Bikkuri Project

This first paragraph is going to be the same in both of my blogs. Just giving you a heads up.

Hey guys. I have officially returned from my spring break camp-o-rama, and I’m pleased to see that nothing HUGE happened while I was gone. I was so worried all week. If you were wondering what all I was doing, my school has an ‘alternative spring break’ program where instead of partying all night and sleeping all day, a group of 15 or so students spend the week doing ’service learning’. My particular trip focused on nature, so that meant I spent the week doing stuff like camping, surveying streams, removing invasive species, building trails, and planting trees. It was usually too cold to sleep, even with 12 or so layers of clothing on, we routinely got stuck in thigh-high mud, and my arms look like I lost a fight with an angry cat (blackberries are the devil), but I had a truly awesome time. What does this have to do with Jpop, you might ask? Well, 4 of our resident Japanese exchange students participated in the trip, and so I had the chance to get pretty close with them and learn a bit about their opinions on my favorite music. Our sample group is made up of female sophmores in college, all around 20 years old.

So, they weren’t all that interested in Hello Project, but that was to be expected I suppose. What I did find out is that they knew most of the words to a lot of the songs, including Shabondama, though they weren’t familiar with anything in the last year or two. Collectively they could name all of the members through Koharu, but they knew nothing about 8th gen. In general, they seemed to regard h!p as something kind of funny and nostalgic, but rather uncool to be interested in at their age. The situation seemed like  someone in America today declaring themselves a big fan of Ace of Base. Sure I remember the songs and I’ll sing along for fun, but there’s no way I’ll take them or their music seriously anymore.

As the unrelated note of the day, I just realized that MM’s Cinderella will be playing while I’m in Japan, so I’m going to be able to see it. I got shivers just typing that. Not, “oh I wish I could see that…” but, “I am going to see Morning Musume perform Cinderella!” Also, I am likely going to be buying the DVD of their Spring Concert, but I won’t have to wait for it to be delivered because I’m going to buy it in Japan!! How freaking awesome is that?

I’ll be back with a proper post once I catch up to everything I’ve missed this week. It could take a while…

HAGS,

~Celestia~

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