What's Going On Here?

There’re a couple things about some of the idol music videos that I’ve shared on my blog that I need to talk about.  Maybe these aren’t real big problems or something like that, but they are rather annoying.  

On June 12 of this year, I wrote an article titled “Recent Favorites”.  I shared a music video titled “my best wishes” by Nono Aimi.  It seems that this video has been shared on two YouTube channels, including Aimi’s.  The other channel that uploaded it was actually the first one to do so, Bash Official Channel.  Bash has a total of seven idol music videos on it.  Bash uploaded the video on October 10, 2023, and Aimi shared it on her channel on June 10, 2024.  A music video being uploaded to two channels, the channel of music company that owns the song and the idol’s channel, is not unusual.  But uploading it to two channels seven months apart is.  I had no idea that Aimi’s new song was actually a 2023 release when I shared it because I don’t subscribe to Bash Official.  I wanted to include it of my list of favorite songs for 2024 when I write this year’s Year in Review, but now I guess I can’t.  Here’s the Bash upload for “my best wishes”.  

The group ULTRA-C has had an interesting year.  On May 5 a live version of a new song titled “Shoot it up!” debuted on YouTube.  It was mentioned in the description that it was to be their first single, to be released at an unspecified date.  A few months later “Seishun Shitai” was announced as the group’s first single.  A music video spot (a short preview of the video) was uploaded to YouTube on September 21.  On October 8 the full music video was shared.  Then, on October 13, it was made private, along with the live version of “Shoot it up!”.  Why?  Originally, I thought that it was because of an error in the video.  There’s some wind noise during a beach scene for about one second that isn’t part of the studio recording.  I figured they would remove the noise and then reupload the video.  I was wrong.  Surprisingly, the music video spot is still on YouTube.     

The real reason, I suspect, is because ULTRA-C has now added two new members.  The decision to add them was probably around the same time that the editing of the music video occurred.  The two new girls are Onda Mahina (who no longer uses her family name), former member of ww, and Marika.  The girls performed with the group a few times when some of the original members were unable to because of poor health, but they had an “official” debut, when all the members could perform, on October 22.  Since Mahina and Marika were not in the “Seishun Shitai” video, I guess it was decided to make it private after a mere five days!  Why the video for “Shoot it up!” also had to be made private, I don’t know, unless it was for the same reason. 

ULTRA-C (October 2024)

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