{"id":682,"date":"2013-10-30T20:28:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T02:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=682"},"modified":"2013-10-30T20:28:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T02:28:50","slug":"idol-thoughts-evolving-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2013\/10\/30\/idol-thoughts-evolving-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Idol Thoughts: Evolving Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, reviewing Momoiro Clover Z&#8217;s GOUNN has made me nostalgic. So I&#8217;ve watched some of the older Momoiro Clover PVs, thinking about how much the group has changed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L5w6Q7TeLSE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XlbrTlhX_Ww\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The group is nearly unrecognizable. And I apologize in my reviews of MomoClo if I sound at all bitter, but it&#8217;s hard sometimes to reconcile the current group with the past group. <\/p>\n<p>A group&#8217;s evolution is something every idol fan has to go through, really, unless the group is very shortlived. This hit close to home with how much Momoiro Clover has changed, but, for example, look at how vastly Morning Musume has changed over the years since the group has formed. The group that put out Wagamama Ki no Mama Ai no Joke bears no resemblance to the group that put out Ai no Tane. I don&#8217;t feel comfortable saying &#8220;I&#8217;m a Morning Musume fan;&#8221; instead it would be a lot more accurate to say &#8220;I&#8217;m a 1997-2005 and a 2012 &#8211; current Morning Musume fan.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This has happened with other groups as well; I know people who have gotten tired of AKB because favorite members have left, or because they aren&#8217;t doing anything as risky as Keibetsu Shiteita Aijou or Seifuku ga Jama wo Suru anymore. <\/p>\n<p>This is a tough thing to think about, I think partially because you become so invested in idol groups. Idol groups are centered around the concept of support, that you should support the groups you love, but what if a group becomes something you don&#8217;t want to support?<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t just an idol thing. For a while I was a very big Doctor Who fan. I love the seasons with Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant. Then Steven Moffat took control of the show and it was just disappointing. Here was a show I adored, but was going in directions I just didn&#8217;t like. I haven&#8217;t watched the show since about the middle of the 6th series, and it still bums me out. I also really liked Glee for a while, but then its quality got so bad that it was not the show I got into. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of hard not to sound bitter, and like I&#8217;m not someone who&#8217;s ranting completely. I even like a lot of the things that current MomoClo has done. If the current MomoClo was a completely different group from the MomoClo I became a fan of, then I would probably welcome this group with open arms. But that&#8217;s not the case. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry to sound unhappy on a blog called Happy Disco. I&#8217;m honestly really happy with the idol industry right now, and there are tons of groups that I think are doing great things. But it&#8217;s just hard as a fan to go through some of these changes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, reviewing Momoiro Clover Z&#8217;s GOUNN has made me nostalgic. So I&#8217;ve watched some of the older Momoiro Clover PVs, thinking about how much the group has changed. The group is nearly unrecognizable. And I apologize in my reviews of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2013\/10\/30\/idol-thoughts-evolving-groups\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idol-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}