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• Amuro Namie, Bennie K, Berryz Koubo, C-ute, DJ Ozma, Halcali, Hip Hop, Kishidan, Kitade Nana, Perfume, Top Ten PVs, misono

  My 2006 Top Ten PVs - One Year Too Late

  Posted by Ray Mescallado on 01.02.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments |  Print This Post

  Before I begin my 2007 Top Ten PV list, I want to get some long-unfinished business out of the way. I did a Top 10 PV list for 2005, which I enjoyed. I intended to do a Top 10 PV list for 2006… and never got around to it. I had the list made up, I had notes for each entry, but being a new daddy kind of got in the way time and again. I could skip it, but I want a sense of continuation from year-to-year with these lists, a sense of how preferences develop, how favorite artists fare over time. So, here is that list and some highly-truncated explanations:

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• Berryz Koubo, C-ute, Morning Musume, Thought For The Day

  Thought For The Day: The H!P Kouhaku Medley

  Posted by Ray Mescallado on 01.01.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments |  Print This Post

  As unfortunate as this year’s Kouhaku performance was for Hello! Project, was it all that different from the treatment they’ve been receiving at this event in recent years?

  For a while now, H!P has had to clump together various units under the guise of a medley just to get them in Kouhaku in the first place. W and Def. Diva immediately come to mind, and they had the advantage of featuring Musumes the general public recognizes, which the H!P Kids don’t. It would have been much more surprising - albeit more satisfying for fans - if C-ute and Berryz Koubo each received their own slot. It would have meant that they were recognized by Kouhaku as distinct groups with their own value, and not just the backup dancers and metaphorical little sisters of Morning Musume. That just hasn’t happened yet.

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• C-ute, DVD, Hello! Project, Idol Worship

  Idol Worship: C-ute DVD Magazine Volume 3, Part One

  Posted by Ray Mescallado on 09.05.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments |  Print This Post

  

  Since being an idol is as much about charm and charisma as it is about anything else, I’ll be looking regularly at various idol activities that don’t involve actual singing or dancing, reviewing how well the idols in question project their idol personae. To me, this is often much more interesting than the music and singing and dancing.

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American Wota 2.0

Postmodern Idol Worship