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29. Rhythm Heaven! (Or Rhythm Tengoku?)

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MM’s new MV is exactly the direction I think they should be heading! Fun, melodic, the newer generations in their rightful spotlight! I think they should keep releasing more fresh, fun songs and add Itsuki, Momoha and Niina as a starpower minster-generation, break their recent history’s tradition and just REALLY go full force with the fun and friendly athmosphere and not be afraid to show the members personality and talents!

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I love this new single I don't care if it's classic corny Musume. I prefer this upbeat music to the sad stuff like Nandaka that was a staple of the Fukumura Mizuki era. This single definitely feels like Eripon's leadership and what it's represented. Nicely done, Tsunku!

Morning Musume's new song, "Ki ni naru Sono Ki no Uta" is soooo good! Finally, a fun song that doesn't sound like a rehash of a dozen other songs. I'm glad we get a bit of experimental chaos with some traditionally catchy H!P melodies. I know MM is in a weird place and has been the center of a lot of negativity lately, but credit where it's due: this new song is a banger.

Wow, I feel like Morning Musume's "Ki ni Naru sono Ki no Uta" fixed every issues the group had during these last 10 years !! The music genre and outfits are unexpected but still Momusu style, the song is funny and catchy mirroring the actual young members with their dorky personnalities, the choreo knows when putting aside the whole group to make the 2 or 3 members who are singing shine, the MV has some kind of setting other than the girls dancing on a decorated scene and shows every members equally with the close up, and the line distribution makes every girl shine even for a short time. Honestly, my only complain would be the song itself that sounds more like an album song or some B-side but she is also an earworm with the "Sono Ki. Makenki. Shinkokyuu" parts and the upbeat instrumental. I'm just so satisfied, I really hope the future releases will follow this path for the new era of the group !

OKAY so Tsunku's self liner notes for “Ki ni Naru...” shed such an interesting light. He straight up said MM can't really be the intricate and aggressive dance group especially now that idol dance levels are insane and the public's way pickier about what counts as good dancing. So instead of trying to keep up, he was like let's just make a fun party-like song. And honestly?? GENIUS. What makes it even wilder is that back in the Riho era, when Perfume and E-GIRLS were dominating as THE top dance groups, Tsunku went on TV calling MM the best dancers in J-pop, saying their formations were the cleanest in the idol scene. And back then? He wasn't wrong. I love that he pivoted. Like YES thank you for not forcing new gen members to do tight, advanced formations or really aggressive dancing when you have members who are more focused on expressions than doing perfect dancing now. There's a 2018 TV performance where they did a '14 song next to the OGs and Yaguchi was bragging about how clean their formations were only for the camera to do a bird's eye camera and show how messy it was. OUCH. You could tell it stuck with them too, Ayumi did an interview before she graduated that talked about how there was a split between the older girls wanting sharp formations and the younger ones wanting to express themselves more around 2018. So for Tsunku to now say no let them have fun with expressive choreo instead. It's so real. And they DELIVERED with this new song omg. Fans have been begging for this shift forever and the fact that even he sees it now. He even said that MM should be going back to the fun group that Japan fell in love with. I'm screaming. Hope they never go back, at least while they have a lineup that's like this. This is the direction.

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A radio segment from 07Nov2025 where Maa is talking about recording the vocals for Watashi no Nanni mo Wakacchanai.

She mentions that when she initially did it, because the arrangement was reduced, she tried to sing the lyrics with a softer dynamic/timbre , but the recording directors told her not to instead focus on bringing out the strengths of her own vocal timbre.

Google translate: "That was the first time I learned that, rather than matching the sound with the song, it's the voice that creates the atmosphere. [...] The voice is also an instrument. They told me that the sounds had to blend together. Well, my voice is pretty shrill, so I told them that it might sound too sharp, and they said it's up to me to figure out which parts blend together."

So at first, she sang the sixth-interval shift of "Ah-ah" [followed by "o-on-na nara, kankaku de, wakaru darou"] with a soft transition. After this feedback, she switched to singing it with a fresh attack on the second note.

More Google translate: "I learned from the director and Tsunku-san that there was a way to sing it that was appropriate for the scene."

The ironic thing here is that I don't hear that hard second syllable attack in the album version. The first chorus, the Ah-ah is heavily mixed with backing vocals, Maa isn't in the second chorus, and in the final chorus, she sings "sou sa" instead. Riho, Fukuchan, and Sakura all use a soft transition. But maybe the blend is the point. Maa doing a hard attack by herself would indeed be too sharp, but they allowed it knowing that they could mix with the other singers as need be.

(Maa also potentially specifies the post-bridge chorus with the reduced arrangement? But neither Riho nor Maa sing the Ah-ah for that one? As said before, they do the sou-sa line instead. Now, apparently everyone gets a chance at singing the entire song during recording sessions, but if so, then the directors ultimately chose to go with Fukuchan's soft transition vocals for that line instead of Maa's, so, uh. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

I'm reminded of this post, wherein the vocal melds during group singing in the chorus were nonetheless backboned by Sakura and Maa's hard attacks to emphasize the rhythm (with such over-enunciations being a trademark of the Tsunku singing style):

To add a little nuance to this conversation, please consider this: When singing in unison, I was someone who tended to leave it up to the ot

It also goes back to a few things I've said in the past. The more recent topic being how idol music, particularly for a group that assumes a rotating member lineup, may design the music not to be dependent on specific vocal timbres that won't be there in the long run, and so prefer an anonymized singing performance. But the best songs will be the ones where the most memorable singers put their indelible stamp on it, or even harder, the song will fail if they don't do that.

The other topic is about how oversaturation of tone will ruin a song. An arrangement that is already super cutesy/bubbly should not be accompanied by overly cutesy/bubbly singing. In culinary terms, you need a balance of flavors, contrasts and palate cleanser. Music is made of a blend of elements, and contrast is an important part of that. Which is something that Tsunku advocates for! That what a performers feels during any particular scene/song only matters as a means to an end, that end being what techniques they use musically. Vocals are an instrument, and instruments are agnostic to their players' internal states.

Thanks for the great translation, OP. This is so completely on brand for Tsunku, and something that he has been consistent on from the star

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What do Classicaloid and Rhythm Heaven have in common?

For those who aren't familiar with Rhythm Heaven, Rhythm Heaven is a rhythm game published by Nintendo. There are a few things that Rhythm Heaven and ClassicaLoid have in common from their characters, composers, and singers.

Same composer!

They have the same composer, which is Tsunku. He is the producer and composer of the Rhythm Heaven franchise. In Classicaloid, he composed 3 albums (Bach, Tchaikovsky, Badarzewska), including the following songs:

Yatterannai Kibun

Ai dake ga Subete Janai

Same rapper!

A rapper named U.M.E.D.Y. in "Maryoku no Aria" can be heard in "Dreams of Our Generation" that appeared in Night Walk minigame (Rhythm Heaven Fever credits) as the backdrop rapper.

Same singer!

Same singer, Hotzmic, in "But I Still Love You" can be heard in "I'm a Lady Now". Funfact, Hotzmic is Tsunku's daughter!

Same singer!

Same singer, Ayubee (Ayumi Takada from Canary Club), appeared in "Subete wa Ai Kara" and she also sang in "Struck by the Rain".

Same baroque composer!

In Rhythm Heaven, there is a minigame called Lockstep that shows a specific character when the game zooms out and the player reached the epilogue, which is Johann Sebastian Bach.