[1/23] Morning Musume's 52nd Single "Help me!!"

[AyuHikaru]

How can someone so pretty be so Goddamn nerdy? I love it

[Chibs]

honeychoco? nerdmagnet?

[randompasserby]

don't jinx it now
Anyway since pretty much the beginning she was pinpointed by Tsunku as "unusually pure for a Tokyo girl" and when appearing in varieties or in concerts/performances she always adds "aiming to become a refreshing manga-ota" to her self introductions if not the choco/honey line so yeah I love it and I'm buying it

[Amped]

promotion

Otoboke Pops 1/13 - guests Reina, Mizuki, Haruna

http://www.bs-tbs.co.jp/app/program_det ... MST1200700

[Amped]

short clip from the Tower Records event yesterday
[youtube]2OKG36Njl_E[/youtube]

[zam_ho]

Master Calligrapher Riho at work I can watch a video of Riho doing this all day long. Her writings are just beautiful. I have tried this and it isn't as easy as it looks.

Oh of course it's decided my the management. The girls don't have much power outside of talk corners and doing stuff like what Chisato did with the YouTube videos and such.

I like to think otherwise. Sayu has been talking about how she wants to promote her Momusu on interviews. I think this is just one more idea that Sayu was able to convince management to support.

I've seen artists do nation-wide tours before. A promotion campaign isn't that different really. MM。aren't the first.

Thats right. Up Up Girls had done it and are currently in the process doing one now, but not covering all prefectures. UUG are going to about 5 or was it 6 prefectures, and in each prefecture they are going to challenge a local idol group. First up is UUG vs BiS.

[randompasserby]

^In the end it's still the Agency that needs to pull all the strings and make it happen.
I like to think the girls being more energetic/proactive compared to previous lineups and having a charismatic, driven leader who's very open about what she wants the group to do does make an impact though

[Amped]

R25's positive article about Morning Musume's dance in the Help me Dance Shot MV
http://r25.yahoo.co.jp/fushigi/jikenbo_ ... 027579-r25

very popular article on Mixi right now.

[Pavlova]

I'm going to attempt a rough translation of the key points until someone more fluent can provide a better one:

-Blahblah new single blahblah release date, the dance shot became a 'hot' video on youtube
-It's easy to see the dance well as this is a dance shot with a fixed camera as opposed to a regular music video
-The dance is focused on formation, in the intro the shape made with the 11 members is like a big bird flapping it's wings?
-The dance is dynamic and complex
-The video reached 1.2 million views between december 22nd and january 7th
-A bunch of twitter reactions I won't try to translate because japanese internet speak is confusing lol
-4800 youtube comments
-Then something Tsunku said on his blog about the dance shot

[Chibs]

so where can i find more info on this prefecture tour thing?