The hardest working girls in show business – Morning Musume
Morning Musume
The thing I was most excited for at Anime Expo 2009 was the chance to see Morning Musume perform. I have followed the band since 2001 and have never had the opportunity to see what their performances are like. After Anime Expo 2009, I believe these girls are the hardest working girls in show business.
Performers in the US make millions of dollars for their pop sounds and often justify lip syncing due to the choreography. These pop stars should sit down and take notes from Morning Musume. The group of nine girls move non-stop and it never affects their singing. At the end of the show, the girls were soaked in sweat from working hard and still smiling and performing.
Morning Musume is a Japanese girl group that sings and dances to typical upbeat JPop music. The lead group is called Hello! Project and that has all the girls in it. In the past the group has split off into small side projects. Mini Moni being one of my favorites.
Morning Musume is known for it’s changing line-up. That’s right, the girls graduate and auditions are held nearly every year. In 2007, Morning Musume added two Chinese girls to the group.
The current members of Morning Musume are:
Ai Takahashi
Risa Niigaki
Eri Kamei
Sayumi Michishige
Reina Tanaka
Koharu Kusumi
Aika Mitsui
Junjun
Linlin
Tsunku is the producer who created the group in 1997.
These wonderful girls performed for an hour with two very small breaks. Constant dancing teamed with excellent singing that made everyone in the audience stand and dance with them. Morning Musume actually sang through their collection of songs and sang “3,2,1 Breakin’ Out!” the official song for Anime Expo. The whole time they performed, the members smiled and interacted with the crowd. They barely paused to do a costume change. The one disappointing aspect of the night was the exclusion of an encore. Fans stayed about 15 minutes after the show screaming for an encore. I hope that Morning Musume will do a tour in America so that more fans have a chance to see these wonderful ladies perform!
Here is a video interview from the crew at AX:
Here is the official song for AX:
You can find the entire catalog of Morning Musume at JapanFiles.com.
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Performers in the US make millions of dollars for their pop sounds and often justify lip syncing due to the choreography.
So does Morning Musume. Duh. They lip synch too sometimes.
To Danielle: Not really no. Morning Musume rarely lip synchs. 90% of the time they are live. As for the salaries….they aren’t even close to millions. Japanese stars do not make the ungodly amounts that American ones do. Especially not MM who are not that popular these days in Japan.
Danielle:
No, they don’t. Just because the audio on the Concert DVD is a pre-recording, that does not mean that they lipsynch. Sometimes, the mixers choose to not use the live audio, for some reason. And Koharu is a different story, because… I don’t know, for sure (like everyone-else), but she has been singing live much more often (though, she usually sings live, when performing with others; usually is not live, when it comes to Kirarin).
=P
And background vocals do not count (where they have the recorded vocals as well as the live vocals).
Even though H!P rarely does that. XD
I’ve been into Morning Musume for only a few months now and they are the bomb!! They don’t go around acting out of control for headline news like U.S artists do and that’s what makes Morning Musume better. They are very humble and mature. I love them and hope that they do tour America. I hope they visit Hawaii again too so I can get a chance to see them
Danielle, This was the first time I have seen them live. They did sing and dance to a track (no band on stage) but I could hear them over the music. I mean I guess it’s possible that they lip sync but to me, they seemed to be working their butts off!
Just IMHO, they don’t get to be that hardworking. They aren’t very popular anymore and their agency is crap at getting them jobs, so they don’t really get much work outside of releasing singles, concerts and radio shows. In contrast there are other idols (this also applies to earlier, golden age MM) that appear in movies, dramas, regular variety shows, at events and as supporters, etc. on top of all the stuff that they do the same as MM.
Broadway performers do the same thing– doing difficult dances while singing– nine shows a week every week of the year. So MM might be one of the hardest working groups in the POP world, but there are other elements to show business. Just sayin’
Danielle, the only times these girls are forced to lip-sync is either when they are too sick to hit/carry certain notes or at large arenas where the acoustics are poor and the noise of the crowd drowns out their voices. Say what you want about american music artists but I think there are very few who have nearly as hectic and overflowing schedules. They work long and hard but never let their success get the better of them and change who they are and that, I believe, is a big reason for why they are so loved.
Nice article, Momusu is awesome! Hello!Project is the company they work for though, a sub-division of Up Front Agency.
It`s true. Morning Musume very very rarely lipsyncs at concerts, and their choreography is every bit as athletic as american pop artists.