'Rainbow 7' is the 7th CD album released by Morning Musume, the all-girl J-pop sensation now nearing their tenth year of performing. This one's a bit different from their previous albums and a big improvement over albums 5 and 6.
2017 marks an important anniversary – it is the 20th anniversary of the formation of Morning Musume. While the group has had many iterations, 13 generations of members, name changes and both waxing and waning popularity over the years, 20 years is a major achievement for a group. This is especially notable given Morning Musume’s recent resurgence in popularity – while Morning Musume has been around for almost 20 years, I can’t see it going away any time soon. To commemorate this I’ve decided to review all of the main Morning Musume albums through 2017, First Time through 14 Shou ~The Message~ or any Morning Musume album that comes out this year.
I won’t be covering the two best of albums nor the updated album. The main goal will be to see just how Morning Musume has evolved over these 20 years. Rainbow 7 is a weird album for me, personally. It’s after the peak of my Morning Musume interest, as an Ishikawa Rika fan, has passed, but before the first album I was aware of coming out, Platinum 9 Disc. It’s in a weird transitional period that honestly lasted quite a few years – the only member left who has any real ties to the golden era is Yoshizawa Hitomi, and while Kusumi Koharu has joined the group as the ‘miracle’ the group just didn’t have an identity at this time, really until the Platinum era with stuff like Resonant Blue.
Maybe if you’re a particular fan of the intact 5th and 6th generations of the group this time is special, but for a long while Morning Musume feels particularly aimless. While this has happened again (I’d argue that after the end of the Platinum Era Morning Musume spent a good couple of years trying to figure out their identity as a group), it’s really the first time as a group, though it’d been a long time coming. I do like the basic concept of the album, which is colors – quite a few of the songs have a color theme to them, which is a nice touch. Most Hello!Project albums are little more than a collection of songs with some added album songs, so giving a loose connection tying this together is a good touch. This is also one of my favorite album covers, so good job Morning Musume for having interesting album art (which can sometimes be rare, to put it lightly).
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How Do You Like Japan? Nihon wa Donna Kanji Dekka? This song was made for live performances. It’s the perfect song to pump up an audience and to let the members of Morning Musume go a little wild while performing. There’s a reason How Do You Like Japan?
Has been performed more than any other non-single song on Rainbow 7 – it’s a great live song, and one that’s been performed (for good reason) outside of Japan for international concerts. It’s also a really great place to start an album, with so much energy. How Do You Like Japan’s fatal flaw, though, is that it’s so geared towards live performances that it’s not really the most fun song to listen to when you’re sitting at home. It’s not a bad song, and if you’re looking for something to pump you up it’s a good one. But the instrumental can be a bit empty at points and the pacing is a little bit slow for solo listening without any cheering in the background. I don’t know if this is a bad thing – having a song aimed at live shows is fine.
But it means that How Do You Like Japan is a song I’d be really excited for at a show but that I don’t listen to at home much. The Man Power!!! The Manpower is a fun song – it’s never been one of my all time favorites but it’s likewise never been a song I’ve disliked. I think the thing I like about it so much is that the song has a great energy to it. I like the repetitive nature of the song contrasted with Takahashi Ai and Yoshizawa Hitomi alternating vocals. It works really well and the entire song feels like it has power and energy in a way idol songs often don’t.
I also particularly like the instrumental, though I think a lot of songs from this era just sound a little empty to me. There is a good contrast between some electronic sound and some horns that works well for me. The Manpower isn’t extraordinary – it’s never blown me away as a single but it’s a nice, little song that has some power.
It’s a little goofy, fun, and while it’s not quite on the level of something from Golden Era Morning Musume it doesn’t have to be. Aozora ga Itsumademo Tsuzuku You na Mirai de Are!
I mostly know this song from the Dream Morning Musume cover, which I do prefer to this song. But I think it says a lot that one of the songs chosen for the Dream Morning Musume album, which mostly covered relatively well known tracks, to do this song from Rainbow 7. While How Do You Like Japan has had more concert performances, Aozora ga Itsumademo Tsuzuku You na Mirai de Are has had a huge impact, and for good reason – it’s a pretty great song. It’s the type of song that I’d expect from something like 4th Ikimasshoi, honestly – it’s endlessly positive and happy, with a great brass arrangement that makes the song work. I’ve complained a lot in the recent reviews about the arrangements sounding empty, but that’s not a problem here – the sound is lush, but it never overdoes it.
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