From Love Machine:
Nippon no mirai wa / sekai ga urayamu
"Japan's future / is the envy of the world"
The balls shown in that line were shocking to me at first, when Morning Musume was new to me - this came from a teenage girl band, from a country that not long ago was close to World Domination, but had succumbed to a Lost Decade. After all that, to still say that your future will be the envy of the world! A Japanese who said something like that at that time must have been viewed as either a hopeless optimist or just plain dumb. But hopeless optimism is why I've always loved Morning Musume.