HelloProject :: Morning Musume & Aya Matsuura News

We’ve known this day would come for some time but the day has finally arrived – the Elder Club members are no longer members of Hello! Project and the new leader from today onwards is Morning Musume’s Takahashi Ai. I’m hoping the Hello! Project website is updated to reflect these changes soon!

I became interested in Japanese music and subsequently Hello! Project around the end of 2005 and if these short four years there have been a LOT of changes! Some of the things that stick in my mind are; the disbandment and subsequent countless scandals of Kago Ai, Tsuji Nozomi falling pregnant and getting married, Murakami Megumi leaving Hello! Project and Ayaka getting married, amongst other things.

I actually first heard of Hello! Project in around 2003 through the video game Silent Hill 3 – there is a Morning Musume / Yaguchi Mari reference somewhere.

Enough reminiscing and sharing – bye Elder Club~! We’ll still see them do things through Up-Front hopefully!

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The End of the Elder Club

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2008.5.27 Aya Matsuura 松浦亜弥

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松浦亜弥
２０th「きずな」
２００８年５月２１日発売

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Long Talk!!

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Kizuna Download

Aya Matsuura – Pride (Duet)

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Chage & Aya Matsuura – Futari no ai Rando ‘ 08

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A few bradcasted clips of Morning Musume and Aya Matsuura.

I  Love the Disney parts specially Aya’s performance. 

Updated: Fujimoto links. 

Morning Musume & Aya Matsuura (08/05/05)
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Bonus!

Miki Fujimoto Performances: (will update as I find more clips)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OpI6uqI020

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mI_0O2_B2LE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsUeSJykoOY

There is also a very cute Alo-Hello DVD Release for Fujimoto if you guys want to check that out.

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Morning Musume – Mickey Mouse March

Quite a few M’s in there and the video is Very refreshing.

Love the Mickey in it, makes you want to join in and start dancing! 

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 Here is the new Promotional Video of Aya Matsuura – Kizuna.

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Enjoy!

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The new single from Aya Matsuura ‘Kizuna’ is now available for preview. Further information on the single is available here.

http://www.interfm.co.jp/n03_pro/fivestars_tue.cgi

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http://www.mediafire.com/?9yjmbjehwbg

(This link has been obtained searching in Google and Tsunku.org has no relation directly or indirectly with this link.)

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Fujimoto Miki is planning to release her new single and a performance is very recently posted on Hello!Blog and DohhUP! site. A few things lacking in her performance if we try to compare it with Aya Matsuura. Can anyone remember Aya’s very first performance and how she was nervous? It was for Doki Doki Love Mail and she performed in front of hundreds of people encouraging her.

With that image set in mind it is indeed very late for Fujimoto to start a solo career as she cannot support herself alone, and will always require a companion artist. It is bad timing for her and she should be careful about her next steps because any failures are only going to cost her more. Please be careful Fujimoto and do not take any steps unless you are sure it is going to work and you won’t end up saying goodbye to the singing career.

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On a side note there are a few pictures released of Goto Maki smoking a cigarette but yet it is not confirmed if it was a real ciggy or the ‘menthol’ ones pretending to be cool. Many fans are discussing on HelloOnline and I would highly suggest to not take it seriously. It is very common for celebrities to take alcohol and cigarettes and its not big deal and a lot of celebrities mature.

However, this is not the case with Morning Musume or Hello!Project as the members or the fans are taking it seriously. It will only make certain of the impossibility of her come back in Hello!Project and that is very disturbing, at least for me. The Japanese media is extremely mature and can hurt the celebrities and its the responsibility of the Hello!Project members to stay safe and no one can help if such images continue to appear.

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The new Morning Musume single ‘Resonant Blue’ is not growing out of proportions compared to Mikan. There is a hip beat to it but that is not enough as the last three singles including ‘Resonant Blue’ are more focused on the fast beat, just as I suspected before release of Onna ni Sachi Are. It shouldn’t be like that; Morning Musume MUST release a few slow numbers and UFA & Tsunku are not doing their job. They should learn how to play with strategy and use it carefully. They are promoting more in Korea and Taiwan once again possibly recruiting a few more girls from those places after recruiting Jun Jun and Lin Lin. There may also be some pressure from fans and other people from these countries for pushing Tsunku in globalising Morning Musume members.
There is another possibility since the inception of the group, the mass scale of Morning Musume is not easily managed by Tsunku alone as the most popular hits were produced in the initial years. Keep that in mind, any production of later hits are only timely released and were well produced before. That means sometimes production companies have to keep a few secrets in bag before they release it at a suitable time. And that may also be the reason One for All and All for One doesn’t include Koharu in the music video.

Here is a small clip of mugen I found on Youtube to make you all happy.

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Don’t stress out and keep on believing!

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The preview of new Morning Musume single is out in the open and posted many times on youtube. you can also listen to it in the following clip. All very quiet from Tsunku after giving some positive promotional clips about the group. Don’t you agree it wasn’t necessary unless their popularity was really going down? Something to ponder on while we get graduation details possibly on the next concert.

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Preview download is also available on this site.

Enjoy!

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