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Singer-songwriter Aoi Yamazaki revealed in an interview with Nikkei Entertainment that after watching Juice=Juice’s Budokan concert, she felt “fire suits Juice=Juice — I want flames in my songs for them too,” and that feeling became the spark for writing “Moremi” (a title that plays on “do-re-mi”). When the story spread on 5ch’s Hello! Project board, discussion turned to the fact that the song’s live performances actually do feature flame effects, and to a possible link with the fire staging used for “Fiesta! Fiesta!” at the TRIANGROOOVE2 Budokan concert. The conversation also expanded to the group’s ties with other songwriters like Ameko Kodama.
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Like, "you guys wouldn't have gotten Moremi at all" lol
They sang it yesterday too — gotta thank Eric for this one
Thanks, Eric
Aoi Yamazaki shows no sign of leaving the singer-songwriter path though
Connections really matter — don't need Tsunku forcing his own songs on them
It's a magazine that's actively trying to sell copies, after all
Well, it's probably fine as long as they're not posting the article text verbatim
Both the members and the fans look like they're hitting peak excitement during that part at concerts
so this isn't actually new info
if Aoi hadn't come to see the show that day…
that was the first time Juice=Juice ever used fire,
and if they hadn't done the fire that day,
Moremi might never have existed — makes you appreciate it, honestly
It's true fire was used the day Aoi came to watch,
but they'd already done fire before, at Miyazaki's graduation concert
Wouldn't be surprised if Morning Musume gets covered next year too
Juice=Juice is basically the face of the group this year
Morning Musume。can bounce back next year too if they pick up popular or highly-rated trainees and audition candidates with real love for the group
actually turns into news value, gets printed on paper, and sold in bookstores
and there are people who actually pay money for it
Sounds like the type to illegally watch the live streams on Bilibili
https://kizuna.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/morningcoffee/1788856833/
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Aoi Yamazaki is a singer-songwriter who has written Juice=Juice songs including “Moremi,” while Ameko Kodama is another writer who has contributed multiple songs to the group. In the thread, discussion centered on the origin of “Moremi”‘s fire staging — while one theory credits the TRIANGROOOVE2 Budokan concert as the trigger, some pointed out that fire effects had actually already been used at Yuka Miyazaki’s graduation concert, cautioning against a tendency to retroactively construct a tidy narrative. Concern was also raised about copyright issues after the Nikkei Entertainment article’s content was reposted directly into the thread, offering a rare glimpse into the usually invisible tension around how magazine reporting circulates within fan communities.
※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “Aoi Yamazaki: “After watching Juice=Juice’s Budokan concert, I thought ‘fire suits Juice=Juice, I want flames raised for my songs too,’ and that’s how I wrote ‘Moremi’”.
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