Body Cooler | White Biz CM

The members look damn cool in this CM! My favourite is Shuta. It’s really fresh and really lets us feel summer. Looks like we can look forward to another hot summer

The song. I love it. Like the CM, it’s pretty fresh. The female members are singing mainly. I hoped the male members can get their parts as well. By listening to this song, I think we can pretty much believe it’s another Komuro song. I want to hear the full song

So today, I’ve received several unhappy and disturbing news. There were rumours spreading that AAA was kind of splitting up. I didn’t believe in these rumours at first, however, these facts back up a lot of these rumours.

First of all, Urata Naoya. He’s been getting angry at random fans on Twitter since the beginning of this year. We thought that something may be going on between the members, that is making them stressed. Then we see Shuta alone, with Nissy, Uno and Hidaka working together, when it used to be Nissy, Hidaka and Shuta hanging together.

Then Urata has decided to take Atae and Uno off his follow list on Twitter.
This stirred a lot of 2chan and Twitter users. I don’t know why such a thing can happen to such a happy group. I just hope these rumours aren’t true and that their tour can end successfully. If you know any other information that might explain the reason behind these actions, please comment

And yesterday on Uno-chan’s blog post, she mentioned that she was filming the PV  of No cry No more “under the bright sky.” This probably means that the next PV will be filmed outdoors. I am kind of expecting another MUSIC!!! or Get Chu!! sort of song. I hope this is true!

This is the act list for the tour (or at least, for Hokkaido):

PARADISE
Dream After Dream
Heart and Soul
Introduction
Get Chu!
Trampoline Act (Digest)
Sayonara no Yukue
Endless Fighters
Love@1st Sight
one more tomorrow
Believe own way
Aitai Riyuu
Special Corner [Onegai BUZZ King]
Itoshisa to Setsunasa to Kokorozuyosa to (a capella ver. with Hidaka’s piano)
Talk
Winter Lander
WOW War Tonight
Crazy Gonna Crazy
Talk
Break Down
Makenai Kokoro
Daiji na Koto
<Encore>
Day by Day
MUSIC!!!
Talk
Hurricane Riri Boston Mari
STEP

A lot of cover songs stood out, including the revival of Crazy Gonna Crazy. One of the songs will probably be replaced with “No cry No more” when it is released.

Anyway, I really regret not being able to join the tour, which I’m sure I would’ve enjoyed. I would have loved to see the smiles of the members, however due to my schedule I couldn’t find a good time to go.

At the end of the live, it seems that AAA announced that their Anniversary Live will take place in Zepp, which is a concert hall group. There is a total of 6 halls around the country, and they will tour all of them. It’s great news for people who don’t live in the big cities, but it holds way less space than it will hold with Yokohama and Kobe combined (which was last year’s). We don’t know whether they will still do the Yokohama Arena lives, but I really hope they will. Also, it seems that Zepp generates their electricity with wind power, which is kinda cool

Source: 2chan

So AAA’s official site has been deciding for a May 11 release for AAA’s 28th single. However, they decided to change the release date to June 22nd. The single will be called “No cry No more“. It will be the CM song to Ito-Yokado’s “Body Heater” and “White Biz.”

It is interesting to see that the song is not the CM song to Charge & Go. I believe that they have decided to delay the release of “Charge & Go” to a further date due to the earthquake, and instead release the 29th single as the 28th. I’m not sure though.

The contents of the 28th single:

[CD+DVD] (Jacket A)
＜CD Contents＞
1.No cry No more
2.Untitled Song 1
3.No cry No more（Instrumental）
4.Untitled Song 1（Instrumental）

＜DVD Contents＞Approx. 10 minutes
1. No cry No more（Music Clip）
2. No cry No more（Music Clip Making）

[CD+DVD] (Jacket B)
<CD Contents＞
1.No cry No more
2.Untitled Song 1
3.No cry No more（Instrumental）
4.Untitled Song 1（Instrumental）

<DVD Contents＞ Approx. 10 minutes
1. Footage

[CD] (Jacket C)
<CD Contents>
1.No cry No more
2.Untitled Song 1
3.Untitled Song 2
4.No cry No more（Instrumental）
5. Untitled Song 1（Instrumental）

There will be 8 types of trading cards.

On Twitter, Komuro was asked whether this single will be composed by him. He replied “maybe,” so the chances are pretty high that Komuro will be composing the next single.

Atae mentioned on the blog that he did so for the better. But in an interview previously done with him, he said that he didn’t really like his last name. Maybe that’s why he omitted his last name, I don’t know.

I feel a bit sad that he decided to change his name, but it’s really up to him. Let’s hope he succeeds in his solo projects!

Official website here

In order to load the site (which only has this picture, so there’s no point in viewing it just yet though), I had to refresh the site a few times, or else I’d get an error message.

Since this has been stated on an actor’s official blog, we can safely say that this is official news, and NOT a rumour. Also, a second movie with Atae IS also rumoured.

Source: Soma Keisuke Official Blog

I’m not really a fan of children singing, but I was really pleased with the song. It’s a really touching song. Dream5 is really awesome, and with Dacchan composing the rap as well, made it even better. But the child who sung with Dacchan has a long way to go before becoming a rapper

You can listen to the song here

AAA will be participating in Girls Award, which is a charity event that will be held on April 29th in order to support the victims of the earthquake through sharing fashion and music. They will probably be singing.

ParAAAdise will not be able to participate in his event as it is held far from where we live, but we hope someone would be able to go, or maybe air it on TV.

ATTACK ALL AROUND was released after three albums, ATTACK, ALL and AROUND. So it would make sense that the next best album would be released after three albums, depArture, HEARTFUL and Buzz Communication.

However, we have had only 15 or so songs since the last best album so I am not sure whether we can expect this to happen at such an early stage. I think that the best album may be released after the three consecutive release project that has also been surfacing. Also, it’s kinda fishy because they’d reveal such a big release at a much earlier stage, lime 2 months beforehand.

What do you think? My wallet will certainly be empty if this rumor ends up to be true, so I hope they’ll wait a bit longer. Do you want this to happen?

Now that we know that the next song is going to feature a pretty hip-hop style song, I think that the possibilities are high that the next song’s A-side will be Charge and Go. We’ll have to wait and see though.

Okay, so all Ontama videos have been uploaded! In case you forgot, AAA entered an amazing live hosted by a mobile phone company in Japan, au, at the start of 2011. We have Break Down, PARADISE, Daiji na Koto, Aitai Riyuu, Believe Own Way (that’s my favourite song of all time, btw), Heart and Soul and MUSIC.

Sources: 2chan | galantdo030

If you are on our front page and want to view all the videos, click “more”.

So aaach, the official YouTube channel for AAA, is going to be starting regular shows! Their first was a 5th Anniversary digest, which are the videos above. They are going to be talking a lot, so I’m really excited! It seems that they have plans for their second episode, which is going to be a project to make a music video to their song “Thank you.” For that, they are asking for pictures of people that are smiling. They will after that, create a slide show-like music video.

Want to join the music video? Send your photo to aaa_smile@avex.jp

Oh yeah. Hope you liked our April Fools day joke.

By the way, the first thing that came into my mind was “Tron”, and I have no idea why. Maybe it’s just me. If you wanna compare, here you go:

Sources: TakaUno | dickyjp

1. Wada Satoko (121887)
2. Nokubo Naoki (111769)
3. Kakuta Ryuhei (34316)
4. Oshiba Kohei (32994)
5. Awashima Zuimaro (32947)
6. Hamasaki Ayumi (29692)
7. Hidaka Mitsuhiro (29608)
8. Ariyoshi Hiroiki (29596)
9. Uno Misako (29557)
10. Atae Shinjiro (29470)
11. Sueyoshi Shuta (29430)
12. Urata Naoya (29423)
13. Ito Chiaki (28912)

Yes, all the members (apart from Nissy, who doesn’t do twitter) is in this ranking! Awesome! I was kind of surprised that they beat Kim Jae Joong (TVXQ). Way to go!

If you aren’t following them yet, you should! Check them out.

So the lyrics of accel. contain English lyrics from the songs in Buzz Communication. So here are the lyrics.

Uno: I don’t know why (Daiji na Koto)
Nishijima: Will be over you woo (Dream After Dream)
Urata: Will be born again (Day by day)
Atae: Life is yourself (Digest)
Sueyoshi: Are you okay? (Love@1st Sight)
Ito: Yes! Right now (STEP)
Hidaka: I’m not afraid (Makenai Kokoro)

Get it? The lyrics that they repeat in accel. are all that. Very interesting discovery IMO. If you liked it, please spread the word

Oh yeah, also check out our Discography section. We’ve finally updated it!

This time, they cancelled their appearance in HKAMF (Hong Kong Asian-Pop Music Festival) that we talked about previously. I think this was a wise decision, especially as AAA will be around to cheer the people in Japan that were affected by the earthquake, and people like them are needed in Japan. They are the people who can share smiles in Japan, and they have stated on Twitter and on their mobile blog that they will

Those of you who have been planning to visit this spectacular event, please do not feel sad There will surely be another time you will get to meet AAA, and their safety will have to come first in such a case.

Sources: HKAMF Official Site | AAA Official Site

So the CM for Weider in Jelly has been released! It uses AAA’s newest song “Charge ▶ Go!”, which will probably be the A-side to their 28th single. There’s a 15 second and a 30 second version to it.

Wieder CM Page

I don’t really get what this CM’s all about. This conference room suddenly turns into a baseball field. I don’t know whether this is supposed to be funny, and I loled a little bit with the boss guy throwing the ball. A lot of money has gone into this CM, I can see.

I hope you guys weren’t distracted by the CM, and forgetting to listen to the music itself. The fast-paced song rhythm really reminds me of their older songs like “Let it Beat”, but with the beats more like their recent songs. I am liking this song a lot right now. The beginning beats are plain awesome (hope that was part of the song), and the chorus, with the male vocals being the main part, was epic. The female vocals were really supportive, and felt a lot of growth with Ito’s voice.

A lot of rumours have been surfacing, claiming that this song was composed by Komuro, but I didn’t think so when listening to it. I think he’s the same guy as “Hide-away.” Anyway, it’s really cool, and it might be one of my favourite songs. We’d need the PV, and a longer version of the song to judge it though

Lyrics:
“Doko made mo tsuzuku hibi wo toki ni warai toki ni naki na”
“Endless days, you can laugh sometimes, and cry sometimes”

That’s all I heard in the CM.

EDIT: Oh yes, the rumours about the 3 months consecutive release seems to be true. It was put up on HMV’s site, which is a famous Japanese music site.

So the official site was updated just now, revealing the May 11th release of AAA’s 28th single. New details are going to be revealed on the official site at a later date.

Here are the contents of each version.

[CD+DVD Jacket A]
<CD>
1. Untitled Song 1
2. Untitled Song 2
3. Untitled Song 1 (Instrumental)
4. Untitled Song 2 (Instrumental)
<DVD> Approximately 10 mins long
1. Untitled Song 1 (Music Clip)
2. Untitled Song 2 (Music Clip Making)

[CD+DVD Jacket B]
<CD>
1. Untitled Song 1
2. Untitled Song 2
3. Untitled Song 1 (Instrumental)
4. Untitled Song 2 (Instrumental)
<DVD> Approximately 10 mins long
1. Planned Clips

[CD]
<CD>
1. Untitled Song 1
2. Untitled Song 2
3. Untitled Song 3
4. Untitled Song 1 (Instrumental)
5. Untitled Song 2 (Instrumental)

Is it just me or do I feel a Komuro coming? Having an “untitled song 3″ in the CD only version feels as if they’re doing another Komuro cover. Or maybe we might get a live version, I’m not sure. Anyway, let’s hope it’s something new. Are you guys excited? I am!

As we revealed previously, the first single is probably going to be called “Charge ▶ Go!”, which will be used for Morinaga’s “Weider in Jelly” commercial. It is rumoured to be released on May 11th 2011. Our sources explain that this music will be a happy, refreshing tune that’ll remind us of the old AAA.

We are not sure what to expect for the 2nd and 3rd singles for the consecutive releases, but I’m sure they’re going to be just as awesome. When they did something similar to this in their 1st anniversary, we never had a song that wasn’t of a low quality, so I think quality can be assured And I believe that all that’ll be included in these singles are the songs, and the instrumentals to them. So there’ll be no coupling songs, I believe.

Now, the problem I’m having with this is that AAA just seems further away, with them being more successful. But AAA always tries to be close to the fans, like holding postcard events, talk shows, bus tours and such. I do hope AAA will always do so, because when people get popular, a lot of people do forget about how they were like before the fame.

This is happy news to me, but not really happy for my wallet. Gotta start saving up

Sources: TAKAUNO | SHINSEIDO

Note: The image of this post is a fake cover I tried to create for Charge ▶ Go!. Forgive me for removing Goto-chan from the image. I really didn’t want to do it, but I wanted to try to create a cover that might be close to the actual.

So with all the hype during the end of year, we have THREE CM tie ups to expect from AAA! Okay, I capitalised “three” because I want you to look at that number. Have we ever had such a number from AAA before? I’m really glad.

1. Morinaga’s “Choco Monaca Jumbo”
Nishijima will be in Morinaga Sweets’ new commercial, “Choco Monaca Jumbo”! We don’t know whether AAA’s songs will be used in this CM. He’s going to be featured in it with Chisa from GIRL NEXT DOOR. It was revealed that Nissy will be wearing costumes that he has never won before.

2. Morinaga’s “Weider in Jelly”
AAA’s new song “Charge ▶ Go!” will be the CM song to this product. It’s only going to be the song used, and the members won’t be in it, I guess.

3. Ito Yokado’s “New Life”
AAA will be featured in Ito Yokado’s “New Life” CM, which will promote products to buy for when you move homes. It’s April, the season in Japan that a lot of people move. Every single member will be featured in it, and so I’m really excited. The end product looks amazing, with AAA’s smiles looking great. We haven’t seen AAA on TV without suits and everything, and they look really awesome! Bet more people will know the greatness of AAA through this. “Daiji na Koto” will be used as the tie-up song.
Watch the making and CM

New Song

So the new song’s going to be called ”Charge ▶ Go!” It’s going to be used for Weider in Jelly’s CM. We don’t know whether it’ll be a single song or TaNoCa, but we believe it will be in their next single, although I think they won’t advertise this as the main song. Looking from the title of the song and the CM that the song will be used for, I think we may be getting our old AAA back.

The name of the shop we went  was “Ito-Yokado”, one of  the biggest supermarket chains in Japan.

In Japan, there are several big supermarket chains. The biggest one is the “Seven and I group”.

It has an “Ito-Yokado” and the famous brand of convenience stores known as Seven-Eleven.

A long time ago,  Seven Eleven was established in USA, but its stock was bought by the Seven and I group, so it is now part of a retail conglomerate in Japan.