This group is totally not Morning Musume. Instead, they all can sing and dance and are very cute.
We need more like this.


Bright - Feel'n You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbrwZ7iA-F0

I like this one too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBb_DkizL2I...feature=related
This song is 100% americanized.

Yeah, it gots a nice beat. I like the one in the red.




Another group with a totally different atittude. Great talent
Domino

Domino - Don't Stop Da Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wEqqyPNVqs

My favorite used to be Speed, where they at?

Stereo Pony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHZO0CFn8sg

reminds me of rumania montevideo. Girl with the drum.

That band went under my radar. never hard of them so I checked them out on yuotube. From the hair style and fonts used, I'm guessing mid 90s?

Jpop in the 80s was special. Older singers and styles were still around like Ishikawa Hitomi and Sawada Kenji. They were competing with the reigning singers like Matsuda Seiko and Nakamori Akina. And newer styles were coming in like Anzen Chitai, The Tube, checkers, Koizumi Kyoko. And there were groups that were popular but never appeared on TV like Southern All Stars and Niagara Triangle. Too bad I don't have any music videos of that stuff - I only got mp3s.

The 90s was the beginning of change I believe. The studios and labels started losing control and bands like The Brilliant Green, ELT, Do As Infinity and Utada Hikaru started at this time.

Now, during 00s, Jpop has really matured. A few musicians like Morining Musume are still studio controlled, but the vast majority are Independent entities under contract. Its really amazing the level of talent that appeared seemingly from nowhere. Just four years ago, I read a Japanese article predicting Jpop will crash because there was nobody talented enough to replace peope like Utada Hikaru and Hamasaki Ayumi as they retire. That article was so totally off! The new talent is way better than the older ones.

I is like Speed.

Speed - White Love

Wow. I messed out. Didn't pay any attention to Speed. MmmM!, they are all so pretty!
( But they do sing like Morning Musume )

They stopped and disbanded long time ago.....I used to like them a lot when I was young....then recently I googled their news and it says they are reuniting again....that's great.

what do you mean girl groups are back?

girl groups have been in existence forever

holy crap, the '97 style is so weird

i like the girl 2nd from the right