NEWS

monta wrote:

What!!!!! of course i've tried youtube!!! but i don't like all the searching and buffering stuff!!! You can't imagine how slow the internet connection is here, so snailish...

And yes, i'm gonna shoot you, i'm taking the next MA to KL or wherever you live sneak the gun by paying the staff -_-"

actually, i'd look forward to meeting you personally, you seem like a pretty smart guy. instead of having a hired killer shoot me, why don't you come over for coffee, and i can listen to you talk bout your views about NEWS. :nut:

ok...i know you are gonna come up with a BRILLIANT answer to this....so i'll be prepared with my shield. :beatyou: 'sides, RYO's a meanie but a lot of people accept him. :shakehead:

Mariko ~ Welcome..Do you happen to be a member of IT too?

GodsGirl7 wrote:Hm. I wouldn't say that Tesshi necessarily has the best voice in all of JE. I mean, have you heard Ohno (from Arashi) song? Wow. He's amazing. And Jin, of course. These three are the top, I think. I don't know which one I think is the best out of them though. One from each of my favorite groups. :D

I love NEWS as a group. They are just too much fun. They always make me smile. There's something about each of the members that I love. Although I still know very little about Uchi and Shige. Trying to fix that. They just don't seem as "out there" as the other members for some reason. :sweat:

Ahahahaha the News wo Abake was amazing. Koyama cracked me up. XD "Dare? Dare?" :rofl: Oh Koyama, and here we thought you were the mature one. :P

Well, to me Tegoshi definitely has the best voice in NEWS. But overall in JE, Tegoshi is still far behind. I'm not just talking about the voices that sound good on CD, but also amazing when singing LIVE, and in this generation, my top 3 would have to be KK's Tsuyoshi Dohmoto, K8's Subaru and Arashi's Ohno. Jin is good, but singing live, he's still not good enough.

NEWS' members still have a lot to learn when performing live IMO. It just hurts when most of the times, their voices are just not up to par or pitchy or can't hit the high notes. That's why I prefer listening to them on CDs rather watching them perform live. To this day, Ryo & Uchi are the best live performers in NEWS, probably because they also belong to K8 who are known to be very very good live performers. Experience do count, you know...

Tegoshi definitely has the best voice in NEWS and he is one of the top in JE, considering his age and his experience (or lack of :sweat:). I love Ohno and Subaru's voices, and they are really good both recorded and live, and I actually think Nino's voice is great too, although a bit different.

NEWS aren't the best of live performers amongst JE artistes, I agree. They tend to sometimes go a bit off, but I love them for that. Call me weird, but I'm happy when I hear their voices go a bit off, because it shows that they really are performing live, like what concerts are supposed to be. Of course, it would be better if they could perform live and NOT go off, but, time and experience will fix that. At the moment, they can't control their voices very well. and Tegoshi especially, doesn't seem to know his limits. But when they do hit the right notes, by god, it's beautiful.

GodsGirl7, watch old episodes of Ya-Ya-yah, and you'll definitely fall in love with Shige there, and you could never not give your heart to Uchi if you watch him in old K8 shows :hehe:

[MariKo], welcome!!! hope you have loads of fun, fun, fun here :woot:

oh yeah, and Happy Birthday to dymmamie. You know, I just had to laugh when I read you mentioning your birthday. It's not everyday that someone advertises their birthday :hehe: LOL, j/k. I do that all the time with my friends

hantuwriter wrote:
NEWS aren't the best of live performers amongst JE artistes, I agree. They tend to sometimes go a bit off, but I love them for that. Call me weird, but I'm happy when I hear their voices go a bit off, because it shows that they really are performing live, like what concerts are supposed to be. Of course, it would be better if they could perform live and NOT go off, but, time and experience will fix that. At the moment, they can't control their voices very well. and Tegoshi especially, doesn't seem to know his limits. But when they do hit the right notes, by god, it's beautiful.

GodsGirl7, watch old episodes of Ya-Ya-yah, and you'll definitely fall in love with Shige there, and you could never not give your heart to Uchi if you watch him in old K8 shows :hehe:

Well, i haven't seen a lot... Now i'm really going to try and get the concerts and Ya-ya-yah. Which takes ages to download. hahaha... does Ya-ya-yah have subs? Or do you happen to know an upload that has subs?

Talk about the other groups, i always find the KAT-TUN guy frieky... The one in Gokusen2 and NwP... hahaha (this is very subjective, be as angry with me as you want)... Looks a lot like Koyama... frieky... in a good way though ^^

lizakajang wrote:


actually, i'd look forward to meeting you personally, you seem like a pretty smart guy. instead of having a hired killer shoot me, why don't you come over for coffee, and i can listen to you talk bout your views about NEWS. :nut:

ok...i know you are gonna come up with a BRILLIANT answer to this....so i'll be prepared with my shield. :beatyou: 'sides, RYO's a meanie but a lot of people accept him. :shakehead:

I would love to go to malaysia, but its just not free isn't it? hhahaha....
Especially KL... wanted to go there for ages... And i would love to meet someone in person to talk about NEWS...

I remeber my friend telling me about the taxi driver he met in KL which he barely knows, then the taxi driver suddenly starts to talk about Siti Nurhaliza's marriage with the datuk (so off topic) and how Siti already knows that the datuk already has a wife and the money stuff bla bla...
The taxi driver was like a gossip TV show announcer or something... hwakakka... It was so frieky yet so hillarious...

Hmmm... just finished watching MBMH and One Piece movie 7 (watched it coz i like 1piece and NewS, but i heard the sayaendo mp3 first)

Do you guys remeber the link that ladylola gave for us who are searching for PVs, well i'll tell you something, whoever povided the upload took a screenshot of the Sayaendo PV adn that screenshot was one hell of a spoiler! Well i actually think the PV itself was a spoiler. For those who intends to watch the 1piece movie, don't watch the Sayaendo PV first, just listen to the mp3, then after you watched the movie, enjoy the PV as much as you like ^^... But maybe other people won't consider it as a spoiler, i just don't like knowing things before i reach the part where i'm supossed to know it...

Why did i make such a big fuss? Coz i thought the movie was wasn't good and having it spoiled just leaves you nothing, right? It was lack of action, and i am so annoyed by Robin n Nami's breast that seems to become bigger and bigger (the art in the manga is much better and more "proportional")... If it wasn't because of NEWS's Sayaendo and the ending of the movie (the ending was pretty unpredictable and fun) i would have been so regretful watching this movie

MBMH? Just wanna say again that Tego looks kind and cute... hahaha

LOL, monta, airasia always has cheap flights from Indonesia to KL if you want :hehe:
you say that Kamenashi Kazuya is freaky? You mean his looks or just overall freaky? I can't say much cause I don't like Kame myself (my sister says he looks weird), but you say he looks a lot like Koyama? Where?! How?! No he doesn't!!!! :beaten:

xD Well...I think Tego's got the best voice in NewS, never said anything about in all of J.E. My tops in JE are Koichi (Kinki Kids), Tego (NewS, A-dur~!) and Tsubasa (Tackey & Tsubasa) Iono I like their voices best. xD

I lOVE Tego's voice because...he sounds like he does on the CD when he sings live, there isn't much difference most of the time. Where as Pi's voice gets by far more nasal in my opinion, and Kussa's kinda cracks like mine. Tego can hold his notes when he sings Live, and I like that about him. His voice pretty much sounds the same on the CD as it does live, and for me that's awesome.

Ah, how could I forgot about my Tsuyoshi-kun! Yes, another great voice :applaud:

I think everyone knows that JE isn't about idols who can sing...it's about idols who can grab girls attention and make the old man some money. In an American article I read (so this is an outside viewpoint), they talked about SMAP, how no one in the group could really sing, but it was all about sex appeal (mainly pointing at Kimura in the article)

If an idol can sing too, well then that's just a added bonus :P
Also, even if you ARE in a boyband, what makes JE stand out for me is how they train all the boys to do so much more then just sing, they have lessons in dancing (backflips, cause you ain't Johnny's if you can't do a backflip :hehe: ), acting in dramas and stageplays, even how be a good MC. They just need experience to tone all these skills they've learned.

OT: Eh, I think Jin is one of the best at singing live, geez his vocal range is like :shocked: and he KNOWS how to control it.

ahaha.. reminds me of how one of the reasons Yamapi wanted to be a Johnny was because he wanted to learn how to do backflips :rofl:

Mina thanks for the birthday wish.. hantuwriter: yes I always do that since when the day was the first of a month people will think of oh its a new month.. and forgot mine..so I have to wake them up hahaha..

lizakajang: please don't get offended.. I'm sorry. I saw that you always 'qoute long writing' since I don't how to qoute hihihi. its ok if you write long I will still read it.. well at least it will keep this thread lively right..

monta: I watch the clip at yubetube which it takes ages for me to watch full clip that just 4 or 5 min. but I get one fan made video song dream which has the clip kusano chase other NewS member.. gomen ne I don't remember who upload it here..

I agree to say that tego was the best voice.. and its not too hard to reconize his voice since we can hear his breath each time he end his line :hehe:
but any one listen to massu? I don't know but I think he have a great voice too in NewS. at first its hard to recognize their voice.
for me NewS was not the best group of live performance - yes. but I think they will do better on january right! if not we still happy since we have our NewS back!!

hantuwriter wrote:LOL, monta, airasia always has cheap flights from Indonesia to KL if you want :hehe:
you say that Kamenashi Kazuya is freaky? You mean his looks or just overall freaky? I can't say much cause I don't like Kame myself (my sister says he looks weird), but you say he looks a lot like Koyama? Where?! How?! No he doesn't!!!! :beaten:

Agree, hantuwriter!

:beatyou: koyama = kame? nope don't think so. koyama is a whole lot different. maybe he reminds you of kame, in a way, because of the longish hair, and maybe a longish face. but i always thot that kame was more girly than anyone else, except maybe Jin and Uchi.

By the way, sometimes UCHI looks rather girly, but sometimes, when he's singing onstage, looks quite ....well, dunno .... a little less girly?

Oh yeah, if Mr. Monta does come to KL, he'd find YOUTUBE going much faster :hehe:

Hey everyone, have you guys watched any of the recent CMs/ picture spreads that Yamapi has been in recently? So.....first I'd like to qualify that I was like a pretty BIG fangirl of Yamapi. For like almost a year. Ever since Nobuta and thru Kurosagi and even in Fever to Future. But recently, I just noticed some of his photo shoots are getting uglier and uglier. And it's not so much that my tastes has changed (though I did realize his eyes are a little too big for his face). Cuz I still find Akira adorable. But omg, the recent commercial of him......seriously gave me a fright. In fact, my friend screamed everytime she saw him in it. And all his ads for his new drama was pretty hideous too. Though that may be due to his new hair that's NOT covering his forehead/face. He looks almost as bad as the super old Johnny's who you ocassionally see at like the Johnny countdown or something. Anyways, my point is......how did he age so fast? And get so ugly so fast? Here's some proof:

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Another recent finding is that well.....he kind of can't sing. I mean I kinda knew he wasn't the BEST singer in NEWS but he got all the solos especially in the earlier NEWS releases since he was the most popular. And I liked Seishun and Daite a lot too. I also like Yubiwa, Love Song, Himawari etc. HOWEVER, I dunno if it's cuz I started listening to artists that can sing or whatever but SUDDENLY, I can't stand his singing voice anymore. In all the Shounen Clubs, when they sing in a group......his voice ALWAYS stands out, even above everyone else in NEWS. It's actually quite a funny phenomenon since Kame's voice overpowers everyone else's too. But pretty much when Pi sings in a group of 8 all I can hear is still his voice. And he kinda sing out of tune live. And the quality of his voice is even worse. Although in the recordings, tho the voice engineers try, they can't really change the entire quality of his voice. For example, the beginning of the song Himawari: the background music is all fine and dandy and suddenly AAAAAAOOOOOO..

Anyways.....hope this post doesn't offend ppl. And I don't really mean to bash Pi or anything cuz he works so hard at what he does. Its just that this has been kind of bothering me for a while and I wonder if anyone else has thought the same things?

mmmm personally i am not a fan of pi's voice.. i liked it in seishun and daite, but then i sometimes cant really stand it :( because it does stand out above the other members' voices... it HAS gotten better thru the years i must say!! but i was so upset cuz i was really obsessed w/"hakka candy" for awhile, and i found this version sung by kattun and 4tops, but then yamapi got all the solo parts, and i just wanted to hear more jin!! gosh and this was months ago, before i was even a huge fan of jin's. ahhhhh. it does stand out alot tho, AND he gets like sooo many solos because he was the most famous of news. except when its pi vs kame, then it depends ^_^ on whos voice stands out hahahahahahahaha. and OMG in himawari... i never noticed the beginning before but then one day when it just started playing i was like WHOA cuz i hadnt heard the song in awhile and wow yeah. i dont get it. anyway yea i was a HUGE pi fangirl too... and i still love his akira days dearly... i just cant watch his new drama news reports cuz i kinda cant stand his hair either. :( or that new CM... first of all WHAT was with all those girls undressing?! it was really disturbing, i thought i dled the wrong thing @ first but then i heard pi's voice in the background. and that lighting and hair just isnt the best look for him O_O

oy vey. i dunno.

on another note...
teshi singing in MS alone was love. i love his voice!!!!
cant wait to hear more about teshi and massu's little duo thing...
wish they'd come to the US.
actually no that'd be even more surreal... too many surreal things going on right now, that would not be good for my health. HAHA.

news will be coming back soon tho, no?? i think uchi will be back soon ^_^

cutesawada wrote:Hey everyone, have you guys watched any of the recent CMs/ picture spreads that Yamapi has been in recently? So.....first I'd like to qualify that I was like a pretty BIG fangirl of Yamapi. For like almost a year. Ever since Nobuta and thru Kurosagi and even in Fever to Future. But recently, I just noticed some of his photo shoots are getting uglier and uglier. And it's not so much that my tastes has changed (though I did realize his eyes are a little too big for his face). Cuz I still find Akira adorable. But omg, the recent commercial of him......seriously gave me a fright. In fact, my friend screamed everytime she saw him in it. And all his ads for his new drama was pretty hideous too. Though that may be due to his new hair that's NOT covering his forehead/face. He looks almost as bad as the super old Johnny's who you ocassionally see at like the Johnny countdown or something. Anyways, my point is......how did he age so fast? And get so ugly so fast? Here's some proof:

[image]

Another recent finding is that well.....he kind of can't sing. I mean I kinda knew he wasn't the BEST singer in NEWS but he got all the solos especially in the earlier NEWS releases since he was the most popular. And I liked Seishun and Daite a lot too. I also like Yubiwa, Love Song, Himawari etc. HOWEVER, I dunno if it's cuz I started listening to artists that can sing or whatever but SUDDENLY, I can't stand his singing voice anymore. In all the Shounen Clubs, when they sing in a group......his voice ALWAYS stands out, even above everyone else in NEWS. It's actually quite a funny phenomenon since Kame's voice overpowers everyone else's too. But pretty much when Pi sings in a group of 8 all I can hear is still his voice. And he kinda sing out of tune live. And the quality of his voice is even worse. Although in the recordings, tho the voice engineers try, they can't really change the entire quality of his voice. For example, the beginning of the song Himawari: the background music is all fine and dandy and suddenly AAAAAAOOOOOO..

Anyways.....hope this post doesn't offend ppl. And I don't really mean to bash Pi or anything cuz he works so hard at what he does. Its just that this has been kind of bothering me for a while and I wonder if anyone else has thought the same things?

I appreciate your point of view. many fans are used to his 'old look'.

i guess he's just moving on, trying to create a new image of himself ; so he experiments. Some people may like him this way : he looks older, maybe a bit more mature.

dunno. that's just my point of view, and i guess because i believe that I am older than most of the people on this thread, i like his new look compared to the time that he was skinnier and paler. I am so sorry if i offend anyone. :crazy:

someone said he looks 'buffier' : i guess that's better too. :mrgreen:

thanks for sharing, though. :mrgreen:

hmmmmm......I mean I do prefer the buffer Pi......cuz I don't like the whole anorexic look on ANYONE. But it could be the sun too. That he's getting darker so he looks different. Didn't he write that he wanted to be bald or something? On one hand I'm kind of curious how that would look. On the other hand.... But anyways change may be good or bad. I'm glad he's experimenting tho and finding what he likes best. Even if it may or may not appeal to me at the moment

cutesawada wrote:hmmmmm......I mean I do prefer the buffer Pi......cuz I don't like the whole anorexic look on ANYONE. But it could be the sun too. That he's getting darker so he looks different. Didn't he write that he wanted to be bald or something? On one hand I'm kind of curious how that would look. On the other hand.... But anyways change may be good or bad. I'm glad he's experimenting tho and finding what he likes best. Even if it may or may not appeal to me at the moment

Hey....that's pretty cool. "..what he likes best".

sometimes i pity these guys. i mean a lot of people like them because of how they look, their smiles, etc. I was just thinking the other day(s),

a) are they happy? seriously. I suppose they are, coz they seem to be putting up happy faces onstage, etc.

but you know, it must be tough for them to be what the public wants them to be all the time.

b ) i was wondering, do they have girlfriends? i know Ryo is supposedly going out with someone.

c) whatever it is, i like them as a team, a group, and I do like that Yamapi is pretty cool to share the limelight with the rest although lots of people love him more than others, or so i've been told.

d) interestingly, though, i read that Koyama is the one that's looking out for the younger ones, like an older brother. Funny, i always thought that Yamapi would be the natural 'caretaker' in this sense.

Yup, shows that you certainly can't judge anyone from outside only. I'm just glad that Yamapi's still using his talents for the benefits of all.

and i hope that all NEWS members, including UCHI, will always be happy.
really. :fingerscrossed:

sorry haven't been joining in for some time because this thread is growing so fast that i'm becoming a little confused :crazy:

@cutesawada i agree with lizakajang that he is probably experimenting new images to see which he likes best/audiences like best. Although i really do love his pretty, cute boy image in the past much much more, i guess he is trying out a more mature and buffier one as he grows older. i mean one can't remain cute forever right? So yeah.. he's going for the more "manly", matured image now.

sidenote, but is ryo looking younger and younger?! with his new hairstyle especially :)

as for yamapi's voice, can easily tell that he's the type of trained singer so it's quite an effort for him to sing actually. (Hence he lip-syncs quite often) Especially with all the dance they have to do in concerts too. So yeah.. i guess maybe that's why he goes out of tune quite often.

If you're looking for voice quality, i think it will be best to get that from pre-recorded stuff instead of live :sweat: Hey! You really need good stamina to dance and sing at the same time. Phew. And it isn't just yamapi, all of them more or less get out of tune :) And yes i agree with hantuwriter, tegoshi's voice sounds the most beautiful live but it tends to get screechy in his unsuccessful attempts to reach high notes. Still, he's quite daring when it comes to high notes in concerts :hehe:

@lizakajang Pretty good questions you were thinking :) Yeah.. all of them put up happy faces at least on stage (except ryo maybe). And from what i noticed, they do stuff like hugging/intimate actions to appeal to fangirls. Sometimes i also think that they are quite poor thing, to do some stuff which may be against their own will just for fanservice :( And talking about fans ARGHH some fans are so unappreciative :( I heard from another forum that a crazy fan actually scratched ryo's face so badly during a recent k8 concert that he had to go offstage halfway :banghead:

yep, i have read in interviews that kei is the "big-brother" figure and in fact yamapi said in an interview that he's more of the "bystander".



p.s i updated the thread on page 791 for those of you interested in NEWS sc performance :)

monta wrote:
doramas i remember having NEWS members:
Dragon Zakura
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Nobuta wo Produce
Kurosagi
Ns'Aoi
My Boss My Hero
Attention Please
Ichi Ritoru no Namida

there are so many dramas with newS members, not only those!
well you actually put almost all P`s doramas
Tesshi
15 sai no blues
gachibaka
gekidan engimono
movie Shissou
Massu
Gachibaka
dance drill
gekidan engimono
Ryo
1chi rittotu
gambatte ikimasshoi
attention please
Uchi
boku no ikiru no michi
gambatte ikimasshoi
team 4
doremisora
Shige
gekidan engimono x 2
busu no koi
kakurekarakuri
kinpachi sensei
K-chan
n`s aoi
kurosagi
hanayome wa yakudoshi
Kusano
gekidan engimono
YamaP
kurosagi
nwp
dragonzakura
lunch queen
iwgp
shonen wa tori ni natta
stand up!
boys be
arashi no koi
and some other small roles
so as you see, there is much more! and maby i forget about some dorama, if you find smth then wrote it too :woot: