[quote name='The Turtle Moves' post='90603' date='Jan 3 2011, 06:00 AM']pessimism[/quote]
I'd rather have age diversification that a giant group of similar girls - we've had that for the past 5 years and it has been boring as fuck. I don't want to listen to a bunch of 22 years old singing generic avexy songs about sex. If I wanted that, I would not listen to idols but would listen to every other mainstream musician <img src='
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But more importantly, it probably won't matter. You forget that one new member is 16 and Riho acts like she's 18. In any case, we'll have 12, 12, 13, 16, 17, 21, 21, 22, 24. Average age = 17.5. Average age when MM came to AX (with Koharu etc) =
19 (thanks Madara).. The average age throughout most of mm's history has always been younger than this current line up. 2nd gen mm averaged
17 years old. so they were "younger" than this new batch.
Aside from the few explicitly about sex, most of mm's songs are hardly about "adult emotions." A 19 year old can still be cutesy and the most emo morons I know are about 13-14. And it wasn't like 12 year old Kago somehow stood out and totally ruined Renai Revolution 21 or Happy Summer Wedding. Let's ignore the ages and be happy we have a group of talented, interesting girls again.
1998
14, 15, 15, 17, 17, 18, 20, 25
2010
17, 19, 20, 20, 21, 21, 22, 23
2011
12, 12, 13, 16, 17, 21, 21, 22, 24
We talked about all this before:
http://mm-bbs.org/index.php?s=&showtop...ost&p=78136