Kamo, Kamo, Kamo! or... why I think Momosu has a fantastic '09 in store!

Seriously, as amazing as the girls looked in Pepper Keibu, I just wasn't feeling it. As someone that's just recently become versed Momosu's history, I could kind of understand the general 'blahhhhhh' feeling floating around the blogospheres with regards to H!P's biggest act. Enough of that though, heres my mini-breakdown:

Great: Ai-chans performance was UNBELIEVABLE. I recently saw a post off of INTLWOTA where CHANCECHANCEBOOGIEwas giving their take on who in the current MM is ready for a solo career. He made some good points for and against Takitty, but having recently watched her performance on the dorama Q.E.D., I'm in awe at how amazing she is.

Good: Where to start with the good...I thought the PV was a step up over Resonant Blue, I thought there were tons of great close-ups of the girls(in the rain no less), and the outfits were fantastic(as opposed to Resonant Blue where Tsunku decided to hide Gaki's gorgeous legs...). Reina gave a pretty awesome performance(as support for Ai-chan), Gaki was gorgeous as usual, and everyones new favourite hotty JunX2(lol) gave us some great eye-candy.

Bad: While the song and video were absolutely fantastic, not everyone survived unscathed...firstly, although I love the fact that Ai-chan got tons of lines, the split was pretty slanted, I would've liked to see Kamei + Gaki get some more. On the subject of lines...Oh Sayu...you always complain you don't get enough lines, but honestly...anytime Sayu has to sing a line solo I just cringe inside. I used to think Koha had some of the weakest solos(and she has her moments) but this single cemented Sayu as worst vocalist on Momosu...ho hum, at least shes cute.

Weird: I don't know what happend, but the girls all look like they can actually act now...their faces during the rain scenes had some real emotion, as opposed to the 'this is my angry face' we've seen so often before. Maybe Ai-chan brought back some tips from her Q.E.D. experience...And finally, with regards to the girls hair styles: Ai-chan's hair has been all over the place in the last 6 months, short and stylish through the Resonant Blue / C/C.Complex, long during the Q.E.D press conferences and somewhere in between here. Last but not least, I thought it was funny to see Reina in both haircuts(side-tail and bunny-cut) within a few seconds during the video(~2:10 in the video).

Overall: Great start for Momosu in 2009, they've continued to evolve their style into an older/more mature sound, heres hoping we see a nice hit on Oricon :P