanted them to. Two songs per ye...

Well good thing these girls are so young then. Plenty of time to learn! True. H!P's recent track record wrt girls becoming at least serviceable singers is pretty good. Though honestly, listening to Akaringo's and Yokoyan's recording afterwards... nothing a good sound producer can't fix :ph34r: Ther...

Oh shit, ha ha! I posted my reaction to your opening comment just before leaving for work, and didn't see the footage until last night. My bad.

The latest ep of Upcoming features audition footage of the TF n00bs, and uh, it appears that UF has decided that the group's trend toward higher performance needed to be curtailed, lol. Fuu-chan is the best of the three, but she's not great. Honestly, most of the KSS n00bs are better than all of the...

I figure some of the new stock wont make it to debut it's inevitable with that many girls joining at once. But I know for a fact a few of these girls are being primed for Morning Musume and Juice=Juice for sure. (Of current KSS, Niina is someone I want in Morning Musume.) Yeah, I think that they se...

Ha ha, I knew Shoujo would have the deets! If my math is correct, there have been a total of 161 former members of KSS, of which 95 have debuted in H!P. That's a 59% hit rate, and if you assume the girls currently in KSS Unit will all make it to debut, it's a 61% hit rate. So girls who join the H!P ...

Babies! Even Mihane is nearly a year younger than Yofu, and the other two are even two years younger. This is going to be interesting, since Yofu aside everybody in Tsubaki is 20 or hitting it (Marine in October this year). Makes me believe that other girls have already planned their graduation as ...

That's a lot of new members, lol. It seems like a really fast turnover for TF to me, but Tofu's gen has been there for 2.5 years already. Fly, time does.

Watch their reactions here.

Here's the GOODM!X song and MV: "Come on Mix!"



Pretty fun old-school H!P vibe, and plenty of hooks throughout. I don't think it rises to the level of SHAKA SHAKA TO LOVE, Vitamin ME or Furefure Everyday, but it's pretty good.

Sweet!

This has the potential to be the thing that gets me back into H!P in a big way. I like that, outside of maybe Shiori and Momo, all of these girls are 2nd or 3rd tier in their groups and all have interesting personalities. And none of them are old timers -- it's all new gen H!P. All they need now is ...

Judging by the silhuette it's going to be Shiori though, not Miimi. Yeah, I might be reading too much into Shiori's "hot pink" color, because that silhouette is not hot pink, lol. It does look more like Shiori than Miimi, though. That being said, I hope we get a song, like they did with t...

Looks like we're getting an H!P shuffle group to promote Tsubugumi candies. It will contain one member from each group, and they've been slow-rolling the lineup on Twitter. Here's the first post: https://twitter.com/tsubugumi_tw/status/1752105843112440307 Google translation: "Colorful and uniqu...

Riho's new video "Hi(gh) Life" dropped on YT yesterday.



This doesn't really hit me all that hard, which is how her catalog has trended since her solo debut.

What if they added a completely new sub-group to Biyo?

Awesome! How many noobs will TF get?

Near as I can tell, fan mixes kind of died with the Platinum Era, if not during it. There are a few YT musicians who do play-alongs to H!P songs, but I haven't seen any full-on remixers in years. That's not to say they don't exist, just that I'm not aware of any.

I'm honestly not shocked by this, and I wouldn't be surprised if Ami followed her this fall. Tsubaki lost their face, their leader and their voice in one year. It's just not the same group anymore. Not gonna lie, I'm looking forward to Ami being leader, even if it's only for a few month, lol. And sp...

I assumed that the 25th anniversary audition that should be wrapping up soon was to restock the KSS.

There are a lot of singers that I grow to like in a group and they sound great, but when they go solo it's so underwhelming. The contrast with the other members of the group are what give them depth. For sure. I also think it's easy to just assume that an idol who stands out in a group will automat...

Shoujo Q wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 1:11 pm While I’d love another Musume album, I’d like another single for the newbs before that. Let them get a bigger foothold with the fans and live performing.

My favorite MM songs have been their album tracks going back to Thank you, too, which leads me to believe that UF gives Tsunku more creative leeway with long-players. Normally this would be MM's New Album year, and I wonder if last year's Best Selection collection will push that back or not?

"Fantasy ga Hajimaru" and "Wake Up Call" both making the finals kind of surprised me. I like both songs, but yeah. The craziest thing, though, is how the top song -- and two of the top four -- were not written by Tsunku.

It was between I WISH and Utakata for me originally, and had I gone with Utakata we wouldn't have needed the tie-breaker, lol.

I know it's not supposed to be easy at this point, but got-dam, lol. I still haven't voted, but it's down to two songs. Hopefully I can decide by Wednesday!