After School does Morning Musume

Korean girl group After School covers Morning Musume's Love Machine, to be the theme song for the Mnet and Hello!Project's joint audition show Great Tokyo Girls. The song will also be After School's new digital single. And instead of being called Love Machine its title is Dream Girl.
It was said After School was picked to do the song because many girls preformed After School's songs for the audition. And also because they modeled their graduating and adding new members after Momusu's original concept.

I find the reasons for them being chosen a little weird. Watching the audition commercials I mostly saw girls singing SNSD's Gee rather than anything by After School. And After School was modeled after The Pussycat Dolls rather than Morning Musume. Aside from adding new member Uee to the group recently, they don't really share any characteristics of Morning Musume.
After School is supposed to have a sexy and sultry theme to them, rather than H!P's cute and happy theme. If they were going to choose any Korean girl group shouldn't it have been SNSD? They are the closest thing Korea has to Morning Musume. Both song wise and large member wise.

With all the aside, I actually really love the song. The music has been updating a lot and has a nice techno vibe to it. And even though the lyrics have nothing to do with the original, I think it's a pretty good cover. All the girls sound really great singing it. I even think After School's signature rap in this sound sounds pretty cool.

So here's your video. Decide for yourself if they did Momusu justice.

Happy Birthday KonKon!

Former Morning Musume and Hello!Project member, Konno Asami, turns 22 today. Asami is one of my favorite Momusu members ever. So that calls for a major pic spam.

Happy Birthday KonKon!

Misa's Jmusic Survey

Misa of minna iru kai has posted a Jmusic survey, that she wants bloggers to fill out. It's an updated version of the same survey she had on vox.

Since I'm a pretty new blogger I didn't take her older version of the survey. So there's nothing really to compare it with. But this looked pretty fun and I never take surveys, so I thought why not.


1. What was the first Japanese song that you ever listened to?

Duty by Ayumi Hamasaki and Embryo by Dir en grey

2. Did it inspire you to like that group/singer, or did it turn you away?

Not really. I mean I like a couple of songs by Ayumi, but I'm not really that big of an Ayumi fan. I'm more of like a casual fan. As for Diru, I've been listening to them ever since.

3. What is the one song that you have been listening to for the longest time?

Embryo-Dir en grey

Jibun Kakumei- Miyavi

Shining Star- Nami Tamaki

True Blue- Zone

Rainy Days Never Stay- The Brilliant Green

Gothic Pink- Tommy Heavenly6

Go Girl ~Koi no Victory~- Morning Musume

Sakura Drop- Utada Hikaru
Zetsu- Gazette

I couldn't pick just one. XD

4. What group/singer have you liked the longest?

Dir en grey, Nami Tamaki, Miyavi

5. What is the song with the most plays on your itunes/media player?

Baby Be My Baby- NEWS

Shanimuni Paradise- Morning Musume

JPN Pride- Miyavi

Real Face- KAT-TUN

Janakya Mottainai- Buono

Computer City- Perfume

Kanfuu Fighting- Kanjani8

New Look- Namie Amuro
Nice Buddy- Puffy

Again I couldn't pick just one. XD

6. Is that song your favorite?

Some of my favorites.

7. If not, what is?

Too many to list.

8. Is there any one group that you can listen to all/most of the songs by? If so, who?

NEWS, An Cafe, Morning Musume, Miyavi

9. What is your favorite agency?

Hello!Project, Johnny's Entertainment, PS Company

10. What is your favorite group/singer?

Morning Musume, Miyavi, NEWS, Puffy


My music tastes has changed a lot since I started to listen to Jmusic. In the first few years I was really more about Jrock, and hardly listened to Jpop at all. Now I still listen to a lot of Jrock, but it's balanced evenly with Jpop now.
Currently I listen to mostly idol music. When back in the day I used to make fun of idol music. I hate to admit it now, but a few years back I did. I used to make fun of Arashi a lot. Arashi compared to Gazette and Dir en grey was just to happy for me. Which makes no sense because I still listened to other happy Jpop. Just not that often.

Koharu's Miracle Revolution

According to AnimeNewsNetwork Kirarin Revolution is getting it's own manga spin off called, Miracle Revolution. This one-shot manga will recount Koharu's real-life rise to stardom.

This is pretty excited news for Koha fans. Maybe this one-shot manga will spawn into a one-shot anime or drama. With Kirarin Revolution being so successful and popular it does seem possible. So maybe Koahru's next anime role and single are closer than we think.
Aside from the anime possibilities, this is awesome new in general. I'd love to be able to read or see what this manga is like. This will also keep Koharu's rising popularity up.

Just how hurt is Kanna?

As most of you already know C-ute member Arihara Kanna took an indefinite hiatus due to needing foot surgery. But as it get closer and closer to the time Kanna was expected to come back, there is no official announcement of her return. Even though she was expected to return in June, Kanna is absent from C-ute activities through September 27th. This makes me wonder just how serious her condition is, and if she's retuning to C-ute at all. Kanna went into surgery in February and it takes about 2 months to recover, so shouldn't she be recovered already.

Here's a list of things Kanna will be missing from: C-ute Concert Tour 2009 Spring ~A B ℃~ / Cutie Circuit 2009 ~Bye Bye Bye!~, C-ute summer concert, C-ute FC Tour in Hawaii, C-ute's 9th Single Shochuu Omimai Moushiagemasu , and Hello!Project Champloo ~Happy Marriage Song Shuu~ .

Now that's a pretty substantial list. It's easy to understand why she's going to still be absent from concerts and even the next single, since everyone heals differently. But why is she going to be absent from the H!P cover album? Most likely this album will be the same as Morning Musume's Cover You, where no PV was filmed. There's going to be no dancing involved and yet Kanna still can't even lend her voice for it? I find that a little odd.

The only concert that doesn't officially say 6 nin C-ute is the summer concert. Which gives me some hope that Kanna might actually be there. The summer concert starts in August. That would give Kanna 6 months to heal, which is roughly 3 times the usual healing period. If Kanna ends up not being at the concert, I'm not sure how good it will be for her returning. If she's not up to performing then, I'm not sure she ever will be.

I'm starting to really grow impatient for Kanna's return and I'm also thinking the worst. But Kanna's birthday is next month, so maybe we'll get some news then. Or at least a birthday shout out from the members.

5,000 views!

My blog now has over 5,000 views. And I really can't believe it! I remember when I though 100 views was a big deal.
When I first made my blog I didn't think anyone would actually take the time to read it. But I guess I'm doing something right. ;]

I've been blogging on here for a little less than a year, and it was more of casual blogging at first. I'd write a few posts each month or whenever I though something was snazzy enough to blog about. But it the past few months, I guess I've been blogging a little more seriously. Posting about news and more reviews, and whatnot. And for that reason more people have been reading by blog, which is awesome.
In the beginning I was kind of all over the place, I even mixed in a few Jrock posts. And I can honestly say my earlier posts were pretty much terrible. But I like to think they've gotten a lot better since then.
I've also somehow managed to get 5 followers. Which isn't really that big of a number, but I think it's amazing I have that. Comments are still a rare occurrence on my blog, but I still freak out about every comment I get one.

This post turned out to almost be a praise post. But it's really more of a thank you post to anyone who reads my blog. You guys are awesome! You should continue to support my blog, and send lot of comments. ;]

Morning Musume arrives in Korea

Morning Musume member Risa, Ai, LinLin, and Reina arrived in Korea today for the taping of DaeDong Kyung Youths, or better know as the Korean Hello!Project/Mnet auditions. The taping of the audition start on April, 27th and the show itself airs sometime in mid-May. ChanSung and JunHo of 2PM are going to be MC's for the Korean auditions. The 2PM members are going to meet with the 4 Morning Musume member on April 27th.

Risa, Ai, Reina, and LinLin look really great at the airport, as expected. But they also look really fashionable. Risa is rocking a Coach back and Reina is rocking a Louis Vuitton bag. Ai's bag is also designer, but I'm not sure which one. LinLin doesn't have a bag, but she makes it up with her adorable top.