The more I think about it, the less I like this single lmao.  These song are completely forgettable, the aesthetic is whack, the video was cheap and lazy, and featured 48G type pandering to kimowotas.  H!P need to breathe some fresh air into this group or I'm going to completely lose interest for th...

I really like Break It Down as a song!  And the dance is fun.  I feel like the video is surprisingly low budget though - seems like everything since her debut has gotten more and more so.

That Limited B cover is about as shitty as this single deserves lmao.

Sanma has always been a creep but ngl I remember at least some of the time that corner would have cringy ~kokuhaku~ type moments rather than straight up porno. I much prefer that to this sort of thing.  Overall I think it's just asking for trouble because while some girls probably enjoy the adult hu...

Ahh, she did a solid cover of Goodbye My Love.  That one's an all time classic, although my personal favorite modern pop girl rendition is Fukuda Saki's version.

An H!P video??? With decent art direction??? lmao this never happens.  Admittedly, I could sure do without all the flashing text overlays but god knows that's one of H!P's go-to mechanisms.     I like this song!  The instrumental is something very un-H!P but the vocal melody is pure Tsunku to the bo...

[quote="Anderei"]   <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Valerie" data-cid="218886" data-time="1571283032"> Yeah, I had forgotten that Sulli had actually left. I can't remember the reason she had left, was it because of the bullying? I know...

[quote="JPope"] God dammit. This is a sucker punch to the gut of Angerme. I saw her as a key member to carrying the group forward after the last of the 2nd gen leaves in a couple of years (if not sooner).Of all the CG girls, she stood out the most in her new group, and really established h...

[quote="JPope"]   <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Farrah" data-cid="218829" data-time="1570217456"> <div> I'm starting to wonder if Mizuki might have to be told to go at this point lol everyone has been expecting her to leave soon for ...

I'm starting to wonder if Mizuki might have to be told to go at this point lol everyone has been expecting her to leave soon for like three years now.  I don't have anything against her in particular but yeah, as leaders go, she does give off a very traditionalist vibe that isn't really helping make...

[quote="JPope"]
Eh, it was cool to have someone here who kept up with these things.
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The 12th gen girls, not the stats keeper! LOL the statistics were interesting, albeit a somewhat painful reminder of how stale MM have been for awhile haha.

It's truly amazing how little impression they have left on me in all that time lmao.
 
ETA: The 12th gen girls, I mean LOL.

They showed some of the recording for Nippon no DNA this week!  https://youtu.be/NqgfdetZm_E?t=208
 
Both of them sounded pretty good, which makes me wish their songs didn't rely so heavily on group lines and speaking parts.  I'm inherently biased against group-heavy songs, though, always have been.

Thanks for linking these!  Haven't read the second one yet but the first one was really interesting.  I wouldn't have guessed Airi gets that much creative control, but it's very refreshing!  I remember one of the driving forces behind Gocchin leaving was the fact that she got little to no say in her...

If Country Girls came back and put out nothing but corny 70s easy listening tracks like this I would have absolutely zero complaints.  I will die mad about what happened to this group, lol.  They had such potential but it really all fell apart after Momoko left, which sucks - because this release pr...

What does that Atsui song come from?  I've never heard it before

I joined when I was 10 or 11?  And I'm 25 now.  So I've spent more than half my life on this site haha.   I was checking out Cuca's new youtube channel.  She grew up really pretty, although it doesn't seem her singing really ever improved ... I totally forgot she gave up on H!P for 48G LOL.  Can't s...

So... those are the best outfits they could give them for one of their most mainstream appearances in years? lmao okay...   Setlist has a lot of songs I like but there's no denying it's kind of a haphazard mixture of vibes LOL.  I'm happy Sakura healed up in time to get to do this (and I'm sure ever...

[quote="Shoujo Q"]   Beyooooonds debuted at #1 with 80,087 on Oricon .    If they can hold onto the big numbers throughout the week, they will be a shoe in for a daily #1.    That's something very few H!P groups or soloists have ever done. They'll be the first H!P group that wasn't a sub-g...

I'm really curious to see if the subunits start promoting songs of their own or if they'll always just release things as BEYOOOOONDS.  The Chica Tetsu girls are noticeably a little older than everyone else so I'd love to see them release something more mature.

[quote="JPope"]   Oh, this is catnip for me on a day off!   <div>The ones I wish hung around longer are Fukuda, Iichi and Fujimoto. In hindsight, maybe Linlin, but I wasn't really following the group when she left. Actually, I wasn't following them when Asuka and Sayaka were members, eithe...

I'm really curious on people's opinions about this.  There are a lot of girls who I wish had stuck around a little longer, and a few I think went stagnant but refused to leave.      Yossie is one for me where it felt like she was around forever .  I don't think the group's path would've been any dif...

[quote="Banana"] There are other factors besides poor technique that can lead to the development of nodules (singing too much outside of one’s natural range, for example). Also, some people may simply be more delicate and become damaged more easily than others. [/quote]   And god knows the...

[quote="TicTacAnyone"] I'm surprised Maa-chan hasn't developed nodules with how her voice has been sounding lately. Anyways, it's always sad when you have the "good" singers get these. in fact, it's pretty much only "good" singers...  [/quote]   I feel like a big part o...

[quote="JPope"]   <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Farrah" data-cid="218190" data-time="1564081497"> <div> Kitagawa’s voice is bland/flat in that way a lot of people’s voices are at that age, but her pitch is really, really good so I’m ...

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="DonJuan" data-cid="218191" data-time="1564082378"> What definitely shined through is that neither Homare but especially Rio have been trained by H!P before. Rio still has this light feel to her voice, not the pres...

Kitagawa’s voice is bland/flat in that way a lot of people’s voices are at that age, but her pitch is really, really good so I’m looking forward to her growth and think she’s a strong addition to the group.

[quote="Shoujo Q"] Tsunku is usually the one throwing messages around. But this isn't Tsunku's work but it does seem like something he would do and thus it's perfect for H!P. They like to make you think, but not too hard. The hard part comes when they attempt these translations into Englis...

Time for a spicy take! I... am not super into this, haha.  I am really happy to see that so much effort and creativity went into the music videos, however, the songs just aren't doing it for me.  It feels like some kinda typical H!P tropes interspliced with some (to me) obnoxious speaking parts.  It...

Mano Erina and Duu are pretty much the only H!P girls to transition into legitimate screen acting careers, right?