"Miss Love Tantei" (miss love detective) came out in 2005, and is one of my favourite Hello Project songs - certainly in my top 10. W (doubleyou) were a HP duo made up of Tsuji Nozomi and Ai Kago, who debuted as "W" in 2004 after graduating from Morning Musume.
The music video is super-cute, and there's much more going on than your standard HP music video - (normally just dancing and closeups with sparkles). If you watch the full music video, note the "ganguro" look in one of the scenes...
There is a cool little rap in this song, and the singing is much more advanced in comparison to the overly-sugared voices that W often sang with (checkout Kago's jazz singing on youtube - she's got a great voice). Overall, this is a very good song, and was mainstream enough that it could have spurred W on to much bigger things. The costumes are also really cute and both girls look really polished in this video.
Although W's thrid album was never released (due to scandals, and consequently W becoming inactive); "Miss Love Tantei" stands out as a very memorable single in the history of Hello Project and after all W were a very popular and significant group at the time.
(If you want to find out more about W, research them on a Hello Project Wiki - Tsuji and Kago are now mothers and successful at many different enterprises).
Below: I have linked a "Dance Shot" version of Miss Love Tantei, but also watch the Full MV version if you can.
The music video is super-cute, and there's much more going on than your standard HP music video - (normally just dancing and closeups with sparkles). If you watch the full music video, note the "ganguro" look in one of the scenes...
There is a cool little rap in this song, and the singing is much more advanced in comparison to the overly-sugared voices that W often sang with (checkout Kago's jazz singing on youtube - she's got a great voice). Overall, this is a very good song, and was mainstream enough that it could have spurred W on to much bigger things. The costumes are also really cute and both girls look really polished in this video.
Although W's thrid album was never released (due to scandals, and consequently W becoming inactive); "Miss Love Tantei" stands out as a very memorable single in the history of Hello Project and after all W were a very popular and significant group at the time.
(If you want to find out more about W, research them on a Hello Project Wiki - Tsuji and Kago are now mothers and successful at many different enterprises).
Below: I have linked a "Dance Shot" version of Miss Love Tantei, but also watch the Full MV version if you can.