NEWSPAPER(Vocal ver.)

NEWSPAPER(Vocal ver.)

Song Information

NEWSPAPER(Vocal ver.)'s jacket.

Artist: YOSHIKO SAKAI
Composition/Arrangement: Toshio Sakurai, Hideyuki Ono
Lyrics: Handsome JET
Vocals: YOSHIKO SAKAI
Guitars/Bass & Drum Programming: Toshio Sakurai
Featuring: KAERU-NO-GASSYO
Recording Engineer: Miho Toyoda
BPM: 163
Length: 1:23
Movie: muroi
First Music Game Appearance: GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

Japanese

今日も朝早くから 
届いた新聞紙 
3面の片隅で 
誰かがキレていた

少年の犯罪を 
どこかの偉い人 
ゲームのせいにして 
あっさり片付けた

ママ真面目な顔して 
考え込んでるけど 
見ているのはテレビ欄

ニュースにさえならない 
ボク達の毎日が 
きっとこうして続いてく

Song Connections / Remixes

• NEWSPAPER(Vocal ver.) is a slightly arranged vocal version of NEWSPAPER, from GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX & drummania 3rdMIX.

Trivia

This song has different backgrounds, banners, jackets, or other related images. For more information, please see this page.

• YOSHIKO SAKAI, the vocalist of NEWSPAPER(Vocal ver.), was chosen to sing this song as a result of a contest held in 2000 to find a vocalist for NEWSPAPER [1].
• Since its debut, NEWSPAPER(Vocal ver.) has replaced the original version of NEWSPAPER for all future GuitarFreaks & DrumMania releases. The one exception is PercussionFreaks 4thMIX, which uses the instrumental version of NEWSPAPER.
• NEWSPAPER(Vocal ver.)'s Bass charts were removed in GUITARFREAKS 6thMIX. These charts were revived in GUITARFREAKS 8thMIX.
• NEWSPAPER(Vocal ver.) is available in GUITARFREAKS 10thMIX & drummania 9thMIX and GUITARFREAKS 11thMIX & drummania 10thMIX with an e-AMUSEMENT account.
  • NEWSPAPER(Vocal ver.) has been made automatically available in Standard Mode as of GuitarFreaks V & DrumMania V.

Song Production Information

Sakurai

We were looking for vocalists, and we really got a lot of submissions for this one. I want users to experience not only playing games but also making music. It was a lot of work to link it with the homepage report, but I had a great time meeting Sakai.

Ono

When I listened to many of the entries, I was shocked by how powerful they all were. It took a lot of power for us to receive them.
Sakai also enjoyed them and devoted himself to the recording. We have made something that is enjoyable to listen to.

Video Production Information

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

GF/DM difficulty rated from 1 to 99. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

Game	Drum			Guitar			Bass			Open
	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Basic	Advanced	Extreme	Basic	Advanced	Extreme
Notecounts	-	669	796	379	379	379	420	420	-	-	-	-
GF5/dm4	-	75	90	63	72	78	N/A	N/A	-	-	-	-
GF6/dm5	-	75	90	63	72	78	-	-	-	-	-	-
GF7/dm6	-	↓52	↓55	↓30	↓45	↑81	-	-	-	-	-	-
GF8/dm7	-	↑55	↑58	↑34	↑51	↑86	36	78	-	-	-	-
GF8/dm7 power-up ver.→GF/DM V2	-	55	58	↓33	↓50	86	↓35	↑79	-	-	-	-
GF/DM V3→V8	-	55	↑64	33	50	↓79	35	79	-	-	-	-
GF/DM MASTERPIECE SILVER	-	55	58	33	50	86	35	79	-	-	-	-