Bad boy

This page is for the beatmania IIDX KONAMI original song Bad boy sung by Vivi. For the licensed Gloria Estefan song in jukebeat, please see Bad Boy.

Bad boy

Song Information

Artist: Vivi
Composition/Arrangement/Lyrics: K.Ueno
Vocals: vivi
BPM: 95
Length: 1:47 (game version), 2:00 (OST)
Genre: DANCE POP
Movie: VJ GYO (illustrations by GOLI)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 2nd style
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

Japanese

はじけてった愛のボルテージが いまいち上がりきれない
見上げてる空の雲行きさえ 少しだけ怪しい感じ

(for you)
素直になればなるほど あなたがわからなくなってく
(for your love)
夜が来るたびに心が震える そんな時はここにいてほしい

Bad boy baby 癒せない
そんなキスじゃ物足りない 傷つけてよ
特別なこと ねだってるわけじゃないよ
私だけを 見ててよ

(Do you gonna make me free?)

Song Connections / Remixes

• The beatmania IIDX 3rd style Original Soundtracks version of Bad boy has a longer ending than the game cut.

Trivia

• Bad boy marks the first appearance of singer vivi in BEMANI.
  • It's also her only song with Keiichi Ueno.
• Although from beatmania IIDX 2nd style, Bad boy does not appear on the beatmania maniac-tracks album with the other 2nd style KONAMI original songs. It instead appeared on the beatmania IIDX 3rd style Original Soundtracks album seven months later.
• Bad boy received brand-new LIGHT charts in beatmania IIDX 4th style. The ANOTHER14 chart was moved down to 14KEY as well.
  • In beatmania IIDX 5th style and beatmania IIDX 6th style, though, Bad boy's Double charts were replaced with their original charts, but kept the new LIGHT7 chart. In beatmania IIDX 7th style though, the new Double charts returned, and were used for the rest of the series.
• From beatmania IIDX 3rd style to beatmania IIDX 8th style, Bad boy's BPM was shown as 94 BPM.
• According to Keiichi Ueno on his now defunct i-revo blog, he wanted to include both Shine On and Bad boy in Rewind!, but he did not due to Don Katsumoto's (ドン勝本) death in 2007, as he introduced both Shorai and vivi to Keiichi Ueno.

Song Production Information

dj TAKA

Compared to the previous DANCE POP songs, this song has quite a sad atmosphere, doesn't it?
The lyrics are also a bit sentimental, and their message of love? It touches my heart.
GOLI really loves these lyrics, and his repertoire has increased by one song.

Video Production Information

VJ GYO

Yeah, yeah.
I was impressed that GOLI, who was in charge of this song, said "the girl in the lyrics seems very pitiful".
I didn't notice it at all (I'm dense), but when I was aware of it, I felt sympathetic.
You may have already played this song many times, but please play and focus on the lyrics once more.
I think the overlay animations, represented with deep blue, were also made with this worldview in mind.
I'm sure of it...

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 7 in 2nd through 4th style, 1 to 7+ from 5th through 9th style, 1 to 8 in 10th style, 1 to 8+ in IIDX RED, and 1 to 12 from HAPPY SKY onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained respectively from IIDX Smart Data and Textage.cc.)

Original Charts

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts	-	249	331	-	-	-	336	337	-
beatmania IIDX 2nd style→3rd style	-	-	3	-	-	-	3	N/A	-
beatmania IIDX 5th style→6th style	-	2	3	-	-	-	↑4	N/A	-
beatmania IIDX 3rd style CS	-	-	3	-	-	-	3	3	-

New Charts

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts	-	249	331	-	-	275	337	-	-
beatmania IIDX 4th style	-	2	3	-	-	2	4	-	-
beatmania IIDX 7th style→12 HAPPY SKY	-	2	3	-	-	2	4	-	-
beatmania IIDX 7th style CS	-	2	3	-	-	2	4	-	-