In TEH future, OVER 9000 years from now, historians of popular music will look at the Summer of Idols and mark Morning Musume’s debut concert IN AMERICA as the starting point. Or, for the Eurocentric, AKB48’s second-stringers performing in Le France. (By the way, whatever happened to SweetBene? I miss her megane.)
What music historians may not know, however, is what happened behind the scenes … OVER 9000 years ago.
All the major tabloids are reporting it, so it must be true
It was July 4, 2009. Independence Day seemed like a pointless formality compared to the sheer magnitude of having seen Morning Musume in concert for the first time in my life the day before. But I still had the rest of my life before me, so I hauled my ass out of my uncomfortably soft hotel bed and cracked my laptop open. My roommate woke up and did the same a few minutes later.

MY WIFE in France.
So we’re sitting there tapping away, and I, being mildly aware of other world events, decided to check out how AKB48 had fared in Le France that same weekend. Since it was so recent, I figured the best way would be to go through Google’s blog search, or something. But instead of hearing about Le France, a totally different keyword struck my eye.
“AKB48″ and “New York” in the same sentence.
It seemed too awesome to be true. I googled a few other places to figure out what the hell was going on. It was just like back in February when a certain colleague “leaked” to me that Momusu would be performing at AX, and I was like, “Are you joking with me,” and I almost thought he was trolling until a week and a half later when Anime Expo made the official announcement.
And then, I shit you not, about ten minutes after I had silently made this discovery, my roommate turned to me and said, “Hey, did you hear about this thing that AKB48 is going to perform in New York?”
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