J-Music Clip Of the Week...

Artist: Morning Musume
Single: Chokkan 2 - Nigashita Sakana wa Ookiizo!

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Chokkan 2 - Nigashita Sakana wa Ookiizo! preview

Chokkan 2 - Nigashita Sakana wa Ookiizo! DL

...sure is a bunch of members in the group isn't there?..but I think the most Morning Musume members at one time was 15...man, imagine traveling around with a group of 15 girls day in, day out and having to put up with there incessant playfulness and constant tickle fights!!..you know what I call that?...my DREAM JOB....

and little bit about the group:

Morning Musume, literally “morning daughter”, is a pop culture phenomena that launched in 1997. While in some ways reminiscent of Onyanko Club (or in American terms something like a cross between American Idol and Menudo), Morning Musume has gone further, showed more staying power, and in fact gone from being a very popular idol group to a full on pop culture franchise. It all started on the TV show Asayan, on a show featuring musician/producer Tsunku, of the moderately popular band Sharan Q. He ran an audition segment looking for a teenage female vocalist, the competition won by Heike Michiyo. However her first single did not do so well. He decided then to try a group, composed of five contest runner ups. However to hedge his chances of success and add drama to the situation, he said he would only work with the group (write their songs and produce) if they could sell 50,000 copies of their first single Aine No Tane in five days by themselves (and of course the power of national TV exposure). And so the nation watched as the girls pleaded with family, friends and strangers on the street hoping to sell the CD and launch themselves as pop stars.

it didn't mention it in the little blurb but the members of Morning Musume are always changing...kinda like Menudo...and usually go on to successful solo careers..unlike Menudo..