The H!P Musings/Rants Thread

[Zunu]

That's crappy behavior but I guess we can be hopeful that the reason it's newsworthy is because it's the exception and not the rule.

[Amped]

with all this downtime, Upfront should really think about revamping the Hello! Project official site and their Upfront pages and have a clean and brand new look without going overboard like some companies do. Limit the stuff on a page, and make the Hello! Project groups the bigger focus of the front page.
http://www.helloproject.com/

[JonCC]

I think it's pretty decent overall visually.
That said I would like them to implement https and an RSS-Feed for their news (both features their fanclub site does have)

[Zunu]

Keeping me up at night: At the end of the "Pop Music" MV, when the three pigeons "pop pop pop," in the background a bicycle goes by, out of focus. I wonder, was that a deliberate part of the scene to add a little touch of verisimilitude to the environment, or did some random person just happen to go by and inadvertently photobomb the video, and they just ended up keeping it in because it was the best "take"?

[Shoujo Q]

I was wondering why Beyooooonds Vitamin Me was sounding so familiar to me. Then I saw someone splice this song and their song together and it hit me like a ton of bricks. Love Hina was required viewing for a starved Anime nerd when I was younger and shame on me for forgetting even one of my favorite Megumi Hayshibara songs.

[Amped]

Morning Musume. 20's youtube channel gained 8k subscribers in the past month with a total of 416k subscribers
https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/mo ... umechannel

BEYOOOOONDS channel gained 7k subscribers in the past month (up to 56.6k)
https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel ... 4xyxBVSLlg

OMAKE Channel gained 3.4k subscribers in the past month (84.7k)
https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel ... l-DiYYNKlg

[Amped]

How long can H!P members keep making quality video content at home? It's going be another tough month ahead.

[Amped]

Before Japan's emergency lockdown of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building, a piano player played Morning Musume's I WISH on a popular public piano spot for tourists. He had a few mistakes playing.

[Jessi]

Have you guys seen Miki’s video on Up Front Link ? (Facebook)

If you remember from when she joined her English has improved by leaps and bounds. She sounded incredibly natural. At some points she even sounded native. She had a few moments where she struggled to remember the correct word, but overall I was super impressed. She must be working really hard.

[JonCC]

While on the one hand you've got the Japanese government making tentative plans for winding down the lockdown, on the other hand both KAN and Moritaka Chisato (both under UP-Front) have cancelled all their performances until the end of the year.

Will we have any concerts or events at all this year or is H!P going to have to reinvent itself for a little while?