One thing I’ve always loved about JPop is how creative it tends to be – unafraid to try new things and experiment.  With nearly every JPop group I’m familiar with, they have never “nickelbacked” it – every song is a different creation.  Some groups, such as Babymetal, take this to rather absurd extremes, but Morning Musume is no exception.

The last song I reviewed, Love Machine, I reviewed as incomprehensible.  This song wasn’t.  I understood exactly what they were going for.  The song and the video itself have a heavy middle eastern vibe, from the set decorations, to the dances, to the melodies (which were done in a very unusual musical mode for Western-style music), and there’s no way that wasn’t a homage to middle east culture.  Which is all fine and dandy.

The lyrics themselves are just a simple little silly girly love song.  Nothing wrong with that, it’s Morning Musume, after all, but at least they were comprehensible, and I can accept it for what it is.  Unlike the previous song I reviewed, I at least know what they were going for with it, and they did a pretty good job.

But with all that said, did I like it?  Not really, honestly.

Trivia:  Mari Yaguchi did her “sexy beam” in this one for the first time.  Whatever that means.  I wonder if that’s where the whole “beam” thing came from, like Nakamoto Himeka’s “Himetan beam”.  (In looking that up, I found out something interesting about her I won’t put here, but it’s interesting nonetheless).

Let’s do a Lone Star rating.  I’ll be gentle.