[8/28] Morning Musume。54th single - Wagamama Kinomama Ai no Joke / Ai no Gundan [#1 single, 144k]

[DARC1993]

Ok. I had the song on repeat for the last half hr and I really love it!

Ai no Ai no AI NO GUNDAN!!

Riho sounds amazing !!
And it's refreshing not hearing Reina for sure!! I like it.

[Obsidian]

And Haruna looks more-and-more like ~2001-era Kaori with every PV.

Finally someone else who sees this!

Here's some colour coded lyrics btw

http://colorcodedlyrics.com/2013/07/mor ... -no-gundan

[esm]

Idk how I feel about the song yet

But.....the fake trees are nice

The leaves actually move.

I love the song so much. Can't stop watching.

[321BreakinOut]

Took damn long enough... but i'm on the bandwagon as well guys

[Sohee]

I love the way they pronounce the "ai" by the way. Just like tsunku has his way of having hte girl pronounce words that start with "i" (he makes it "ui" a small "u") the way they sing "ai" is more like "wai" (small w sound there) and it's awesome. <3

[Zunu]

I like the tilt-shift look of the trees.

And, nice save, Duu...

[Mizu_D3]

Finally!
Ai no Gundan!
- the outfit, its pair-style. sayu-iikubo ; kuduu-maachan ; riho-ishida ; oda-mizuki ; zukki-eripon *CMIIW
- riho-daishi dance lead trully good!
- is that bonfire? from phoenix-M-now bonfire good! even match with the outfit color
- Zukki, you are great in this MV!
- Harunan, step by step, day by day, you give us (me) good performance!
- Maachan and Oda-chan, they need more lines.
- overall, 0-5 scale, its 4! sasuga momusu!

[Nayoko-Kihara]

I like the song and the outfits a lot, but I think it's time to let a fresh choreographer at least have a little input.

Parts of the dance were awesome.
Other parts were.. eh.
Some parts seemed a bit silly and out of place.
I don't want to end up only seeing the same 4 girls doing the most interesting part every new single.

I'm not nearly as excited about this as I wanted to be. I hope "Wagamama" is better.


Thanks for giving Kanon, Haruka, and Erina nothing to do again.

[aerosuffly]

After carefully reading the lyrics, H!P translator did pretty unimpressive job this time. Why did they leave "gundan" as it is but not translate it to army? "Army of love" is such a symbolic and elegant phrase. That aside, the lyrics are somewhat philosophical, probably making them harder to translate. Quote from ESTREA's translation Tsunku's blog about the song from blog! project:

... In this world, stuff like “There is value in being scolded”, or “Work hard while you’re young” are given out as advice a lot, but sometimes you end up wondering “is that really true!?”. That’s just the beginning of the complaints of the young ...
For someone like me who has spent more than half their life in Tokyo, I gradually start to feel like Tokyo is a second hometown to me [, and I am being successful here] ... Indeed, it is only human to always be conscious of what someone else has [and them himself]. But if you were more grateful for your current circumstances, I wonder if that is the split in the path between loss and gain in life? That’s what I thought.

Saying it simply, it takes a lot of love of yourself and what you are doing to realize what you have and not get lost along the way toward your gold. An army of love. Ai no Gundan. Something like that I guess. Lesson from Tsunku papa.

Btw, Sohee should post a better translation of the lyrics on Youtube of the MV when it come out, and we all go to Youtube and like her(?) translation. Then UF* will hire her as a new translator, and we can get all the insider news from Sohee.

[esm]

Tsunku's lyrics <3 <3 <3

I really like the H!P songs about working hard, keeping a fighting spirit, etc. The last two double a-sides had good lyrics as well.

They are nice to listen to on the bus at the beginning and end of my day.