Author Topic: [01/23/13] Morning Musume 52nd single [Help me!!] (Read 35187 times)

Estrea · « **Reply #80 on:** January 25, 2013, 06:21:28 PM »

^Yup saw the Music Station rankings on my wota twitter hotline earlier.

Speaking of Music Station...

うめかにょん ‏@umekanyon
みんなTwitterでMステ出して〜とか私も時たま言ってるけどMステには意見リクエスト受付があります。 http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/music/sec/opinion/ … 要望してから騒ぎましょう！私も今リクエストしました。選挙と同じ。その番組に文句あるなら投票しませう！ #morningmusume

Basically this guy is telling everyone who wants MM to be invited to Music Station to go request it on TV Asahi. I wonder if we can vote too...XDDD

I've also been chuckling at the random stories on twitter where fans talk about stuff that happened in relation to buying the single. Some fun anecdotes:

- On the release day, this wota went to the store to buy the single, and when he got to the cashier, the guy at the cashier was like "I wonder why everyone is buying Morning Musume today", but the wota was too shy to say why.

- This wota has managed to brainwash his roommate into liking MM by overplaying the music video in their room. So when he was talking about how he really wants MM to get weekly no.1 on the charts, his roommate was like "then why are you still sitting here? go buy it already!"

- my favorite story: This guy wakes up in the morning and his mother suddenly hands him cash and says "I just saw the comments on the Youtube video (for Help Me) and I really want to help them get no.1 now! NOW GO AND HELP YOUR MOM BUY A COPY OF THE SINGLE!" --> if this isn't epic, I don't know what is.

Oh look, Happy Music!

ShiroiChanUK · « **Reply #81 on:** January 25, 2013, 06:37:34 PM »

^ I'll quote this on H!O, someone there usually explains how international fans can vote

Those stories are hilarious

The cashiers comment feels more like an insult than anything and the guy in the 2nd story is doing what I would do

I managed to brainwash most of my cousins into liking Sonic

(This was before I knew about MoMusu

) The guy in the 3rd story has a lazy mother

EDIT: Damn, I was about to post that performance

You beat me to it

If you ask me Riho should've been the one lip-syncing not Sakura. Almost all her live performances are terrible.

Estrea · « **Reply #82 on:** January 25, 2013, 07:07:01 PM »

^Riho revealed on her blog that her throat has been having issues for the first half of January. Can't remember which post it was, but her voice has gotten back to normal only this week. The recording for Happy Music was a couple of weeks ago, so her voice was...probably not the best then. Then again, she isn't that good at singing though she tries. Fortunately, if you want to hear a better version of her singing Help Me, the Ikeburo release event does show that she has improved.

Sammi33 · « **Reply #83 on:** January 26, 2013, 07:40:06 AM »

I went and put in a request to MF.

The form goes: Name, Age (goes by 10's) Location (only places within Japan) Request (write something in the box, I wrote モーニング娘。に出演させてください！！)

Estrea · « **Reply #84 on:** January 26, 2013, 12:19:34 PM »

Hehehe back on first.

The sales actually went back up. :3

oaxiac · « **Reply #85 on:** January 26, 2013, 06:32:13 PM »

J-Triumf · « **Reply #86 on:** January 27, 2013, 12:45:22 PM »

Still at #1 with 5386. SuJu dropped to #4.
http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/2013-01-26/

Week total so far is 83786.
https://twitter.com/kitakunsan/status/295481094843817984

Will there be one last big boost at the end to break the six figure mark? Will the competition surprise us and threaten the ranking? STAY TUNED!

Estrea · « **Reply #87 on:** January 27, 2013, 01:05:08 PM »

Talk section!

initial · « **Reply #88 on:** January 27, 2013, 02:33:27 PM »

love the single but while I was humming the chorus I caught myself thinking of Eminem's My Salsa part at the end of d-12's My Band single.
sounds similar for me...

what do you think?

Estrea · « **Reply #89 on:** January 28, 2013, 03:35:50 AM »

Off twitter:

確かに。在庫が微妙なんで、よろしくです！RT @sanma39yuki: @tsunkuboy 　つんく♂さんおはようございます。オリコンウィークリー1位獲得に向けてヲタ側も在庫情報など共有しながらかなり頑張りました。

Translation: Indeed. Stocks are a bit iffy at the moment. Thanks! RT @snama39yuki: @tsunkuboy Good morning Tsunku-san. The wota have been worrying about available CD stocks while working hard to make sure the girls get their Oricon Weekly #1.

Statements like this leave me with mixed feelings.

Oh, they got weekly #1 at Tower Records Shibuya.

pOuNd／ポン助 ‏@pOuNd66
Tower Records Shibuya weekly announcement (1/21 - 1/27) - Morning Musume’s “Help me!!” enters the weekly chart at #1

Sweet.

Then again, all those handshake events at Tower Records must have counted for something.

J-Triumf · « **Reply #90 on:** January 28, 2013, 04:11:04 AM »

Quote from: initial on January 27, 2013, 02:33:27 PM

love the single but while I was humming the chorus I caught myself thinking of Eminem's My Salsa part at the end of d-12's My Band single.
sounds similar for me...

what do you think?

I can't believe I never made that connection myself before!

Yeah, I can definitely hear the resemblance. Maybe something to consider sampling if I ever decide to go through with my own remix of "Help Me"...

It's actually an interesting connection, come to think of it, with Sayu and Reina the only "familiar" members left in the group and all the new girls still being relatively unknown, similar to Eminem and D12.

TommyVD · « **Reply #91 on:** January 28, 2013, 08:25:09 PM »

Weekly #1 confirmed: http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/2021089/full/

Their 12th #1 if you only count singles.

All generations have now experienced a #1 and the group has managed to climb to the top of the charts in three separate decades.

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This single also allowed Morning Musume to be the 3rd female artist to have topped the chart in each of the past 3 decades.
They accomplished this in the 1990s (with “Daite HOLD ON ME!” & “LOVE Machine”), in 2000s (with “Happy Summer Wedding” & “I WISH”), and 2010s (with “Help me!!”).
The only other 2 female artists to accomplish this are Nakajima Miyuki and Hamasaki Ayumi.
Via: http://www.tokyohive.com/2013/01/morning-musume-tops-oricon-weekly-single-chart-with-help-me/

Congratulations.

J-Triumf · « **Reply #92 on:** January 29, 2013, 03:04:39 AM »

It's all over the news:

http://mantan-web.jp/2013/01/29/20130128dog00m200037000c.html
http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/entertainment/news/20130129-OHT1T00026.htm
http://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/entame/89700/
http://www.daily.co.jp/gossip/2013/01/29/0005703038.shtml
http://news24.jp/entertainment/news/1626569.html
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2013/01/29/kiji/K20130129005079730.html
http://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/p-et-tp0-20130129-1077995.html

I was waiting for the weekly chart to officially update before posting again, but what the hell, CONGRATS TO THE NEW GENERATIONS!

Is it bad that I preferred celebrating with these songs instead?

But don't get me wrong, though, "Help Me" is still a good song on its own and it's great to see it be the one to nab the first top spot for the group in 3 1/2 years. And congrats to Sakura for debuting with a chart-topper!

kyo- · « **Reply #93 on:** January 29, 2013, 06:47:09 AM »

The Only Girls Group & top3 female singer Topped the weekly chard
some fans believing current line-up are Momusu gold-generation.. guess they right

btw.. anyone knows .. who sing "nakama de ii na" on Nani wa Tomo Are! .. around 3:40
the vocal really similar to Mikity

it creeps me out

john_hung · « **Reply #94 on:** January 29, 2013, 07:29:27 AM »

FUCK YES

J-Triumf · « **Reply #95 on:** January 29, 2013, 02:56:59 PM »

The girls' reaction to hearing the news of winning #1, courtesy of the official YouTube channel:

winner · « **Reply #96 on:** January 29, 2013, 05:56:13 PM »

Really great hearing they got #1 again after so long. And knowing people are checking out Momusu again.

I actually felt the same as SW, about how the song feeling segmented and not flowing smoothly.
On the up side, it does have a lot of character. From the beat, the violin parts, the lyrics, the clothes, the dance, straight to the PV. Every bit of it tried to capture your attention. Which could be one main reason it got such great results. Mmm... nah... main reason was because Sakura was in it~

Congratulations!

J-Triumf · « **Reply #97 on:** January 30, 2013, 06:59:00 AM »

It's official: 93,286 for week 1.
http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/w/2013-02-04/

More reactions from relevant folks:
http://ameblo.jp/takahashiai-blog/entry-11459267703.html
http://ameblo.jp/nakazawa-yuko/entry-11459255598.html
http://ameblo.jp/tsunku-blog/entry-11459129515.html

Even Kago says congrats!
https://twitter.com/lovbus/status/296450966771859456

Rina the Robot · « **Reply #98 on:** January 31, 2013, 06:20:18 AM »

A subtitled promotional interview for the new single. Get to know Sakura and the other girls a little better!

First episode:

Second episode:

Third episode:

ShiroiChanUK · « **Reply #99 on:** January 31, 2013, 03:26:54 PM »

Quote from: Estrea on January 25, 2013, 07:07:01 PM

^Riho revealed on her blog that her throat has been having issues for the first half of January. Can't remember which post it was, but her voice has gotten back to normal only this week. The recording for Happy Music was a couple of weeks ago, so her voice was...probably not the best then. Then again, she isn't that good at singing though she tries. Fortunately, if you want to hear a better version of her singing Help Me, the Ikeburo release event does show that she has improved.

I didn't know that. She sounds like she's recovering though because her Music Japan performance was pretty good