/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Okay, I am going to have to jump here this thread. I usually just come for the images, but after reading this I feel I reply.

>>6873520

Nope. The music really was better back then. I know this because it was the music that attracted me to the Hello! Project in the first place. Call it subjective if you want -- and it is -- but I can objectively say that if the music I heard back then was the music of the past few years, I never would have bothered to follow Tsunku's career. I became a fan of the individual personalities long after becoming a fan of the music, and it was probably close to a couple of years after discovering MM that I really became a huge fan of the members, since video dissemination via the net was pretty rare in the early 2000s.

People who got into any of the H!P groups around that time were lucky enough to experience the peak of Tsunku's creative period. He still unearths the rare gem even today, but from 2000 through 2003 damn near everything he produced was fucking gold. Fucking. Gold. He routinely adapted disparate musical styles successfully into catchy pop tunes, expertly arranged and competently, if often times spectacularly, performed. For four years. WOW. Not quite Lennon/McCartney, but how many other composers can claim such a run? It would be folly to expect that run to continue, and I'm just thankful that I was able to experience it in real-time. Those songs were superior pop songs, not merely of the same quality that H!P is currently producing. If someone disagrees with that, that's their right, but don't tell me that my opinion is subjective and yours is objective. It's impossible to play both sides of that fence.