Explaining What We Take For Granted

24 05 2010

So the other day, a classmate from my Japanese class wrote on my Wall. Well, you know Facebook. Anyway, in our discussion of J-Pop, I brought up Morning Musume. And she mentioned how they are fairly new. Being the fan I am, I had to contest and tell her that they are most certainly not new and have had years and years of experience, singles, concerts, etc. behind them. She countered with, “i know but i still say they are fairly new because it takes a few years before they get known and with their constant change in members it get’s a bit confusing. … if you change members too much it’s not much of an official group because how unstable it is.” Direct quote right there.

Who knew only two of these girls would still be members today!

From an outsider’s point of view that surely sounds the case. But from an insider’s point of view, that’s like killing the credibility of a group that you like. I don’t feel mad like I do about other comments, but I don’t know how I feel. So I’m expressing whatever I’m feeling in this post.

In hindsight, I went way over my proposed limit of words/paragraphs, but oh well, this always happens. Pictures are dispersed throughout to relax your text-reading eyes!

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