#single: Rottara Rottara

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ROTTARA ROTTARA (“LOTTA LOVE, LOTTA LOVE”)

“How much of a heart full of love—how much of a heart full of love—do we need to carry, before we’re able to tell each other?”

OR: A girl realizes that her feelings for the friend she’s growing up together with need to be shared before the moment’s gone.

(honto?) (ee~?)

(For real?) (Whaaa?)

Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love

kyou no bokutachi ga otonan natte shimaeba kitto mieteru mono sae mienaku natte shimau

If who we are today     turn into adults, I’m sure we’ll become unable to see    even what we see right now

kyou made bokutachi ga muchuu ni natte sagashita mono wa honto wa ittai nandattan darou

The thing we searched like crazy for, up until today— I seriously wonder what the heck it was

dareka ga itta 「shiawase ni naru tame umare, soshite dareka wo shiawase ni suru tame ikiteikunda」

Someone once said “We’re born to be happy, And we go on living to make someone else happy”

dore kurai    mune ippai no ai wo dore kurai    mune ippai no ai wo kakaetara    bokura    tsutaerarerun darou

How much of a heart full of love How much of a heart full of love Do we need to carry    before we’re able to tell each other?

kore kurai    mune ippai no ai de kore kurai    mune ippai no ai de kimi wo dakishimeta sono toki ni futari kanjita SHIAWASE

With a heart that’s this full of love With a heart that’s this full of love I hugged you, and at that moment The two of us felt HAPPY

Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love (nande?) Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love

Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love (How come?) Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love

hitori ja mienai kedo futari nara mieteita mono ga konna ni takusan aru tte shiranakattanda

The things I couldn’t see alone But that I was able to see when we were together— I didn’t know there were so many of them

te to te wo tsunageba    kanjirareru nanika soba ni ireba zutto kienai mono ga hoshii

That “something” that I’m able to feel    when we hold hands If you’re by my side, I want it to be something that never disappears

TANPOPO no hana mitai ni fukeba tondeiku ryuusei no you ni yozora e isshun de kieteiku

Like a dandelion, it scatters to the wind Like a shooting star, it vanishes into the night sky in the blink of an eye

dore kurai    yume ippai no hibi wo dore kurai    yume ippai no hibi wo ano hi    bokutachi wa    hashirinuketan darou

How many days full of dreams How many days full of dreams Did we    run through back then?

are kurai    yume ippai no hibi ni are kurai    yume ippai no hibi ni kimi wo dakishimeta hazu nano ni futari nakushita SHIAWASE

In those days so full of dreams In those days so full of dreams I should have hugged you, and yet We lost our HAPPINESS

dareka ga itta 「shiawase ni naru tame umare, soshite dareka wo shiawase ni suru tame ikiteikunda」

Someone once said “We’re born to be happy, And we go on living to make someone else happy”

dore kurai    mune ippai no ai wo dore kurai    mune ippai no ai wo kakaetara    bokura    tsutaerarerun darou

How much of a heart full of love How much of a heart full of love Do we need to carry    before we’re able to tell each other?

kore kurai    mune ippai no ai de kore kurai    mune ippai no ai de kimi wo dakishimeta sono toki ni futari kanjita SHIAWASE

With a heart that’s this full of love With a heart that’s this full of love I hugged you, and at that moment The two of us felt HAPPY

Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love (nande?) Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love

Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love (How come?) Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love

Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love (honto?) Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love

Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love (For real?) Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love

Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love… (fuu…)

Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love Lotta love, Lotta love, Lotta love… (Phew)

[majokkoradio]

“Rottara Rottara” [Lotta’ Love Lotta’ Love] - Shugo Chara!! Doki - October 4, 2008

[haropro-confessions]

Rottara Rottara is probably one of the nicest singles overall imo. The PV was simple but cute, the outfits were lovely, the A-side AND B-side are both addictive songs.

[itshanni3]

2017 Kenshuusei Test Reactions

Hi guys~! As you probably know, I’m a big fan of Hello Project’s kenshuusei and have followed them very closely since becoming a fan. Every year, I like to listen to their annual recital/test to hear how they are all doing on an individual level with vocals.

This comes with absolutely no bias for most everyone but probably Momohime. I generally forget who I’m listening to, outside of Momohime, so I feel like they’re pretty unbiased and just my opinion of the singing I’m hearing.

I tend to be overly critical a lot, so keep that in mind. I will also mention, if I do know/am remembering who’s singing, improvement or maybe disappointments in something that was good in previous years. :)

These are in order of their performance! ^_^ Ishiguri Kanami - Only You (Morning Musume) Unstable at the very beginning, but then had extremely good breath support considering the song and dance. The head voice parts weren't perfect, but really enjoyable and there's a lot of talent here. Yamazaki Mei - Chu! Natsu Party (3-nin Matsuri) Stupid stable at the beginning and brought personality into her performance. Perfect performance from what we have to hear. Shimakura Rika - Be Alive (Morning Musume) Definitely had some nervous shakes in her voice on some of the longer notes. Very pleasant voice to listen to. Hit every note strongly and caught all the little bits MM did when performing--lacked emotion in her performance/voice. Sounds a lot like Risako on her belty notes. Hibi Marina - Glass no Pumps (Goto Maki) Very shaky voice and lacks strength, but has a very unique tone. Still really not unpleasant to hear. Sounds terrified but really has the vocals for this song if she can gain the confidance. Pretty sure even the person that judged her said she sounded scared LOL Kawamura Ayano - Mugen Climax (C-ute) Very stable performer--higher pitched Karin voice and I didn't expect that. Kudou Yume - Chotto Guchoku ni! Chototsu Moushin (Kobushi Factory) Odd song choice but starts off strong with hitting the cute and strong bits. Gets slightly off beat but still sings the song better than some of Kobushi. Slurs her words a lot so should work on that for sure. Running out of breath--again, odd song choice for a solo. Kitagawa Ryou - Dance de Bakoon! (C-ute) Keeps running out of breath and could enunciate more! I'm curious to see her expression because she sounds bored some times and I know her default expression is ._. The high parts are definitely too high for her but not everyone has to be that "main vocal" in groups. Matsunaga Riai - SONGS (Morning Musume) Lacks vocal stability but has so much potential--hit a lot of belt notes dead on and perfectly. I think she needs to work on breath control and she'll be fantastic. Her singing voice is a total 180 from her speaking voice--reminds me a lot of Rikako. Eguchi Saya - What is LOVE? (Morning Musume) Sounds like Masaki when she joined but in a good way (I'm not a fan of Masaki's voice). Her squeaks actually worked in this and I think, if she can improve her breath support just a pinch, she'll be an incredibly strong vocalist. This dance is difficult to do while singing so I'm a bit impressed. Doi Rena - Ima Sugu Tobikomu Yuuki (Morning Musume) Higher notes were great but seemed maybe nervous, as was shaky and went off pitch a bit. Yamazaki Yuhane - Magic of Love (Juice=Juice 2015 vrs.) Perfect. This performance may have pushed her to my favorite kenshuusei after Momohime. Crap. You can really feel her passion and feeling in this performance, on top of the perfectly solid vocals. I wouldn't even know what to tell her to improve on but she deserved best performance unless her dance was totally horrible (which I doubt, as we know she's a solid performer overall). Inoue Hikaru - My alright sky (Buono!/Suzuki Airi) Her runs were pretty sloppy for someone who has this many years of experience now. She was honestly a bit unstable, but she's improved a lot from when she joined. I hope she works on carrying her "ii" sounds outside of her nose--that killed the end of the performance for me. That said, she's improved IMMENSENLY since she joined so I'm still happy with this. I disagree with the judges giving her an award for it, but if it's based on her improvements, I'm cool with it. (Not like I get a say any ways and I'm not WATCHING it in the moment so I'm sure it's different. :)) Yonemura Kirara - Tokaikko Junjou (C-ute) So much improvement from last year--get it girl. Still could use help with breath support--she lost a lot of what she had when she had no time for a proper breath--could be song choice too. But she sounded like she gave it her all. I think she did well! Nishida Shiori - Take off is now! (Morning Musume) Such a husky voice! I loved that I could understand every single thing she said and she punched every note perfectly until the very last note (which she did all the last part in one breath so completely understandable). Yamada Ichigo - MY BOY (Buono!) For someone with idol experience performing before this, she was missing a lot of notes. She seems to struggle with breath support so I'd really like to see how hard she danced. I definitely think it's the breath support, as she got to a part where there's way less movement and nailed the notes there. Her dance was said to be surprising so I look forward to maybe getting a clip of it! Maeda Kokoro - Suki Sugite Baka Mitai (DEF.DIVA) VERY shocking performance for me--she's improved a lot. Couldn't quite get to the high notes but still stable outside of those--will continue to improve each year I think. Kodama Sakiko - Rottara Rottara (Buono!) This song choice was one I saw and went D: y. She is slightly off key at the beginning but picks it up, then gets off again. She definitely needs more time but you can tell she's having fun and is trying to get the audience into it. Just like Hikaru, needs to learn to carry her vowels outside of her noise.Sato Hikari Definitely singing for the sake of singing but has a strong base as a vocalist. This song choice was another odd one for me, personally. It doesn't suit a soloist very well, but, considering that, she did pretty darn good. Needs to work on feeling the song! I think one of the judges may have just said that, but I'm not 100% paying attention to the judges. Kanatsu Mizuki - Are Kore Shitai! (Juice=Juice) A lot of the audience seems excited about her--I'm surprised. She seemed really unpopular to me (I always thought she was cute!). Was she inspired by Juice=Juice in this? She seems to be mimicking their "isms" in this song a lot. But holy crap has she improved since last year! Needs better support on the higher notes, but I think she did extremely well compared to the past. She lost breath support at the end, but that was her biggest struggle I could find before so go her for doing well up until that point! I'm super proud of her! Kiyono Momohime - Mr. Moonlight (Morning Musume) Personality and strong vocals--just as expected from Momohime! She ran out of breath a few times but remained strong throughout. Not the best song for a solo but she did well. Kawano Minori - Oh my wish! (Morning Musume) Very strong performance--sounds a lot like Miki. Lost some of the higher belt notes but very strong voice. Takase Kurumi - Baby! Koi ni Knockout (Pucchi Moni) I expected a little more from her. She was a bit unstable but I'm wondering if she's losing air. Her performance was still great but not as good as it has been in the past! Horie Kizuki - Waserete Ageru (ANGERME) I forgot I was listening to the kenshuusei when this one came on--I thought I was listening to a MM concert and someone's solo. She did really fantastic! I look forward to clips of her dancing (hopefully we get some!). Ono Kotomi - Akai Nikkichou (Akagumi 4) So much improvement since last year! How is this the same girl from last year's test?! She did really fantastic until it got to the higher part. Hashisako Rin - Massara Blue Jeans (C-ute) I think we found the weakest singer in the bunch so far--but she almost nailed the belting parts. Her range just seems a little small for this song. Her personality seems really fantastic, though. The way she talks and answers questions almost reminds me of Taguchin. (That's a good thing.) I could see this girl doing Minimoni Telephone ga Rin Rin Rin for LOLs. Okamura Minami - Tropical Koi Shiteru (Matsuura Aya) I'm normally not a fan of "cuter/higher" voices, but hers really draws me in. She did a really great job and you can tell she had fun singing it as well. Nakayami Natsume - Aisuru Hito no Namae wo Nikki ni (Berryz Koubou) I definitely expected more out of her but, with this song choice, there's not much that can be done. She did alright--it was sadly just a boring choice, but I think she still did just fine. Noguchi Kurumi - Take off is now! (Morning Musume) I liked the energy she brought to this song versus the other one. Her pitch was as stable but she almost had a bit of "sexiness" and "fierce" feeling in some of her lines. If she can get pitch down 100%, I think her vocals will be stellar. I'm interested to see her expressions because her voice spoke a lot. I'd like to see it reflected in her expressions as well. Oota Haruka - Chokotto Love! (Pucchi Moni) I lied, I think this is currently the worst singer in the bunch, which is really saying something because she wasn't horrible. I love Kanatsu Mizuki but, when she first joined, she was worse than this. The standards for the kenshuusei must be super high now. This was a bit painful at times at how off key she was but she did throw a lot of personality in, which will get her far. Her expressions are really good, I know, so I think she'll be fine if she just keeps working at pitch. Ichioka Reina - Hitorijime Shitakatta Dake Nano ni (C-ute) I'll never forget the first time we heard her and her singing was just...not there. LOL It just wasn't. She's improved leaps and bounds and, while I think most of her popularity comes from her being a kenshuusei for a long time, she deserves to debut. That said, I'd 100% have swapped she and Kaedy. I may eat my words when we find out what she's actually doing. Her idol appearance has really improved, as has her stage presense. I think she can stand to work on feeling what she's singing but she's still doing better than a lot of her juniors--Ruru, for example, could learn a lot from her. She SHOULD be doing better than her juniors, but a lot of these girls below her have experience, too. Danbara Ruru - Give me love (Morning Musume) Oh sweet jesus. What's wrong with her in this performance? I know she normally just sings to sing without emotion, but she's pushing WAY too hard. This isn't that kind of song. Sorry--tangent over. I don't like what she's doing with her belts now. She's also a lot less stable than she has been in the past. Her runs were very nice, at least. I wonder if she's sick or something because of this was just...not up to par for her.

[helloidols]

im bored + feel like sharing the first songs i ever heard from jpop groups/soloists so:

if i group i like isn’t listed it means i’ve followed them from debut (ex: kobushi, country girls) and the first was their debut single

ºC-ute: Ooki Ai de Motenshite (this was my first jpop/h!p song ever)

Berryz Koubou: 1oku3zenman Sou Diet Oukoku

Morning Musume: One Two Three

ANGERME: Otome no Gyakushuu

Juice=Juice: Senobi

Buono!: Rottara Rottara

AKB48: Seifuku ga Jama wo Suru

Perfume: Laser Beam

BABYMETAL: Megistune

lyrical school: FRESH!!

KPP: Kira Kira Killer

palet: Run to the New Wind

Momoiro Clover Z: Moon Pride

Dempagumi.inc: Sakura Apparition

E-girls: Highschool love

FEMM: Kiss the Rain

BiS: my lxxx

Charisma.com: HATE

Cheeky Parade: BUNBUN9

DAOKO: ShibuyaK

Yumemiru Adolescence: Bye Bye My Days

Faires: Tweet Dream

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MY LOVE

“The important things in this world definitely can’t be bought with money. We who are in love need only a blue sky and a soft breeze.”

OR: Ska + Miura Yoshiko = what is easily one of Buono’s top 3 b-sides.

kimi ni moratta hatsu MEERU hyokkori detekita nikkichou DEETO no toki tsukutte ageta obentou

The first text I got from you The diary entries in which you suddenly started appearing The lunches I packed for our date

ano hi mitsuketa nagareboshi futari negatta negaigoto terewarai de kimi ga itta 「ARIGATOU」

The shooting star we spotted that day The wish we made together The “thank you” you gave me with a shy smile

kimi to iru kara    tanoshiku nareru kimi ga iru dake de ii

It’s because I’m with you that I’m able to have fun— You being there is all I need

kono yo ni aru daiji na mono kitto OKANE ja kaemasen koi wo shiteru watashitachi wa aoi sora to soyokaze dake areba ii yo

The important things in this world Definitely can’t be bought with money We who are in love Are good with only a blue sky and a soft breeze

ochikonda hi no PIISU SAIN utatte kureta 「RINDA RINDA」 minna no hakushu soshite ANKOORU

The peace sign you flashed me when I was feeling down The “Linda Linda” cover that you sang for me¹ Everyone’s applause, and then the encore call

kimi to KISU shita yume no naka doudemo ii you na oshaberi ashita mo hare da    akai yuuyake

Kissing you inside my dreams Spending time just shooting the breeze Tomorrow too, we’ll have clear skies—the red sunset

kimi ga warau to    watashi mo warau jikan wo wasurete shimau

When you laugh, I laugh too We forget all about the time

kono yo ni aru SUTEKI na mono kitto OKANE ja kaemasen koi wo shitara watashitachi wa nanimo kamo ga sukoshi kagayaite miemasu

The wonderful things in this world Definitely can’t be bought with money When we fall in love, Everything seems to shine a little

kono yo ni aru daiji na mono kitto OKANE ja kaemasen koi wo shiteru watashitachi wa aoi sora to soyokaze dake…

The important things in this world Definitely can’t be bought with money We who are in love With only a blue sky and a soft breeze…

kono yo ni aru SUTEKI na mono kitto OKANE ja kaemasen koi wo shitara watashitachi wa nanimo kamo ga sukoshi kagayaite miemasu

The wonderful things in this world Definitely can’t be bought with money When we fall in love, Everything seems to shine a little

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¹ A reference to THE BLUE HEART’S iconic 1987 single “Linda Linda” which re-entered popular culture in 2005 (3 years before My Love was released) due to the movie Linda Linda Linda, which was about high school girls covering the song at their school’s cultural festival (a la Rock no Kamisama’s lyrics).As a side note, Buono! themselves covered Linda Linda for all of like, 40 seconds, but I can never NOT link the video, so.