I had some of my friends singing Sexy Boy at karaoke last night. The very people who can't stand Momusu.
The first time I ever heard a Morning Musume song was at karaoke. Two stoned Japanese girls I was with sang "Love Machine". Man, that was soo funny.
Was that mm-bbs? Or DAMN? I can't remember the forum but I remember the post.
Pretty sure it was the "Morning Musume a Joke?" thread on JPS.
Sure, they're weird, social outcasts and most likely pedophiles, but their dances kick arse. And if you think about it, they're absolutely no different to all the rockabillies and the wannabe hip hoppers in Japan. They're just obsessed with something different.
The way I see it, their opinions won't change my personal feelings towards H!P, so why let their opinions bother me? Do you think other people are weird for playing video games? Unlikely. Do you think other people are weird simply because they like something you don't understand? Nope, you just get on with it. The same should be for H!P.
That's the key word right there, which makes it very different to rockabillies, hip hoppers, gamers..etc.
Short story time:
In class one day, and I ask the students to take out their colour pencils, and one girl pulled out her Morning Musume pencil box. I asked her if she likes Morning Musume, and she gave me the evil eye and said in Japanese, she wants a new pencil case, because she's grown out of them, but her mother won't buy one, and this student was 6.
So, what I'm getting at, it's all fine and dandy to be a fan, but to openly show it in Japan, would be like being an open and proud "
Wiggles" fan in Australia. Way not cool!!