news_jpop | NEWS news (week of Apr 16)

Fukuoka Apr 22 (noon)
- At the beginning of the MC NEWS went to grab drinks and take off their outer clothes they began talking without their mics.
  T: First of all, go guys all want to go out to lunch? Maybe for motsu nabe? Ah, is it motsu nikomi! [A signature dish of Fukuoka]
  S: Can those in the back hear?
  K: Shige you try and say it.
  S: (without his mic) Is it motsu nikomi!
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- T: In the past, Tegomass did acapella.
  K: You should do it now! What about Aoi Bench? Can you prepare that? Or Sunadokei?
  In response to Koyama getting overly excited at the idea of Tegomass singing together.
  M: Having someone like this among the members is annoying. (laughing)
  T: What’s up with you since yesterday? With NEWS ni Koi shite and things?
  T: Koyama-san put ‘NEWS’ on his ring finger and said ‘With this I married NEWS♡’, isn’t that odd!?
  K: Look! I got married♡
  K: Tegomass, hurry up and sing. Should we do Chirarizumu?
  Fans: Kya!!!
  K&S: Mou chotto♪ Mou chotto♪
  …
  While Tegomass are confirming the lyrics for Aoi Bench
  K&S: Iitaidake♪ Iitaidake♪ Iitaidakede iinjanai♪
  …
  K: Shige let’s make another song! If we did would you listen? It might be nice to make one like a unit. Like ‘Corn Soup’ or something.
  S: The lyrics for corn soup would be like, ‘[it] settles at the bottom of the can’
  K: ‘Inu Chuudoku (Dog Addiction)’ (laughing)
  S: ‘Akai Isu (Red Chair)’ (laughing)
  K: Like ‘(freshly painted)’
  …
  Koyama also sang Ginza Rhapsody and Shige was asked to sing Ayame. Tegomass, who had been sitting the entire time till then, got up.
  T: It’s our business too if you’re singing Ayame! Do we have cranes here? Do we?
  KoyaTegoMassu went on to use their bodies to form cranes.
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- K: Kids!
  M: YEAAHHH!
  K: Your face looks a lot scarier than you can imagine so stop that.
  K: Kids!!!!
  M: …….
  K: You’re not responding?
  M: The kid read the atmosphere.
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- Massu shared how his mother didn’t manage to hit NEVERLAND exhibit, even though she bought like 6 copies of their releases.
  K: Why don’t you take her there, since her son did most of the work.
  M: Nah I won’t. Maybe after everyone’s gone to see it.
  (Source)

Fukuoka Apr 22 (evening)
- There was a guy who shouted “Shige” in between songs
  K: That’s really not okay.
  M: People will start doing the same thing, so please, stop that.
  It seems Massu was pretty upset about that, since they treat the atmosphere between each song very importantly
  (Source)
- On weeeek and fans not jumping along
  M: Don’t think it’s okay to just move your hands along!
  
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- K: During
  JUMP AROUND I caught sight of Tegoshi, and thought ‘Yup, cute’, and Massu’s sunglasses were really cool. Really cool! And Shige was out of breath (laughing) But he was cool.
  (Source)
- Koyama went around the audience asking the little children who their favourite members are and what they like about them.
  K: The venue’s surprisingly big!
  He came across a kid cosplaying Big Brother Massu.
  M: Ah, that’s why I haven’t been getting offers for that. He’s right over there!
  Massu was also apparently the most popular among kids and he thanked them with a gentle smile.
  - - -
  K: Who do you like?
  Kid: Chige
  K: What do you like about Shige?
  Kid: Chacchoi (Kakkoii - Cool)
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- Another question from the audience:
  Q: Why are you all so cool?
  T: I guess because I work hard 24/7 to be cool
  S: It’s my genes. I’m thankful to my mother.
  M: I was lucky to be born this way.
  K: You’re not being humble at all!
  S: Koyama-san what about you?
  K: I’m just cool for no particular reason.
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- On wanting to do a coupling songs tour
  M: Something like Ura SMAP (referring to the pamS best album SMAP released in 2001). SWEN.
  M: It’d be nice if we could meet everyone again.
  K: We want to meet everyone everyday.
  M: (starts singing the chorus of Nishino Kana’s “Aitakute”)
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- K: Since my birthday’s close apparently starting tomorrow (Apr 23) there’s going to be a Koyama event [in NEWS ni Koishite].
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  K: Tegoshi, you’re always playing games when you have a free moment.
  T: Yeah! Because I’m a gamer! Yesterday after getting back to the hotel after the concert and dinner with everyone, I played games the whole time before going to sleep.
  K: He was shooting [things] like ‘Bang! Bang!’
  Fans: Kouya Koudou! (Knives Out)
  K: You don’t have to say it! We know!
  M: Wouldn’t it be interesting, if next time, after NEWS ni Koi shite, if we make a game where everyone fights Tegoshi? Called, ‘NEWS Koudou’.
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- K: It’s our 15th Anniversary year! Everyone thank you so much! We’ve had a lot of ups and downs [yama ari tani ari].
  S: It was like, up down down up down down [yama tani tani yama tani tani].
  M: It’s like ‘Tani demo kin’! [He’s quoting olympic champion judoka Tani Ryoko. Her motto was ‘Tani demo kin’, meaning ‘Gold even as a Tani’ after changing her surname after marrying.]
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- On the topic of how NEWS didn’t have many songs to do at their ‘A Happy "NEWS" year 2004 Shinshun’ concert [on the NEWS Nippon 0304 DVD].
  K: We really didn’t have any songs. (laughing)
  M: After coming on stage we sang NEWS Nippon, after the MC we sang NEWS Nippon, and for the encore we sang NEWS Nippon. It was like a NEWS Nippon Burger.
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- T: Shige did something cute earlier, after the first show he uses packing tape to remove the tattoos, and he said ‘Whoaa, It came off really cleanly!!’
  K: So cute
  S: Don’t say that! Normally if it doesn’t come off I have to scratch it off.
  K&M: Cuuute!
  K: Aren’t the length of his pants a bit short?♡
  K: When we get close he turns his back to us♡
  S: I understand how Tegoshi feels.
  M: When his hair get wet his perm comes out doesn’t it? ♡
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