Article on Morning Musume, Johnny's and music industry

[*Petit*]

Originally Posted by devilayu

No matter what you think of the paper, the article is right on target regarding parts of the Japanese entertainment industry. Though I'm a fan of Morning Musume myself, I know for sure that their popularity is due to the lolita complex many Japanese men have. Some statements about how Tsunku chooses the girls are frighteningly astute (though, as with anything, it's not the case all the time)

Yes, some things in the article is quite obious, like the fact that Tsunku doesen't pick out "perfect" girls. Most girls of morning musume have some "handicap". This is true for most idols though, at least the young ones. This increases the innocent not-being-able-to-take-care-of-myself factor. Even in the singing style of morning musume this is quite clear (the whining sound to it).

Originally Posted by *Petit*

Yes, some things in the article is quite obious, like the fact that Tsunku doesen't pick out "perfect" girls. Most girls of morning musume have some "handicap". This is true for most idols though, at least the young ones. This increases the innocent not-being-able-to-take-care-of-myself factor. Even in the singing style of morning musume this is quite clear (the whining sound to it).

So true:

Kago - weight
Nozomi - Teeth
Kaori - Height
Mari - Height
Miki - Attitude
Hitomi - Masculinity
etc..

[superdonut]

Originally Posted by j_nerd

So true:

Kago - weight
Nozomi - Teeth
Kaori - Height
Mari - Height
Miki - Attitude
Hitomi - Masculinity
etc..

Wow... that's so true... But I kind of liked that. I always noticed that Kago was slightly bigger than the other girls, and I thought it was nice, that they all weren't copies... And Kaori too... so tall~~

I already knew about this though (and I only read about half of the article), and I know how comercialized they are, but they are so different from western music... and I just really love them... they are so cute ^^; And they also seem like good role models....

[*Petit*]

The weird thing about Tsunku's music (especially the morning musume) is that allthough it's something totally new in many ways there's VERY often something that seems really really close to another hit song. I'm not trying to suggest that he is plagiarizing, because he makes it so unique that it would be inappropriate to call it that. But as the article suggests, he "steals" or borrows a lot. Who diden't think of donna summer's "hot stuff" when they heard the instrumental melody in "happy summer wedding"?

[HanabiChick]

Originally Posted by *Petit*

The weird thing about Tsunku's music (especially the morning musume) is that allthough it's something totally new in many ways there's VERY often something that seems really really close to another hit song. I'm not trying to suggest that he is plagiarizing, because he makes it so unique that it would be inappropriate to call it that. But as the article suggests, he "steals" or borrows a lot. Who diden't think of donna summer's "hot stuff" when they heard the instrumental melody in "happy summer wedding"?

I noticed that too... there was one song, I can't remember the name of it, that heavily sampled one old song. I thought that he might have just used samples in the songs.