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The connection of Morningu Musume and Japanese music history

taka(Japanese | Tokyo, Japan | 02/19/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Morning Musume is one of the most famouse idol singers group in Japan. But in Japan, the mean of "idol" is a little different to "idol" said in the world, that is, as the word "idol" is said "aidol" in Japan, the culture of Japanese aidol have evolved with Japanese cultures. It is very difficult that I explain about Aidol concrely because it is with the unique Japanese culture.



In Japan, "Aidol" is used to women singers, not men singers normaly, in addition to that, young, not adult, because "Aidol" is needed that put on showy, cute dress and cute behavior. Youth is Aidol's lifeline. When you listen to Morning Musume songs, will understand about such background a little.



By the way, there are some genres in Aidol, that is, Aidol as a solo singer or Aidol as group singers. Mornig Musume is the latter case. It is normal views that both Aidol types were born in about early 80' though there are some views among Japanese music commenter of TV or magazines.



The Aidol singers till 70' were demanded the techniques as singers mainly, but in early 80',the appearance of Seiko Matsuda, the most famouse Aidol and the pioneer of the genre, changed the concept of Aidol, that is, as I wrote she song with showy and cute behavior. For maintaining the concept, media activities like TV or radio were vital for them, therefore in 80' Japan music, music TV programs were very popular, and the some of cases were chart ranking type programs.



If there may be foreigners who know about that, the main producer of Morning Musume is Tsunku, he belonged to rock band Sya-ran-kyuu(was active about the middle of 90'). Off course he is reflected his sound techniques that he had made for the band activity, to Morning Musume's sounds. But Syarankyuu was a rock band. Why is Morning Musume Aidol singers, not rock singers? The answer is hidden in group aidol history in Japan.



The most famouse and the origin of group type Aidol will be Onyan-ko club(was active from 1985 to 1987, if include the solo and unit type singers, the number 1 top songs of Japanese chart were about 40 songs, the 10 chart songs were about 100 songs. The reason that Onyanko Club got the incredible sales was the promotion in the mean of commece. Onyanko Club was made in a TV program, Yuu-yake-nyannyan, of channnel 8 Fuji-TV. The program was a valiety show. In the program, many projects were made, thefore Onyanko got big popular, that is, were called "Media Tied-up project". When the program was broadcasted, Tsunku was junior-high or high school students, off course he was a hot Onyanko fan like many boy teenagers at that time.



After Syarankyuu broke up, Tsunku got new ambition, that is, he though that he wanted to make the Onyanko type group Aidol that he devoted to once. And by chance, one day he got his music program in channnel 12, while he used the program very well, he made Morningmusume in the program, and that was "Media tied-up project" certainly.



If you are hot Morning Musume fans, it may be good choice that you listen to Onyanko club songs and understand about Japanese aidol history.



"History repeat"



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Thank you for reading poor English."

Morning Musume 3rd Love Paradise

taka(Japanese | 01/03/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Well, what can I say about Morning Musume? This CD is one of those Cd's you can listen to over and over again and never get tired of it. Two of Morning Musume's biggest hits are on this CD; Love Machine and Koi No Dance Site. Both those songs are awesome, and then there are other songs like 'Why' that are also really cool. This is a must buy CD."

Kawaii ne??

Arisu | my computaaaa!! o.o;; | 11/21/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"morning musume is such a cute little...well...big ^_^;;; group! my favorite members are mari yaguchi, tsuji nozomi, and ai kago!! but i like minimoni better than morning musume (minimoni is made up of 3 members from morning musume, the ones i named, and this other girl from hawaii). my favorite song from this cd ish prolly....dance suru noda. very cute ne? i'll prolly buy it...when i get more cash....ja!^_^;;"