At the beginning of this year, "Uta Con"（うたコン）had the Morning Musume（モーニング娘。）gang to perform their 2022 hit "Swing Swing Paradise" which hearkened back to some of their jazzier tunes from years back, and so I posted the song onto KKP. Well, this year's edition of the premier Hello Project aidoru group, Morning Musume '23, showed up on the program a couple of weeks ago to display part of their latest single as we approach the end of this year.
"Suggoi FEVER!" (Fantastic Fever!)is part of Morning Musume's 73rd single "Suggoi FEVER!/Wake-up Call~Mezameru Toki~/Neverending Shine"（すっごいFEVER!/Wake-up Call〜目覚めるとき〜/Neverending Shine）, released late last month. Hello Project Svengali, Tsunku（つんく）, had written and composed the song before the pandemic erupted in 2020 according to the relevant J-Wiki article. At the time, it had been titled "Fever Whenever Joutou"（Fever Whenever 上等...Fever Whenever Top Class） but Tsunku ultimately thought that the title was a little too unwieldy so he went with "Suggoi FEVER!" when he heard songwriter Ken Matsubara's（松原憲）repeated growly "Suggoi!" throughout the song. Personally, depending on my mood, I can take the "Suggoi!" or leave it. But the main thing is that the group is channeling its disco side once more which is absolutely fine with me.
The song seems to be describing the paint-the-town-red escapades of a couple of kids in love. I've never had that sort of experience but I'm fairly confident that others can relate. "Suggoi FEVER!" managed to hit No. 2 on Oricon.
When, I first arrived in Japan long long ago I think it was Morning Musume's golden age because they were everywhere. No matter where I went they were on the radio in the background and they seemed to have been on Tv all the time back then. And, whenever I went out for Karaoke some had to sing one, two, or three of their songs. Miki Fujimoto and Aya Ishiguro would started go solo durning my 2nd or 3rd year.
ReplyDeleteMorning Musume's Golden Age was probably from late 1999 when "Love Machine" debuted to the mid-2000s. At one point, they probably had three or four weekly shows including their Sunday morning variety program on TV Tokyo or TV Asahi.
DeleteI arrived around in Japan in the summer of 2001.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I was there between 1994 and 2011.
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