[11/23] Morning Musume. ‘16 62nd single - Sexy Cat no Enzetsu / Mukidashi de Mukiatte / Sou ja nai

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Limited Edition A DVD
1.Sexy Cat no Enzetsu (Music Video) 5m 30s

Limited Edition B DVD
1.Mukidashi de Mukiatte (Music Video) 5m 21s

Limited Edition C DVD
1.Sou ja nai (Music Video) 7m 29s

http://helloproject.com/release/detail/EPCE-7259/

Sou Janai PV is 7 minutes… maybe there will be a story to it like I WISH long version?

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Sexy Cat no Enzetsu MV has hit 500,000 views


Sexy Cat no Enzetsu MV hit 500,000 views (4 days) much faster than C-ute's Mugen Climax MV (9 days).

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Limit tied A's cover would actually make a pretty best album cover

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TV promotion

Sexy Cat no Enzetsu MV aired on TV at 8pm on Halloween Night.
http://www.m-on.jp/program/detail/sakidori/

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Promotion events

Morning Musume. '16 Mini Live & Handshake event Ikebukuro Sunshine City Fountain Square, 11/16
http://www.helloproject.com/event/detai ... 11f9fa6039

Talk & Handshake event at HMV Sapporo Stellar place, 11/22 - Ayumi, Masaki, Nonaka
http://www.helloproject.com/event/detai ... ea22a2c1e7

Talk & Handshake event at HMV&BOOKS TOKYO, 11/22 - Oda, Makino, Haga
http://www.helloproject.com/event/detai ... 0bba6e85f9

Release Day :

Morning Musume. '16 Handshake event (morning) before the Morning Musume. '16 concerts in Osaka, 11/23
http://www.helloproject.com/event/detai ... a08a2c4184

Morning Musume. '16 has a concert on a Wednesday, and on new single release day 11/23. That doesn't happen often.
http://www.helloproject.com/event/detai ... 356229f5d/

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Sou ja nai MV (Hello! Station Edit)
https://youtu.be/CAeajVBgSws?t=43s

new center Makino Maria

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I was really hoping for the Mukidashi PV this week. That opening was all sorts of awkward. Sou Ja nai is probably my least favorite song on this single. Very unoriginal. Though I do like how they masked the lack of Duu in the dance shot.

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^The way they worked around Duu was the way this should have always been handled with MM in these situations. But it does feel like this single is much less "formation dance" than MM used to be.

As a song itself, I'm in the party of "this would have been a great album track" myself. It's a good song, but it doesn't POP the way the other two do. The video is beautiful, as is Maria, but the over-push of Maria is a bit extreme. Not even Riho was pushed that hard in a single video, until her graduation one of course. She usually would dance/sing/have visual focus with one other girl (Ayumi-dance, Sakura-sing, Sayu-visual focus). Maria is great, but I'm not sure she's going to be what they want her to be. Personally I think she needs a bit longer to "incubate" before being pushed as center, but it could be they're just testing the waters with the weakest of the A-sides, sort of like how they tested the waters with Nonaka for Ima Sugu.

I'm most interested to see Mukidashi though. Do we know who's supposed to be "center" for that? I know that the singing is pretty well distrubuted.

Oh... and Sakura is looking really good here as well, I adore her make-up. Is this the first single where she's been styled with bangs for everything since Brainstorming? Something, either the make-up, the bangs, or some confidence increase, is really working for her.