Happy Wedding

Happy Wedding

Song Information

Happy Wedding's jacket.

Artist: ASKA
Composition/Arrangement/Lyrics: Takayuki Ishikawa
Vocals: ASKA
BPM: 126
Length: 2:08 (beatmania IIDX), 1:35 (DanceDanceRevolution)
Genre: HOUSE
Movie: shiro (overlays by GOLI)
Jacket design: RICE.C
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 7th style
Other Music Game Appearances:

• DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME

Lyrics

You dream about him every night,
but soon he sleeps by your side.
You can touch hand and hand,
and having a lovely lovely dream.

In your imagination I guess,
It's not the goal but only beginning.
Hundred years or more,
Don't forget to say "I love you!"

Happy your Happy your Happy your lovely Wedding
Happy your Happy your I say to you every night
Happy your Happy your Happy so sweet Wedding
Happy your Happy your every every morning

Song Connections / Remixes

• A long version of Happy Wedding, titled Happy Wedding (for party mix), appears on the beatmania IIDX 7th style Original Soundtrack album.
• The DanceDanceRevolution series uses a noticeably shorter version of Happy Wedding.

Trivia

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• According to Takayuki, he wrote Happy Wedding in celebration of one of the then-current beatmania IIDX VJs getting married (he doesn't mention which one).
• Celica appears throughout Happy Wedding's overlays. GOLI mentions in the song comments that the wedding dress Celica wears in the overlays is based on the same one the wife of the then-recent married VJ wore at their wedding.
  • A special overlay with Celica will appear towards the end of Happy Wedding if the player manages to full-combo the song up to the point where the overlay would trigger.
• Happy Wedding and A are the only songs with G2ARTS wallpapers not in the website of the same style they debuted in. They both appeared in beatmania IIDX 9th style's website instead.
• Happy Wedding received slightly updated overlays in beatmania IIDX 10th style.
• Happy Wedding's overlays were removed from the beatmania IIDX arcade games as of beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro due to technical issues.
• Happy Wedding's DanceDanceRevolution background features LADY.
• Happy Wedding received a unique video in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2. This video was carried to the arcade releases in DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA and eliminates any on-screen dancers prior to DanceDanceRevolution WORLD.
• Happy Wedding is unlockable in beatmania IIDX INFINITAS from January 9th, 2019, after purchasing its charts with BITs.
  • From April 20th, 2022, it is available by default in beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (2020).

Song Production Information

TAKA

After GOLI, GYO, and I had a brief discussion, the perfect plan was born.
I started making a song with animations and music related to weddings in connection with a certain VJ's wedding, and the title was first called "HAPPY WEDDING ○○○!", but I thought the situation was too limited, so I made a general wedding song.
Many people around me are recently getting married, but after marriage, your wife is waiting for you, and the relationship deteriorates, so it can get pretty boring around you, right?
Even when I attend wedding ceremonies, I also help organize it in tears, so I feel bad for my father.... when I think about it, it's becoming quite lonely, so I wanted to include the hidden joy and loneliness within the happiness in this song.
I thought about it, and I struggled a lot because I rarely write songs with a theme these days. I tried my best to express the tears associated with happiness and sadness, without using phrases and tones with blatant association with them.

Video Production Information

GOLI

Congratulations on your marriage. To a certain VJ.
By the way, the wedding dress is based on the wife of that certain VJ.
Thank you very much for your cooperation. I'm grateful for something.... a guarantee?

Payment...

Now, let's talk about the animation.

TAKA "HAPPY WEDDING ○○○! What's this?"

GOLI "Of course it's a gag song, right?"

TAKA "That's right."

GOLI "That's interesting, let's do it. You want to do it for impact?"

TAKA "That's right."

A few weeks later...
GOLI "How is it~? Did you do it~?"
TAKA "......... Something seems unreasonable"
GOLI "Are you satisfied with it? NOW... I GOT IT, i'm GOING TO DO IT!"

A few weeks later...
GOLI "Huh, what is it?"
TAKA "I did it. I made it."
GOLI "What?"
TAKA "HAPPY WEDDING.... Well, just listen to it now."
GOLI "Oh. It's nice. This...."

However..........

Where's the gag song?
I need to redraw it!!

In that case, it became the animations of Celica's dreams.

Staff Comments

RICE.C

I intended for this situation to be about LADY (1st), who was invited to her friend's wedding, and brilliantly caught the bouquet.

Who's that friend?

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 7 from 7th through 9th style, 1 to 8 in 10th, 1 to 8+ in 11 IIDX RED, and 1 to 12 from HAPPY SKY onwards.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2, and 1 to 20 from X onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

beatmania IIDX

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts	387	620	872	940	-	610	899	1061	-
beatmania IIDX 7th style→11 IIDX RED	-	6	7	N/A	-	5	7	N/A	-
beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY→Present	-	6	7	8	-	↑6	↑8	10	-
beatmania IIDX 7th style CS	3	6	7	7	-	5	7	7	-
beatmania IIDX INFINITAS	-	6	7	8	-	6	8	10	-
beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE	-	6	7	8	-	-	-	-	-

DanceDanceRevolution

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	86 / 0	131 / 1	177 / 8	264 / 6	- / - / -	135 / 1	179 / 9	261 / 5	- / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME→SuperNOVA2	1	3	5	7	-	3	5	6	-
DanceDanceRevolution X→Present	3	4	6	10	-	5	6	9	-
DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS JP	1	3	5	7	-	3	5	6	-
DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2 / Dancing Stage Max	1	3	5	7	-	3	5	6	-
DanceDanceRevolution GRAND PRIX	3	4	6	10	-	5	6	9	-