Waterfall & Wings Version 1

Was yakkin with Yvie so late into the night yesterday that i slept until 1.30pm today! XDD Felt so guilty waking up so late knowing that Takki works his ass out for us everyday... Sumamisen, Takki! But you do know that the only reason i stay up so late every night is because of you!! Not that i have anything MAJOR to do even if i woke up early... i would have just got online earlier... LOL~ Oh gawd, seriously, my social life is ZILCH everytime Takki activities are on a high.... which is pretty much always. Yabaai na.

Anyway, was fumbling around my living room in a sleepyhead mode looking for food when i suddenly SIGHTED the parcel on the dining table!!! KYAAAHHH~~~ Have been waiting and waiting for it the past 2 days and for a moment when u are NOT thinking about it, TADA!! I was starving already but i still grabbed the box and rushed back into my room. And oh man, the people sure SEALED it up like crazy... i had such a HARD TIME opening the box!! And i finally opened it up and .... My Kamen CDs, mattemashita yo~

I have to say, the photo booklet is really really done up tastefully this time... it is sooooo elegant!!! Soooo classy!! Totally in sync with the overall image, totally belongs there with the black-white theme this year! *kicks the fugly Matsuken Samba stick to Pluto Neptune* But i was telling Yosho, how i hate it when they opt to do spreads... cos it is absolutely humanly impossible to look at the spread properly without tearing up the book!!! If they want to do spreads, fine! Err... just give us a BIGGER PHOTOBOOK! lol~

And oooh, Kamen sounds SOOOO MUCH MORE *INTENSE* with CD quality!!! Now i no longer feel guilty putting it on auto-repeat.. ahhaha... and i really plug in my mega headphones and BLAST IT on my comp... Just to you know... create a surround-sound effect... like how it would really sound in concert... and oh-la-la... it's a concert song thru and thru... intense melody, complete with super cool (and complicated) dance steps!!! I REALLY LOVE KAMEN. i love the song, i love the way T&T sound, i love the dance steps, i love the PV!!! The only thing i have problem with is the hadaka in the PV... i STILL do not know why they put in that... *shrugs* And how come Takki's hair appears soo black in that part? i want blonde blonde Takki...

Mirai Koukai. Actually i haven't heard enough of this song cos i am still very caught up with Kamen! Hahahahha... but it really has an anime feel to it. And yea, this fresh feeling. But i prefer concerty songs, and Kamen definitely WINS hands down here...

And the karaoke versions, issit just me, but why do i seem to hear the background singers singing "true heaarrrrt..." at the very beginning of Kamen? hahah... i wonder if im thinking too much. Yosho said he hears it more as "oooh aaah" or something... But hey, "true heart" makes more sense... LOL~

Finally, ROMANTIC. i realised, after REJECTING the offer of hearing the MP3 for sooo long, I DUN HAVE ROMANTIC!!! Lmaaooooo~~~~ I didn't want to spoil myself! But i totally FORGOT that Romantic is only available in the regular press, which i didn't order!! i plan to get it only when i reach Japan but haaa~~ No i CANNOT wait this long... i need to hear it now so in case they decide to sing in it in the concert, i can sing along!! So, *coughs* im getting the Romantic MP3 afterall... but hey! at least now i dun feel GUILTY about listening to the MP3 cos technically, i am not spoiling myself. Bleah~

i'm going to rip Kamen out and overwrite the radio version i have in my flashdrive now... It is going to be soo much clearer and nicer!!! I get so hyped up everytime i listen to it.. it's definitely one of the BEST T&T dance tracks! Up there with Diamond and all!! Just imagine, listening to them back to back...

To be + Diamond + Kamen = SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION!!!

Anyway, was flipping June's Myojo just now. I actually haven look thru the magazine properly since i got it... LOL. There's a Young Song insert in it and wakakakaka, i realised there's actually an article on T&T in it!! OMG, that's THREE articles on Takki in one issue of Myojo alone!! This, the one with Ueto Aya and with Tsubasa! Definitely worth the money. Takki fans, YOU MUST GET IT!!!

Anyway, was reading the article and Tsubasa was saying that Mirai Koukai has existed for some time already, always the backup song for single but neva quite made it somehow. Now, being chosen as the ending theme for One Piece, it finally gets recorded into a single. And the feel of Mirai is very hmmm.. "soft", which makes it a good contrast with Kamen. But the part where i BURST OUT LAUGHING was the part about the title "Kamen".

Apparently when Serenade was released, there was also an interview on them in Young Song? In that interview, Takki supposedly declared he is going to standardise all Takitsuba's romantic songs and create a "3-kanji-character series". That is to say, the kanji names of all Takitsuba's romantic songs from then on will all have 3 characters. Like 愛想曲 for Serenade. So now the reporter is like, "But Kamen (仮面) only has 2...??" And Takki burst out laughing.

Takki: *laughs*. Actually, this song was written to be the ending song for the movie Mask 2. So the title is kinda fixed to be "Kamen" from the start. But if we were to be particular and insist on 3 characters, it might become something like "Tetsu Kamen"... That sounds terrible so we gave up and settled on Kamen this time.

Oh my gawd, 鉄仮面???? (which means metal mask)

LMAAAOOOO.... noooooooooooo.... This is sooo hilarious... hahhahahahha Thank GOD you gave up on that Takki, else it would have been RIDICULOUS!!! LOL~~~ DUN NEED TO BE SO PERSISTENT WITH CERTAIN THINGS ne ne?? omg, why do i keep thinking of that Leonardo DiCaprio's "Man with the Iron Mask"... hahahhah.... LUCKY this aho didn't seem to have a say in the name of the song this time... thank god indeed.

Saw Utaban's Kamen performance. They din sing the whole song but ooooooohh, it is definitely much BETTER than their first MS one... So much MORE ANGST in it this time!!! You can sooo see Takki's super intense look (complete with arched eyebrows) in this one... Woohoo~~~ HOT.