I thought I was listening to Megaman X BGM at first...
and no, please no tie up or anything.

Lol. After the way things went this year for MCZ, the strategy for the marketing on the new albums is anyones guess, specialy after the things that happened just recently.
They probably will keep generating some buzz, but to actually release a single previous to the release date of the albums could happen, but im not counting on that.

Of course im no expert. Lol Anything goes in MCZ camp

AMomonofu said:

IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL kinda reminds me of Fate/Stay for some reason 0.0

It actually does sound kind of like Ideal White now that you bring it up. I'm pretty excited to see some PV-level non-tie-in songs - they've always done a good job with those, and Neo Stargate and Birth 0 Birth are probably still my favourite things from 5th Dimension. That preview is too short though :-))

stansfield123 said:

Ok, well, by that definition, I count at least six acts that are idols on the Red Team alone (and there's a bunch of names I don't know, some of them might fit the definition too). So is NHK really cutting down on idol acts?

Yeah, you're right about that. I always kind of forget about E-girls, and I guess the loss of a bunch of groups from last year made me think there were fewer idols left than there actually are. I would say though that NHK certainly isn't going to add more groups than they had last year, so the fact that they had to put in μ's and Nogizaka meant that other groups had to get cut. Like I said before, it definitely won't be AKB, and E-Girls probably has an assured spot because of their political connections with the EXILE groups. A bunch of the AKB sister groups already got cut, so if they wanted to get rid of anyone else that's idol-like, only Perfume and Momoclo are really left. Perfume has more of a tradition of appearing there, so I'm not that surprised that they would have picked Momoclo to drop out of those two. Like I said before, I think Perfume may be getting the axe soon too, especially since Kyary Pamyu Pamyu was dropped this year (unless μ's ends up being a one-time thing).

stansfield123 said:

Yes, that's what I meant when I said they're out of touch: they don't bother understanding the massive differences (much greater than the similarities) between a Babymetal and even Momoclo type group, and AKB and their sister groups.

Also, I'm not into Babymetal, but they also should be at Kouhaku. They have serious international fame, at this point. I just heard Gimme Choco on a prime time American network show two weeks ago. Another example of Kouhaku producers failing to understand what's going on with Japanese pop culture.

Well, from what I've seen, the Japanese fanbase of these groups does overlap a fair bit, even with Babymetal. I get the impression that they're seen there a lot more as an idol group trying to be different than as a metal band fronted by idols (which seems to be a common viewpoint in the Western press). All of them largely appeal to the type of young male audience that frequents places like Akihabara, and NHK wants to also get stuff that completely different demographics will like. Really, if you were to show an AKB and Momoclo (or any of the other idol-related groups) live to some random person, they'd probably see more similarities than differences, so I can see where they're coming from.

As for Babymetal, Kohaku is only really concerned with Japanese audiences (that might not be a good thing, but it's not going to change anytime soon), and Babymetal is just not big enough in Japan. Momoclo would have been invited on before them. I'd also contend that a lot of their international fame is just from viral exposure and people going all "WTF Japan" like with Kyary before; from what I've seen, mostly only people in the existing metal community, which is already kind of niche, really like them internationally.

Babymetal is performing at Yokohama Arena this december, and played at SSA earlier this year, so I feel like they're definitely at a level that extremely few idol groups get to reach in terms of fan size. I think its niche genre will keep them from getting chosen though.

momomofu said:

http://natalie.mu/music/news/166022
December 2
2015 FNS Kayousai
Momoiro Clover Z
December 16
2015 FNS Kayousai THE LIVE
Momoiro Clover Z

watch it live here http://wilsonjj.me/jptv/

^
Momoclo will sing Santa San after this.

Show's still running, and the two new songs are already in the Momoclo Songs Database
Boy I'm fast :)

http://matsuurian.com/mcz/songs/marieanne.htm
http://matsuurian.com/mcz/songs/wish.htm

I did hesitate with "Wish" for a moment as they opened their mouth but are barely (if at all) audible. But what the heck. Lol

and the two new songs

Had a small heart attack, thinking these were new Momoclo songs; and a fist-thumping-on-the-desk-in-anger moment to see the videos were set to private. Then I realised that these were cover tunes. OK, I can relax.

Fun performance of Santa San, with Reni's little magic trick. :D

Momoclo FNS on DailyMotion in HD

December 6
A-rin [TV] Geinoukai Tabi Circle 5