Thursday, January 17, 2013

Morning Musume - Help Me

New Morning Musume Single~
Help Me!!!

I actually like this song, it's quite catchy
But this PV.. I'm not really feeling it. Most of Morning Musume's PV's don't appeal to me either but I just wish it just looked.. nicer sometimes. It just always looks so cheap. The costumes don't really appeal to me but I do like the variation of them (rather than just varying the colours like they usually do). The super computerized backgrounds look like a dating sim and the CGI looks funky in some places. I do like the choreography and think it's interesting so I think I fancy myself the dance shot version a bit more. 

On an off hand note, I like how in some places if anybody critisizes anything Hello!Project, you are deemed a ~hater~ and blame you for not blindly loving everything. I feel bad for people who try to express their opinion. It's like damn, people have different tastes. If one likes it, more power to them. If not, why should we disagree with their opinion? Liking things are subjective and it's interesting to see a different point of view. I see people hate on my bb Riho every day but I'm like, meh~ I think she's lovely and amazing and other's don't see what I see. I'm not a huge fan of Zukki or the newly added Oda but I see many fawn over them and I feel like if I expressed that, I'd be deemed as only liking ~popular~ girls because I can't see their amazing selfs and that I don't appreciate a 'good singer' (lol). It's a bit too sensitive sometimes. I just think criticizing a young girl and hating her is a little more extreme than disliking a music video but yet you're hated if you even think of criticizing the video! Yet, everyone can talk about how much Riho sucks bandwagon! Oh well, I've learned to accept it in this fandom. I've always liked the not so popular* girls anyways a la Koharu, who was hated on more than one occasion. I understand that people dislike Riho because they don't think she should be pushed or be center but I'm in it for the idols and not the line distribution.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'll keep watching from the sidelines.
I understand I contradicted myself in this post a little by saying that people can have their own opinions, but it feels like that with everything in hello!project with the exception of Riho (or other hated girls such as Risako/Koharu). It gets a little tiring to hear about how you just can't see how ~amazing~ these songs and PV's are and yet there's pages of forum talks about how Riho sucks. It doesn't bother me, but it gets tiring. Songs and music videos on the other hand are much more highly objective.

*and by not popular, I mean to the western fanbase. Riho and Risako are highly popular in Japan. I sense that western fandoms seems to love underdogs.