On 5ch’s Hello! Project board, a thread kicked off with the post: “So-called ‘tearjerker songs’ aren’t damp, weepy ballads — they’re a lethal dose of euphoric pop.” Posters piled on with bright, upbeat tracks one after another: Juice=Juice’s “Magic of Love,” Morning Musume’s “Happy Daisakusen” and “Kurakura Climax,” Wink’s “Sugar Baby Love,” ABBA’s “Dancing Queen,” and more. Some pushed back, though, arguing that “‘Magic of Love’ is about a woman who got played up and dumped, still hung up on him — that’s not ‘euphoric’ at all.” Opinions ended up split over how to read the songs.
Bet you didn’t know that.
So what’s your lethal dose of euphoric pop — the stuff that makes you cry?
A legendary track that dropped an absolutely wild music video right before it vanished
Hello! Project fans throw around "euphoric" a lot, but do they even know it originally describes being high on drugs?
6AnonymousSep 15, 2026 11:19
Morning Musume fans have been saying this for ages too — "Koko ni Iruze!" is an upbeat song, but somehow it makes you cry
7AnonymousSep 15, 2026 11:23
"Happy Daisakusen," right
11AnonymousSep 15, 2026 11:28
This goes for "Kurakura Climax" too
14AnonymousSep 15, 2026 11:35
For Juice=Juice, "euphoric" has gotta be "Magic of Love" — though I stan "Futo" (a member's fan nickname)
15AnonymousSep 15, 2026 11:37
Re: #3 Neither the melody nor the lyrics have an ounce of euphoria in them — it's a song about a pathetic woman who got hyped up and then dumped
17AnonymousSep 15, 2026 11:44
That's basically what people call "emo" these days. Bravo — total kamikan energy (slang for that "god-tier, divine" feeling)
19AnonymousSep 15, 2026 11:51
Viva! "Barairo no Jinsei" (Rose-Colored Life) gets me too, especially once you know the story behind the song
23AnonymousSep 15, 2026 11:54
Re: #7Re: #19 Yeah, this. I feel it
24AnonymousSep 15, 2026 11:55
Apparently people with mental illness can feel suicidal when they're wrapped in euphoria — because they don't want that feeling to end
26AnonymousSep 15, 2026 11:56
"My School March" / "Towa no Uta" (Eternal Song) / "ALL FOR ONE & ONE FOR ALL" / "Yumemita 15-nen" (The 15 Years I Dreamed Of)
27AnonymousSep 15, 2026 11:58
Gotta be Mrs. GREEN APPLE's "Lilac"
28AnonymousSep 15, 2026 12:00
I get "My School March" — MV included
33AnonymousSep 15, 2026 12:05
I like it when a song has a proper beginning-middle-end arc but still points toward the future
35AnonymousSep 15, 2026 12:06
Watanabe Misato's "Rich Janakutemo" (Even If I'm Not Rich) gets me every time
37AnonymousSep 15, 2026 12:08
ABBA's "Dancing Queen" makes me cry too — though that might just be nostalgia talking
41AnonymousSep 15, 2026 12:10
Furuppā, watakawa, kanchū, happy born birthday (nonsense syllables mimicking an idol-concert fan chant)
43AnonymousSep 15, 2026 12:11
Near Joy — nearly equal to Joy (a pun playing on the "≒" nearly-equal sign)
44AnonymousSep 15, 2026 12:12
Excluding Western music (・Ａ・) is NOT OK!!
45AnonymousSep 15, 2026 12:12
Just so you know, "Sugar Baby Love" is a Wink song
46AnonymousSep 15, 2026 12:13
Then again, what's the deal with people bringing up actual idol songs in here?
50AnonymousSep 15, 2026 12:16
Re: #46 Huh? Did you even read Re: #1? Pretty obvious what kind of thread this is, no?
48AnonymousSep 15, 2026 12:14
"Happy Creators" — the theme song of "Seishun Ouendan" (Youth Cheer Squad)
54AnonymousSep 15, 2026 12:19
It's old, but when I heard Lip's "Ai no Maryoku" (Love's Magic), Philadelphia version, I couldn't stop crying. That's exactly what we're talking about here
56AnonymousSep 15, 2026 12:40
That "blue skies go on forever" song, whatever it's called
57AnonymousSep 15, 2026 12:51
Euphoria alone won't make me cry — it's gotta be something like Spitz's "Kaede" (Maple)
58AnonymousSep 15, 2026 13:27
Momoiro Clover Z's "Hashire" (Run) / "Romance no Kamisama" (God of Romance) / Mrs. GREEN APPLE's "Que Sera Sera"
60AnonymousSep 15, 2026 13:28
"Come On Mix!" / "Whatcha☆Future"
Background and key points of this discussion
The word “euphoric” (多幸感), used heavily throughout the thread, originally describes the intense happiness brought on by drugs — as reply 5 pointed out — and it seems to have taken root among Hello! Project fans as roughly equivalent to the colloquial term “emo” (in the sense of “emotionally moving”). Judging by the song titles alone, plenty of upbeat, positive-sounding tracks came up, but as with Juice=Juice’s “Magic of Love,” some songs pair a bright melody with lyrics about lingering attachment or heartbreak — and the thread’s central idea was that this very gap between sound and lyrics is what actually makes a song “tearjerking.” The songs cited span generations and genres, from Morning Musume and Wink to ABBA and Mrs. GREEN APPLE, showing the conversation spread well beyond Hello! Project into music in general. That said, opinions stayed split on whether “Magic of Love” truly counts as “euphoric,” and no clear consensus was reached.
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