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yayy.. hoshi wo mezashite's out!! Go listen to it:)

http://community.livejournal.com/news_jpop/651237.html

hmmm isit just me or are the song parts spread out more evenly among the members now? Yamapi didn't seem to have much solo lines..

Anyway i like this song! Although it did kind of remind me of a national day song :)

i dont think yamapi has that many solo lines for news...since he isnt the best singers...and the lines have to be spread among each members~~!!

btw after watching shounen club....i realized pi actually cut his hair.....but he kept the same style, though the hair is shorter = =" which mean...i dont like this style at all lOL

miLk_sHake wrote:

really? his classmates dint know hes kusano??? hahahahhaha JE is pretty popular in japan right?? they must be in some twilight zone ~ lolz

oh jess, can u post the recent kusano pic here? or if not can u send it in my email??? thanks

Actually I am not surprised that they didn't know Kusano.........Koyama and Shige mentioned several times that their classmates didn't know they are JE artistes.....Even Yamapi isn't 100% well-known by all the Japanese.There are just some ppl who really don't pay any attention to the entertainment world.....

jess wrote:yayy.. hoshi wo mezashite's out!! Go listen to it:)

http://community.livejournal.com/news_jpop/651237.html

hmmm isit just me or are the song parts spread out more evenly among the members now? Yamapi didn't seem to have much solo lines..

Anyway i like this song! Although it did kind of remind me of a national day song :)

I agree. I was going to say that on LJ but didn't want to be attacked by the rabid Pi fans. I really like Massu's voice on this single.

luv4evaluv wrote:i dont think yamapi has that many solo lines for news...since he isnt the best singers...and the lines have to be spread among each members~~!!

btw after watching shounen club....i realized pi actually cut his hair.....but he kept the same style, though the hair is shorter = =" which mean...i dont like this style at all lOL

Agree. Yamapi never have too many lines in old NewS songs....usually just 2-4lines more at the most, but sometimes it's less than that. And now they only have 6 ppl, not 8, so each member get to share more parts. Just see Sayaendou, the lyrics is shared among the 6ppl pretty evenly.

i 2nd that, i agree yamapi doesnt have the 'oh so nice' voice but i admit he sings ok like kame do... teshi and ryo and well masu sometimes ~ they sing alot of lines... and way before that, uchi and kusano as well but more of uchi... but i wonder why shige isnt singing at all ~ i mean there isnt any single lines at all, most like doing back ups...

btw let me ask for those peeps who heard the new track, did shige sang a solo part there? :fingerscrossed:

oh btw thanks to yamapi ranking whos currently ranking as top1 in the popularity contest in some japanese poll ~~ kanpai!

and i just heard theyre petitioning for UCHI and totally ditch kusano... what the heck is their problem?!?! thats what pisses me off! everyone claims they want to see NewS as 8 members but they really dont care abour kusano at all ~~

and im really against w/this petition not because they dint petition for kusa... its enough to know that theyre back in JE, isnt this a good news for both of them right? i hope they wont push thru w/this ~ we all know JE isnt the right person to demand something from him :usuck:

Yamapifans wrote:

Actually I am not surprised that they didn't know Kusano.........Koyama and Shige mentioned several times that their classmates didn't know they are JE artistes.....Even Yamapi isn't 100% well-known by all the Japanese.There are just some ppl who really don't pay any attention to the entertainment world.....

oh yeah i know now.. i just asked my japanese tomodachi, JE isnt big in japan... even smap, there are only few japanese people know their existence... i wonder why... isnt that ironic? theyre very big outside japan but JE cant control its orignal scope :crazy:

jess wrote:
ohwells, at least he's leading a carefree life now!!

And ARGHH just read on baidu, there's another rumour published in a mag that yamapi and shige were spotted at some night club and they criticized shige :usuck: I just browsed through the site, haven't really looked at it yet: http://ent.tom.com/2007-02-03/000D/08336170.html

I can't wait for the new song!!

not really as carefree as before...hehehe
i wonder how they treat kusano and uchi right now... i hope its the usual...i mean for al those things happend... mums the word..?

urgh! i hate those peep wo doesnt have anything to do but criticize peeps... and why the heck they criticize shige? admitedly shiges dint have everything ~ but why shige?!?!

lizakajang wrote:

sounds like you are an excellent, fun person to be with = yet still as sweet as a peach! it's great!

(CALLING MONTA : ARE YOU A KUSANO? = psst. don't tell MONTA, but I think he'd be best suited as FULL-FLEDGED "ryo").

definitely i know why ~~ lolz :metaldevil:

miLk_sHake wrote:oh yeah i know now.. i just asked my japanese tomodachi, JE isnt big in japan... even smap, there are only few japanese people know their existence... i wonder why... isnt that ironic? theyre very big outside japan but JE cant control its orignal scope

Now you remind me of a very old variety show where Kimura randomly picked some girls on the street and ask them to write his name in Kanji. Asked 4 girls and only 1 knew how to write his name. I was so surprised ne. I mean his name appeared in the media almost everyday, thought those girls should know his name in Kanji.

heres yamapis full details of his upcoming spring drama :)

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"Yamapi and Masami in the new Monday 9pm Fuji drama called The Proposal Campaign.
The information of Yamashita Tomohisa of NEWS (21) and actress Nagasawa Masami (19) co-starring in the Monday 9pm drama tentatively called The Proposal Campaign was released on the 4th. This drama will start in April. Thought the two of them had worked together in the TBS drama called Dragon Zakura in 2005, this is the first them to co-star in a Fuji Television drama.
The Proposal Campaign is about a guy called Iwase Ken (Yamashita) find himself in an awkward position while attending the wedding ceremony of his beloved childhood girl friend Yoshida Rei (Nagasawa). Since Ken has not been able to confess his true feelings before, he receives a second chance to go back to the past with Rei to restart their relationship. It is a comedy about how Ken struggle for winning back Rei.
Yamashita portrays Ken as a person who is stubborn yet clumsy in his love life. He said “I’m very nervous to be in a love story at on a Monday 9pm drama. Since I’ve worked with Masami before and she’s was also a younger colleague from my high school, I believe we will get along well.” Nagasawa’s character Rei is sporty and with a cheerful spirit, yet with a strong fighting instinct. She said “This is my second production with Mr Yamashita. I’m glad that we are able to become a fantastic work combination.” This drama portrait 7 years of her life, in high school, university, and as an adult member of society. It will also feature her from school uniform to wedding dress. Other actors such as Fujiki Naohito will also appear in the drama."

Original article
http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/entertainment/news/20070205-OHT1T00046.htm

Credit to oTOMOdachi's LJ.

wahh new yamapi's drama...cant wait for it..though i dont really like that girl in dragon sakura [i mean she isnt cute at all in my opinion of course~~] but a clumsy love life? haha pi gonna be funny there...hope his acting get better though...i didnt think it was even a good act in byakkotai?? [or however it spelled] ^__^"

in news i think teshi has the best voice, but sometime i like massus' more [its more of a soft tone] then ryo and yamapi evenly [just cuz i love them both lOL] and the rest are fine...i cant really recall shige's voice though [he'd never had any real solo in all songs...poor smart boy ><]

have you guys heard yamapi's new song? during SC? kiss something....
is it just me or the song sounded really similar to "yubiwa"?
haha i think yamapi composed too many songs ... and not all of them have good quality like "love song" >< [my fav of the fav jap songs~~!!!]

Shige has about half a line in the new song. It's near the middle. I think Massu sings a line then he sings it next.

Yamapifans wrote:

Actually I am not surprised that they didn't know Kusano.........Koyama and Shige mentioned several times that their classmates didn't know they are JE artistes.....Even Yamapi isn't 100% well-known by all the Japanese.There are just some ppl who really don't pay any attention to the entertainment world.....

Ok, now ON THIS ONE, I gotta agree with Yamapifans. i wouldn't know the new local artistes if i ran over one in my car, in the streets, in broad daylight.

besides, i guess that the guys wouldn't look so 'artiste-like' when they go to class. i mean, they'd prob be in sweatshirts or t-shirts and look like any other college-kid in Japan. I mean, if you already look like a Japanese, in a Japanese college, with lots of trendy kids roughly the same age (well, i heard that everyone in Japan is trendy), and sit in a class of about 30 students minimum = so plus minus a few things = yup, i figure not everyone will notice you.

Besides in some unis (NOT SURE ABOUT JAPANESE UNIS) your classmates can change every now and then, depending what subjects you take, and whether you have to repeat some subjects or not. so half the time, you're trying to just find yourself a seat, get the notes down and worry whether you gonna be able to finish your assignment or not.

or else, they are so used to having you around, they don't think too much of you? (ok, who ever wants to kill me for this statement, i accept :bonk: )

dizzy_starshine wrote:Shige has about half a line in the new song. It's near the middle. I think Massu sings a line then he sings it next.

darling, what's HALF A LINE? so unfair, don't you think?

thank you jess for the link :woot: i really like that song :dancing:
btw i'm new here so plz help me,thanks :victory:

luv4evaluv wrote:...i cant really recall shige's voice though [he'd never had any real solo in all songs...poor smart boy ><]

well, i'm not very clever, but i thought his sayaendo bit was quite good. and the one in that song, Yume No Kazu Dake Ai Ga Umareru wasn't brilliant but it was passable.

the one in Happy Music was ok....Survival, well, let's leave it at that.
but if you meant a really long solo in a group song like yamapi's part or tego's part - apart from Sayaendo - .....nope, i don't really recall one.

[quote="miLk_sHake"]
and i just heard theyre petitioning for UCHI and totally ditch kusano... what the heck is their problem?!?! thats what pisses me off! everyone claims they want to see NewS as 8 members but they really dont care abour kusano at all ~~

and im really against w/this petition not because they dint petition for kusa... its enough to know that theyre back in JE, isnt this a good news for both of them right? i hope they wont push thru w/this ~ we all know JE isnt the right person to demand something from him :usuck: [quote]

well, then let's start another, BIGGER, petition for kusa : monta can lead. By the way, WHERE IS MONTA?

miLk_sHake wrote:

really? his classmates dint know hes kusano??? hahahahhaha JE is pretty popular in japan right?? they must be in some twilight zone ~ lolz

oh jess, can u post the recent kusano pic here? or if not can u send it in my email??? thanks

well, that's normal.... shige even mentioned once in his nikki last year when he went to watch a school program someone actually told him that he should join the johnnys... :sweat:
and the point that most of them still ride train to go to work or even to school, doesnt mean that they are not popular or something... just that japanese doesnt really mind them in the crowd... and are treated as normal individual.

jess wrote:
Haha alright. You can't really see his face though. The picture was taken by a group of japanese fans i think Kusa was spotted buying DVDs, a 17-inch LCD tv, a sofa set, a table set and blankets?! That picture shows him listening to his ipod in a shop..

err... that picture was from last year bah... i mean a few months after his suspension, coz i've seen similar picture before, but not from baidu...

miLk_sHake wrote:
btw, i already pre ordered NewS new single limited copy!
go pre order urs now in cdjapan... estimated realease date will be on march 21st :)


teshis smoking underage rumor ~ it was the same crappy tabloid where they made nottis 2nd drinking epsode way back

and another funny rumor this month:

yamapi is rumored to join KATTUN and
uichi is rumored to replace akanishi jin in KATTUN...
so what will that happen... KUT TUN?? lolz

not KUTTUN, shld be KUTTUNY :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
their single is now for preorder almost everywhere, amazon, hmv, cdjapan and clubjapan. although hmv posted their limited edition the first day it went online but cannot order and wont even let me order it!! ... am getting mine, from both hmv and clubjapan. have to save on some shipping cost, but cant resist the fact that they might be giving away some souvinirs for the pre-order customers like that one for txt etc.... else clubjapan is a better choice for those on budget.

luv4evaluv wrote:wahh new yamapi's drama...cant wait for it..though i in news i think teshi has the best voice, but sometime i like massus' more [its more of a soft tone] then ryo and yamapi evenly [just cuz i love them both lOL] and the rest are fine...i cant really recall shige's voice though [he'd never had any real solo in all songs...poor smart boy ><]

actually he does have a solo but its unofficial (so i guess hes not the really poor) ~ the title of the song is SURVIVAL... but opposite to that, i dint survive watching the perf... sadly the songs is really bad... his voice doesnt suit the song...

and i just found out shige plays guitar like a rock star!!! when i saw the pics ~ i was swept away by his kakkoi-ness... let me post the pics ~

the other side of shige ~~ darn that rawkstar!!

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Credits: To Shigeaki-Kato.com

lizakajang wrote:well, then let's start another, BIGGER, petition for kusa : monta can lead. By the way, WHERE IS MONTA?

chigau! come to think of it, its better if theyre not going to petition for kusa coz most likely he'll be staying for good in je right? and johnny might be piss off to those uchi fans and uchis position might be threatened~

and yeah wheres monta?? i havent seen his/her new avie ~

gelyn wrote:

not KUTTUN, shld be KUTTUNY :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
their single is now for preorder almost everywhere, amazon, hmv, cdjapan and clubjapan. although hmv posted their limited edition the first day it went online but cannot order and wont even let me order it!! ... am getting mine, from both hmv and clubjapan. have to save on some shipping cost, but cant resist the fact that they might be giving away some souvinirs for the pre-order customers like that one for txt etc.... else clubjapan is a better choice for those on budget.

this is something new ~ im gonna visit clubjapan... is it clubjapan.co.jp?
oh yeah hmv is the cheapest..
i was freakin out yesterday coz way before january i already pre ordered NewS calendar like thrice alreand and cancelled it bcoz im hook up w/kanjani8 ~ and anyway i haeard from someone last night that NewS calendar in HMV is already sold out and when i check it ~ it was really sold out together w/kattun and arashi calendars... luckily amazonjp is still open for pre order, not as cheap as hmv but not as expensive as cdjapan... not really bad... nway, i so wanna kick myself for cancelling those calendars before ~~

but nway i think some of them will re-stock, they always do ~

lizakajang wrote:
Ok, now ON THIS ONE, I gotta agree with Yamapifans. i wouldn't know the new local artistes if i ran over one in my car, in the streets, in broad daylight.

Haha, me too, especially those new local artistes....many of them even my middle-age mother knows but I don't even heard of their namescc^^;; Seems like my mom is more trendy than I amcc.^^;; But I can't help it. I am too busy focusing on JPOP and my favorite local artists, no extra time to spend on the new ppl nec..


Switch topic.....just listened to Yamapi's new song on 2/4 SC and NewS's new song for Happy Feet......Am I the only one here actually think that Yamapi's song is better than Happy Feet theme song?? Actually both song not too interested inc.gotta listen to several more times before I start liking themccand then I found that the melody of Yamapi's new song sound more appealing to mec..but of course, it's no way to compare w/ Love Song. I wish the quality of his new songs can return to that level ne........