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Pleasure Principled
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Art and creation existed before the muses, but they were instrumental in aiding its creation by mankind. Such is the way of Morning Musume. If we treat Tsunku as Zeus and Heike Michiyo as Mnemosyne, the offspring of their shared time would be Morning Musume.
Vee indulges in some striking comparative mythology.
The wota populace at large gets eerily somber when pre-pubescents are discussed, and for good reason: two of the main modes of appreciation suffer, and the stigma isn’t worth the Novelty. Is it, therefore, our responsibility as wota who are distressed by the influx of U12 idols to voice our opinion in an effort to preserve what little integrity the idol industry might have?
Vee carefully considers the moral dimensions of appreciating U15 idols, and reaches some interesting conclusions.
The 2005 en masse shuffle group and the super-publicizing of Koharu Kusumi as a new “ace” seemed, even from a fan’s perspective, to be dying grabs at something transformatory. It’s rather easy to switch the blame around, and say that Hello!Project began to decay and the humor suffered from it, rather than what I believe: that the humor faded from Hello!Project’s idols, and the group began to decay.
Vee considers how some Hello! Project youngsters usher in a return to the good old fashioned value of childish fun…
Upon reading the news myself a couple of years back, I had to lift one eyebrow and wonder if everyone was serious. “OMG AYU NEVAR LIPSYNCZ!” and the like did more than just grate on my nerves. The staunch claims of artistic superiority were troublesome because I wondered just how closely these people watched the concerts.
Vee muses on an accusation leveled by one singer, Eason Chan, against another, Hamasaki Ayumi.
I nodded, not wanting to give it the gravitas of words, not even to say ‘yes, only once’ or something else incriminating like that. The fact was the fact, the simple glaring fact that was keeping me awake at night for three days now. I didn’t have a period yet.
A young idol faces unexpected consequences. Fiction by Vee.
I don’t blame these people for being initially wary of SweetS or Hello! Project. As is too often the rub with popular music, image comes before sound, and few can get past the “pedophilia parade”.
Vee discusses her personal experiences in promoting the joys of wota-dom to an otaku crowd.
The age of superidols is over, and it was that age which gave us these stars. Perhaps it wasn’t so much a prevailing desire for superidols as it was a public willingness to bite the marketing hook that avex started baiting so expertly in the late 90’s.
Vee considers how the past year went for the top three fillies in the Avex Trax stable.
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