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In the second of their collaboration releases, H!P old-schoolers Melon Kinenbi team up with NEW ROTE’KA for this high-energy rock tune. Click through to check out the new PV, recorded live in concert!

Melon Kinenbi × NEW ROTE’KA
Pinch wa Chance, Baka ni Narouze!
Release Date: July 22, 2009

Regular Edition TGCS-5700

In the second of their five planned collaboration singles, Melon Kinenbi pairs up with NEW ROTE’KA for “Pinch wa Chance, Baka ni Narouze!” Like “DON’T SAY GOOD-BYE”, this single will only be available at Tower Records in Japan.

Tracklist:
1. Pinch wa Chance, Baka ni Narouze!
2. Pinch wa Chance, Baka ni Narouze! (Instrumental)

Promotion Video, Hello!Online stream:

Via Dohhhup.

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The official Hello! Project website has been completely revamped to reflect the massive changes in Hello! Project membership and I must say the new site is an improvemement on the last. The Wonderful Hearts / Elder Club division is obvisouly gone now and all the previous Wonderful Hearts members plus Buono! are now grouped together. Kusumi Koharu, MilkyWay and Shugo-Chara Egg are grouped seperately – presumably still an “anime groups” division.

Also now SI*NA is finally listed under Hello! Pro Kansai and Ice Creamusume and Frances & Aiko are still listed under Hello! Pro Taiwan.

Check it out! – http://www.helloproject.com

Read the original:  Hello! Project Website Revamped

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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!

Originally posted here:
The End of the Elder Club

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The title for Morning Musume’s upcoming single has been revelead as しょうがない 夢追い人 (Shouganai Yume Oibito) - People who can’t help but chase dreams. The single will be released on 2009-05-13.

Quite a pretty title I think.

Excerpt from: 
Morning Musume can’t help but chase dreams

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Hello! Project will release their 2009 Winter concerts on DVD on March 25, 2009. Released in two discs, one features Wonderful Hearts’ 2009 Winter concert (”Hello! Project 2009 Winter Wonderful Hearts Kouen ~Kakumei Gannen~”) and the other features Elder Club’s 2009 Winter concert (”Hello! Project 2009 Winter Elder Club Kouen ~Thank you for your LOVE!~”).

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[Hello! Project] Elder Club 2009 Winter Concert Preview

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