{"id":2412,"date":"2018-10-30T14:25:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T11:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kakko-ii.com\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2018-10-30T20:33:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T17:33:32","slug":"from-my-hello-project-archives-the-short-life-of-double-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kakko-ii.com\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"From my Hello! Project archives – The short life of Double U"},"content":{"rendered":"

When two Morning Musume<\/strong> girls and also best friends Ai Kago<\/strong>\u00a0(Aibon) and Nozomi Tsuji<\/strong>\u00a0(Nono) formed a duo in 2004 no one could imagine that this group’s story is gonna be quite short & turbulent one.<\/p>\n

The beginning of Double U<\/strong> a.k.a W<\/strong> a.k.a Double You<\/strong> a.k.a U&U<\/strong> was promising. They covered old J-pop hits with a style and got also some original own stuff. Their first single “Koi no Vacance”<\/strong> (June 2004) was an old The Peanuts<\/strong> cover.<\/p>\n

W managed to release 6 singles and 2 albums before The Kago Incidents. In early 2006 FRIDAY<\/strong> magazine dropped a bomb: Their paparazzi had shot photos of Aibon smoking in public. 18 years old Aibon was shelved and already scheduled releases of 7th single (Dou ni mo Tomaranai)<\/strong> & 3rd album (W3: Faithful)<\/strong> were postponed. In the beginning of 2007 their agency Up-Front<\/strong> calmed down and was preparing to let W come back. However in March 2007 followed another Aibon scandal published by FRIDAY. Dating a 37 yo man and still smoking was enough for her agency and Aibon was imemdiately fired from Hello! Project<\/strong>. The short story of W came to it’s sad end.<\/p>\n

And finally after over a decade lasted breach between Up-Front and Ai Kago was broken this summer as she performed at “Hello! Project 20th Anniversary”<\/strong> concerts in August.<\/p>\n

By the way many of us old H!P followers have been wishing that hopefully some day they could put out those in 2006 canceled single & album releases.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m posting quite regularly pictures from my large Hello! Project image archive on Twitter. With these tweets I bring my contribution as a fan to the 20th Anniversary of Hello! Project. These tweets can be entitled as \u201cMy Hello! Project History\u201d.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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