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Fri Sep 05, 2025 2:02 am

Question: When you like a song, do you first start liking it from the lyrics or melody?

Angerme

Ise Layla
Since I normally mostly listen to music without lyrics, it's overwhelmingly the melody!

Tamenaga Shion
It's the lyrics!!
Since I'm the type who likes to give myself over to the main character of the story of the music, I can empathize with the lyrics and so like the kind of lyrics which let you easily imagine the content!

Hashisako Rin
Melody
If I don't like the melody then the lyrics don't make an impression either.

Kawana Rin
Though I highly value lyrics, it's the melody that I become interested in first! Songs I come to like tend to have an intro that draws me in and lyrics that I also like.

Matsumoto Wakana
It's the melody! Since the melody's the first thing that enters my head, I come to like songs through the melody!

Hirayama Yuki
It's mostly the lyrics! But when it comes to sound I'm overwhelmingly drawn to jazz music!

Shimoitani Yukiho
It's the melody!
Since I can enjoy the feel of it just from the instrumental!

Goto Hana
The lyrics!!
De~finitely the lyrics!!

Nagano Momoha
Melody!♪
But recently I've been interested in a song's lyrics, or what kind of story it tells, so I often look at the lyrics!

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Fri Sep 05, 2025 4:51 am

Question: When you like a song, do you first start liking it from the lyrics or melody?

Tsubaki Factory

Tanimoto Ami
Melody

Ono Mizuho
I think it's the lyrics!
Since I empathize with them, and they often give me encouragement!

Onoda Saori
I'm the type to treasure both of them! I guess I haven't been able to be very adventurous with music.

Akiyama Mao
Probably from the melody? That's what I thought, but maybe it's really the lyrics?? lol
Both!!! lol

Kasai Yuumi
The melody draws my attention and the lyrics get me to like it.

Fukuda Marine
I feel like it's mostly the melody!

Yofuu Runo
It depends on the situation.
There are songs where the lyrics draw me in and others were the melody does.

Ishii Mihane
It's from the melody!

Murata Yuu
The lyrics!

Doi Fuuka
It's the melody!!!

Nishimura Itsuki
Melody

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Sat Sep 06, 2025 5:21 am

Question: When you like a song, do you first start liking it from the lyrics or melody?

BEYOOOOONDS

Nishida Shiori
I often like a song after reading the lyrics!

Eguchi Saya
Melody

Takase Kurumi
I feel like I often like a song from the lyrics!
I like the feeling of melodies gradually becoming addictive!

Maeda Kokoro
Waaa、、though I've had both、、
Hm~~~m、、lyrics、、? I suppose?

Okamura Minami
I often first listen to things like the melody and feel of the song!!

Hirai Miyo
I think it's probably more the melody!

Kobayashi Honoka
It's overwhelmingly the melody!!
Liking the melody gets me obsessed with it, and after listening to it for a long time I really notice good things about the lyrics.

Satoyoshi Utano
Melody! Or rather, the intro!!!
I generally like songs where I like the intro!

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Tue Sep 09, 2025 1:28 am

Question: When you like a song, do you first start liking it from the lyrics or melody?

Ocha Norma

Saito Madoka
To the extent I can say it's almost 100%, I come to like the melodies first! After listening to the melody I listen closely to the lyrics and come to like it.

Hiromoto Ruli
Melody!!!

Yonemura Kirara
More or less the lyrics!!
But I probably won't even start listening if the melody isn't good...

Kubota Nanami
Lyrics!
I tend to like songs which have lyrics that resonate in my heart!

Nakayama Natsume
It's the lyrics! Overwhelmingly the lyrics!

Nishizaki Miku
It changes depending on the song!!!

Kitahara Momo
It's the lyrics.
The one recently where I fell most for the lyrics is Rosy Chronicle's "Ubu to Zuru".

Tsutsui Roko
It's the melody!
I like it when the sounds like up in a way that makes me think "You're going there?"!

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Tue Sep 09, 2025 5:59 am

Question: When you like a song, do you first start liking it from the lyrics or melody?

Rosy Chronicle

Hashida Honoka
It's mostly the melody.
From the melody I think things like "This song is so cute" or "It somehow echoes in my heart", and after that when I look at the lyrics I come to like it even more!

Yoshida Hinoha
Melody!!
Though of course I also like lyrics, it's since I mostly first come to like a song from the feel of its rhythm.

Onoda Karin
Overwhelmingly the melody

Murakoshi Ayana
Melody
When I first hear a song it's like "I like this melody!" and after that I like read and interpret the lyrics.♡

Uemura Hasumi
It's the melody!
I always start liking something from the melody, and start singing the lyrics even though I only vaguely remember them.

Matsubara Yuliya
Melody
It's since when I listen to a song I hear the melody first.

Shimakawa Hana
Decisively the lyrics!!!!
Though of course there are also times when I fall for the melody, I'm mostly attracted to a song by the lyrics!
For music I'm listening to the first time I first look at the lyrics!

Kamimura Rena
Nn~ though it's a tough call... the melody gets me curious, and then along with the lyrics I come to like it!

Souma Yume
Melody!!
After hearing the melody first I listen to it while watching the lyrics!

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Wed Sep 10, 2025 2:13 am

Question: Please tell us about a small ambition of yours!

Juice=Juice

Dambara Ruru
I wanna bite into freshly baked bread without cutting it! lol

Inoue Rei
I wanna appear in a commercial!

Kudo Yume
Toast a full loaf of bread
Fill up on guilty pleasure food!!! I wanna eat it!!!

Matsunaga Riai
I'm going to eat an impossible amount of strawberries this winter.

Arisawa Ichika
I wanna travel the world!

Irie Risa
There's a hall in Chiba with a venue that holds a particular significance to me, so I want to do a one-man Juice=Juice live there!

Ebata Kisaki
I wanna make lots of different types of tableware!

Ishiyama Sakura
Becoming a billionaire

Endo Akari
Make a plushie that I illustrated myself.

Kawashima Mifu
Spend the whole year having fun and in a good mood whatever happens!

Hayashi Niina
Pull once from every gachapon machine.

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Wed Sep 10, 2025 6:55 am

Question: Please tell us about a small ambition of yours!

Morning Musume '25

Nonaka Miki
It's a secret.

Oda Sakura
I want to keep eating the things I like.

Makino Maria
Go for all-you-can-eat peaches!

Haga Akane
Though it's really too big for an ambition, something I hold secretly in my heart with the idea of a small ambition is to eat tempura made by Uchida Yuki-san!!!

Yokoyama Reina
I wanna eat ice cream as much as I'd like.

Okamura Homare
Since I'm catastrophically terrible at games, I wanna become better at them!

Yamazaki Mei
I wanna become rich and eat a bunch of my favorite candies.
I wanna eat things from like a big souvenir series that I don't normally buy.

Sakurai Rio
I want to reach 40,000 Instagram followers during 2025!!

Inoue Haruka
Release a photobook to commemorate my 20th birthday.
That's not really a small ambition, is it... lol.

Yumigeta Ako
I wanna buy a new washing machine.

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Fri Sep 12, 2025 3:07 am

Question: Please tell us about a small ambition of yours!

Angerme

Ise Layla
I wanna do something like an Angerme fireworks party.
I want everyone to come. Also, I want to have lots of festival stalls and do an open air Anju live as part of it.

Tamenaga Shion
To conquer aburasoba (in Tokyo).

Hashisako Rin
I wanna eat beef tongue every day.

Kawana Rin
Appearing in a textbook!

Matsumoto Wakana
To eat naporitan 3 times a month! lol

Hirayama Yuki
I wanna try sleeping for 24 hours straight (^^)

Shimoitani Yukiho
It's becoming a minimalist!
I really admire it!

Goto Hana
To eat a ton of delicious things!

Nagano Momoha
I wanna try eating a su~~~~per big shaved ice!
Though I also love the shaved ice I can eat at summer festivals and such, I wanna go to like a specialty store!? type place and try eating a super big and fluuuuffy shaved ice…！！(..¯﹃¯ ..)yuuummm
Also, I wanna try eating shaved ice with some kind of unique flavor!
One I've heard about recently that sounded interesting is "tomato-flavored shaved ice"!

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Fri Sep 12, 2025 3:53 am

^ More interesting answers than the other groups so far. Like…

iluvatarin wrote:Kawana Rin
Appearing in a textbook!

What subject, I wonder? (ribbit)

iluvatarin wrote:Matsumoto Wakana
To eat naporitan 3 times a month! lol

Napolitan spaghetti.

iluvatarin wrote:Hirayama Yuki
I wanna try sleeping for 24 hours straight (^^)

No, you really don't. Regardless of how tired you are, anything more than 10–12 hours is simply bed rot. Sometimes literally, which is when they have to break out the Triad and Lotrimin. Just ask any hospital/hospice nurse.

iluvatarin wrote:Shimoitani Yukiho
It's becoming a minimalist!
I really admire it!

Good lord, yes. A significant part of the last few years of my life has been spent dealing with accumulated stuff, and I'm still far from done.

Some advice to those of you entering your later years: get your affairs in order. Don't leave a big mess for someone else to clean up after you're gone. Even better, write a technical manual for your own life so that someone can just pick it up and follow the instructions. The process itself, of documenting everything, will be a sobering revelation.

Fri Sep 12, 2025 5:23 am

^ I wish my dad did something like that last (he's still alive, but he's not doing anything like that).

Question: Please tell us about a small ambition of yours!

Tsubaki Factory

Tanimoto Ami
Ride a plane with my pet dog in the seat beside me.

Ono Mizuho
I wanna live on the seaside.
I wanna try living a self-sufficient life.
I wanna pursue slow living.

Onoda Saori
I wanna be bitten less by mosquitoes。。they like me!

Akiyama Mao
I don't wanna do my nails by myself!

Kasai Yuumi
I wanna climb Mount Fuji!

Fukuda Marine
I wanna learn 10 English words every day!!

Yofuu Runo
I wanna sing lots of different songs.
I wanna ride on a cloud.

Ishii Mihane
I want a pet red panda.

Murata Yuu
Though I guess it's not small, I wanna go viral!

Doi Fuuka
Personally, I want to do a job involving tomatoes.
As Tsubaki Factory, I want to appear in lots of festivals.

Nishimura Itsuki
I wanna go on a trip with my dog!!

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