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Resonant Blue Positives

1) The choreography is amazing
2) Everyone is gorgeous, even the ugly ones
3) This is supposedly the unveiling of the “New Morning Musume”, or something like that, so we can expect more of their stuff to have this kind of feel to it
4) It seems more mature than other MM releases, as it should be; there aren’t any 12 year olds in Morning Musume anymore
5) The actual song is very good!

Resonant Blue Negatives

1) The B-side to this single is not worth listening to, let alone the time and effort and money that went into MM recording it.
2) The non-leads and Koha’s outfits are questionable
3) The 2 alternate PV’s aren’t interesting
4) We didn’t get to hear JunJun or Linlin
5) The next MM single will probably be a slower song, considering we’ve had 5 faster, more dramatic songs in a row

What other people think is terrible that isn’t that bad in my opinion

1) Ai/Reina Leading: While all of the girls have truly unique and equally appealing voices, Ai and Reina did perform extraordinarily in the PV and performances, with their presence, attitude, dancing, as well as vocally. They are both amazing leaders when it comes to being leads for songs, and I don’t think the rest of MM will be background dancers for the rest of MM’s career, probably only for this single.
2) The Original PV
3) “Prostitute” Reina: I think she looks fine! And she always looks that way, not just in this particular PV!

My Questions

1) Why does Kamei seem to have different choreography than anyone else in the PV?
2) Will future releases be similar sounding, or just “similar” in the sense that they’ll be more mature?
3) Why does Koha have to be in the semi-center when she has so many other projects and the rest of Morning Musume doesn’t?
4) Why does it seem like the smaller MM girls wore over-the-knee socks?

I’ve been waiting to talk about Resonant Blue until after it was released. I guess I wanted to wait to hear the single in it’s entirety, which wasn’t really worth it. The B-side is a piece of crap. On the contrary, Resonant Blue is one of the best songs I have EVER heard from Morning Musume. The Instrumental by itself would have compelled me to buy the single.

I am not sure how many times Tsunku has said he wants to introduce a “new Morning Musume”, but this version doesn’t seem much different from Onna ni Sachi Are’s MM, which I loved. My ideal Morning Musume would be producing work like…well basically like what they HAVE been producing for the past 5 singles, excluding Mikan. I feel that Morning Musume is going in the right direction.

First of all, I would like to point out that everyone looks better these days, especially since Resonant Blue, except for maybe Koharu. Takahashi impressed me the most when it came to looks for this release. Although they’re wearing heavier makeup than usual, I think the style and feel of this release suits them well.

The best part of the Resonant Blue image:

LinLin looks pretty decent with this release.

I know a lot of people liked the more PV-ish PV more than the original, which is more like a dance-shot, but I prefer the first one. The choreography is mesmerizing and powerful, and the girls look amazing.
The Studio Version is rather pointless in my opinion, but it gave interesting views of the dance.
The other version (I don’t know what it is called) where they’re walking around and exercising is boring, and my least favorite of them.
The dance is the most major likable part of this entire release or single, their image and outfits being second to that.

The thing I loved about this single was that EVERYONE looks good.
This post is so unorganized,  but I have trouble getting my thoughts on this release together. I give this single a solid A+ in all areas (:.