news_jpop | NEWS news (week of Mar 5)

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Mainichi Tamamori Yuta (Mar 5)
- Tama mentioned Koyama in his entry, saying he feels like going for a walk and that maybe he should invite Keichan along. He typed Keichan in 3 different forms and ended saying he likes Keichan.

KEIICHIRO (Mar 5)
- He said Tama’s entry was sly and they should meet. He also talked about how he’s been at NTV the entire day for “Seiko no Idenshi” and shared a photo of himself in the red checkered suit with his eyes shut, as he’s sleepy.

NEWSRING (Mar 7)
- It was Massu’s turn to update this week
- He first talked about how this is a tough period, with influenza and pollen allergy going around, and for everyone to do their best together.
  
  To continue the word chain, he picked “Irona Kaigai e” (Going to various places overseas). He’s been going for trips for 3 consecutive months, and while it hasn’t been made public where he went in March, everyone should be able to find out soon. He thanked the staff for their support for the trips and hopes to travel again elsewhere this year.

Masuda Takahisa no Marumaru (Mar 9)
- Masuda Takahisa no Life Motto
- This was the most eye-catching one from the requests made by the fans, and he said it’s a difficult question. He said it’s probably to be considerate of people around him and to treat them importantly. He probably gets to meet more people than people usually do but often he doesn’t get enough time to probably speak to everyone, though he really wants to, especially if they are people he works with.
  
  He also wants to be proud of the fact he’s a Johnny’s. As Masuda Takahisa, a member of NEWS, as well as Tegomass. While he doesn’t have a motto in particular, he’ll think about it and do his best with all his strength. For Johnny’s...and clothes!

Masuda Takahisa no Marumaru (Mar 11)
- Masuda Takahisa no rap
- He wrote about how he listens mostly to hiphop, but what he sings aren’t those. He thought a lot when they became 4, and overtime, also about their song variation, singing parts etc. He thought he might be able to handle mellow raps and that’s how things came to this. He wanted each of them to be responsible for their individual singing parts, and also to differentiate NEWS from Tegomass. What he really wants to say is EPCOTIA contains a lot of his rapping, such that the engineer joked that he’s become a rapper. He sings other parts too, of course. It’s a great album, so please look forward to it!

Tegomass went to watch CHEMISTRY’s concert on Mar 7. Massu was also caught on camera on the live telecast on WOWOW (Source 1 2)

On March 7th, Music producer, songwriter, and lyricist, Matsuo Kiyoshi, who has produced Chemistry and who gave them their name, tweeted about Tegomass coming to Chemistry’s concert. He said that he met them at the Grammy’s and that they met with Kawabata Kaname and Douchin Yoshikuni the two members of Chemistry in their dressing room afterwards. (Source)