{"id":15,"date":"2006-09-16T15:26:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T12:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kakko-ii.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2006-09-16T15:32:01","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T12:32:01","slug":"2001-vs-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kakko-ii.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"2001 vs. 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched Morning Musume&#8217;s <strong>Green Live<\/strong> dvd from 2001 last night. It&#8217;s a bare document where MM and it&#8217;s sub-groups perform some of their hits in the middle of baseball stadium. That.s why it&#8217;s called Green Live. No stage setting, no fancy lights, no changing costumes, just girls doing their songs with a couple of light spots. As\u00a0I said, it&#8217;s bare but so nostalgic.<\/p>\n<p>This concert was the end of one MM era because 5th gen members were joining the lineup soon and <strong>Yuko<\/strong> had just graduated.<\/p>\n<p>When I watch MM doing those best-of-the-best songs like <strong>I Wish<\/strong>, <strong>Love Machine<\/strong> and <strong>Renai Revolution 21<\/strong>, I can&#8217;t help me falling in to deep nostalgic state. Am I going to sound like my grandpa? Anyway, there is also <strong>Tanpopo<\/strong> (Kaori, Mari, Rika &#038; Aibon) performing <strong>Koi wo Shichaimasita<\/strong>, <strong>Mini Moni<\/strong> with <strong>Jyanken Pyon<\/strong> and <strong>Maki<\/strong> singing her first single hit <strong>Ai no Bakayarou<\/strong> with that angular choreography.<\/p>\n<p>And today, we are in front of same kind of situation. <strong>Happy8<\/strong> auditions are in progress and one or more new members are going to join the gang in the beginning of next year. <strong>Konno<\/strong> &#038; <strong>Makoto<\/strong> have graduated and we never know if there is gonna be even more graduations before MM&#8217;s new lineup is announced. My fuzzy guess is that there will be. Only time will tell how completely wrong I was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched Morning Musume&#8217;s Green Live dvd from 2001 last night. It&#8217;s a bare document where MM and it&#8217;s sub-groups perform some of their hits in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mm-hello-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kakko-ii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kakko-ii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kakko-ii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kakko-ii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kakko-ii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kakko-ii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kakko-ii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kakko-ii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kakko-ii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}