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INFORMATIONS

Broadcasting date : August 19, 2024

Featured members : Morning Musume。'25 (Yokoyama Reina, Kitagawa Rio, Inoue Haruka)

CONTENT

・Morning Musume。is a group with 27 years of traditions 

Yokoyama: There are many traditions within the group that our senpai have worked hard to maintain over time. One of them is the bus tradition. The senpai sit at the back of the bus. However, if there are more than 10 people, the senpai sit in the front seats instead. These are the kinds of traditions I want to pass down to my kouhai.

・About "Nandaka Sentimental na Toki no Uta"

Producer Tsunku♂wrote this song with the thought: I struggle with the distance between myself and my friends, people of the opposite sex, and with my own weakness.

Q. What's something you're fighting against your weakness?

Kitagawa: Morning Musume。'24 unlucky representative. There's too many unfortunate things have been happening lately, like my lunchbox flipping over on its own. Honestly, it happens five or six times a week. I've been really unlucky lately.

Staff: Is there anything you're working hard on to be more lucky?

Kitagawa: A shrine tour! I felt like I wasn't very lucky, so I went to pray to the gods.

Q. Something I want people to notice in the MV!

Yokoyama: As an idol, you have to make cute faces and make good impressions on your fans. But in this MV, we're turning our heads as part of the choreography. We really focused on things like expressiveness and dancing. It's about "expressiveness without cuteness".

Kitagawa: The lyrics of this song are really meaningful. I love how that emotion comes through in the music video.

Yokoyama: We also used a drone to show off our beautiful dance formations!

Inoue: I love the part where everyone rolls on the floor. It's something we don't usually do, and I haven't seen many other groups use such formations either... To do my solo line right before the chorus, I start on the floor and then stand up. Sometimes it makes me feel dizzy, but I always do my best to sing as well as I can and show a beautiful facial expression.

Yokoyama: And during live performances, we're holding microphones, which makes it even more difficult. When you think about it, it's really tough.