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I’ve not done a top ten on this blog yet…and since I promised myself, and an important person, more posts I decided to finally get off my butt (metaphorically speaking of course) and get this post out of my head and onto…the screen, as it were.
It’s taken awhile, but I have now officially heard every coupling track on 
every Morning Musume single (that I know of, anyway). I didn’t take much notice of them before I got to ‘Odore! Morning Curry.’ Usually I would skip them entirely because I couldn’t pick out which voice was which or they really bored me. That was before I became so into this group that almost everything began to grow on me.
That being said, I now believe that the perfect single means the coupling track is equally as strong as the main track. And by strong, I mean either that the songs compliment each other to create an interesting whole or they are both so catchy and interesting that you’re left wondering why the hell the other song wasn’t also a single. One example is an album track called Genki + (Sexy8 Beat) that I am terribly into at the moment. It’s an epic song and yet.
So, before we start: These are my opinions only, DUH. Yes, I’ve listened to everything and these are my favourites based on the coupling tracks WITH the main track. These aren’t my favourite SINGLES, mind you (that’s a different post altogether), but the ones that by my standards are perfect and that I like the most. I only have pics for the top five…because it’s a real bitch to find good quality scans of all the covers, from what I’ve discovered.
Grr. Arrgh.
Topu ten ga hajimari yo~~
In a group like Morning Musume, where people are going in and out at the whims of UFA (or whatever their company/coporation/bosses/slavedrivers are called) every couple of years, there has to be some sort of stabilizing influence. In a place like H!P, which is, let’s face it, completely random in nature, you can’t count on the songs, the dances or the costumes to remain sane. Morning Musume is perpetually caught between their ever-so-slightly-sexy image (Resonant Blue) and their ever-so-genki image (Mikan) and that must be confusing as hell for new members, who tend to be 12-14 years of age (READ: freakin children).
So Tsunku, in one of his occaisonal bursts of genius, decided they should have a leader. Usually this girl is the oldest or the one with the most seniority. As far as I’ve been able to tell, this is the one who looks after the newer members, encouraging them and trying to make them feel welcome; They lead the talk portion of talkshows, depending on the format; They make sure the other members are getting along; They keep spirits up during dance lessons and so on, Etc.
That is, IF they are doing their job right.
So I’ve devoted this post to the best (IMO) leaders (and to a lesser extent, subleaders) Morning Musume has had. In descending order of course – most recent to earliest.
With pics.
On the Sub-leaders…I’m not certain what they do. I suppose they go behind the leader after a command has been given and say, “You heard what she said. Get in line, bitches!”
Only nicer. Cause not everyone finds adding “bitches” to every sentence as funny as I do.
Yossy said in her Dokyu that Miki as subleader didn’t claim to do anything but, “did her work quietly”. So there is some truth to my theory that they’re seen and not heard. They are the ’support’, if you will.
Which is kinda nifty.
Again, if the job is done right.
