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Pleasure Principled
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American wotadom has been waiting a very long time for Morning Musume to perform outside of Asia – and now that it’s happening, many of us are saying we’re going to make it to see this momentous occasion. I have no idea how big this is going to be, but I suspect that this will be the largest gathering of wota to take place in America.
Babble babble babble, as Ray muses on what MM+AX can mean for overseas fans.
If you take “Taiyou no Namida” by NEWS, and “Naichau Kamo” by Morning Musume, the mood of each song is pretty similar, and so are the PV’s. They both have a dance shot, and they both have two different kind of close ups, and one shot from each PV involves getting wet somehow.
Misa considers how being a JE fan deepens her appreciation of H!P… and vice-versa.
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.
He overemoted constantly, but without any intrinsic feel for the lyrics; the effect was like listening to a broken machine parroting human song. The words, intended for a young girl’s voice, seemed to warp and coarsen in the air. Towards the end he stood up and danced.
The conclusion of the story that began here.
It seemed as if the media were deliberately trying to ruin the idols’ careers. Or were the idols themselves trying to break out of the lifestyle somehow? Tatsuya couldn’t tell, but the news vaguely depressed him.
Part one of a two-part story.
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