Bet for October have played more Morning Musume than any other J-Pop group and it's been eons since that happened. Their singles from the last five years or so have all been terrific and after a bit of a down slide they've made a nice comeback. But it's hard to beat their early singles from 2000-07 and really don't know if any J-Pop group can top those tunes. Won't be going back all the way to that era with this singles series as I just want to concentrate on the current lineup so will be going back to about 2013.
The A-side "Sexy Cat no Enzetsu" is one of Morning Musume's best tunes from the past five years, perhaps their best and was looking forward to doing this post. Hope that those who haven't heard it will give it a listen or two, have that video at the bottom of the post. The one above is for another song off the single which is titled "Sou Janai" which is another sensational tune. There was one other song off the single which was "Mukidashi de Mukiatte", it really is an impressive single.
Release date for the single was last November 23rd, it topped the Oricon charts selling close to 100,000 copies in it's first week. For 2016 and 2017 MM has only released two singles for each of those years. Up until then the group had never released less than three in their long history and quite often there were four singles in a year. Here's some of the covers for the single.
Like the outfits the members were wearing in the top pic but no other pics with the same attire. The bottom pic though features some snazzy apparel and these are promo pics with those uniforms.
Before I forget today is October 30th which means Mizuki has turned 21!!!! Just did a post for her a few weeks ago so aren't enough new pics for another solo post. However will be starting my top twenty list very soon and she should make it again this year so hopefully there will be some new things for that post, honestly does any Idol these days top her looks?
Also with a b-day approaching is Haruna who had her first solo post yesterday. Though there's been an unforgivable lack of posts here she is a huge fave of mine. What I'm thinking of doing is starting the top twenty list on November 7th which is birthday #23 which means she'll make this year's list.
There are quite a few pics for today but seems as though it's going to be one of the smaller 'singles series' posts or at least it'll be one without as much variety. Don't know why but there weren't as many promo things for this single such as cards or mag spreads, perhaps because the single was released so close to X-Mas. But do have a pair of 2016 mag spreads but neither are for the single. Will have those after this pic which is one everyone has been wanting to see as it's a chart with all of the member's heights, Idols are usually so much shorter than the average Japanese woman.
Easy to see who the tallest member, just a 15 cm difference between her and the shortest MM gal! Hello Project has some special mag issues that come out every year, they're not like AKB who have their own monthly mag. These here are from the H!P Summer edition but didn't see one for this year.
One more mag spread came out in December though it wasn't to promote the single. It was a head to head match against their H!P mates ANGERME and I need to work on more posts for them. This was from a one off 'Gachi Kira' promo for a December 2016 fan club meeting featuring the two groups.
Have finally made it to the end and that means it time for the "Sexy Cat no Enzetsu" PV. Live in concert the tune is more enjoyable but really like H!P videos as they're subbed in English. Hard to explain why I absolutely love this song but perhaps none are ever needed for liking a tune, kind of a different style for MM as it's not as upbeat but then again it is. 😐
