Neu

This page is for neu, which appears in pop'n music 15 ADVENTURE. For NEU! by √thumm from jubeat knit, please see NEU!.

neu

Song Information

neu's pop'n music banner.

Artist: 少年ラジオ
Composition/Arrangement/Lyrics: Shounen Radio
Vocals: Yu Tokiwa
Guitar/Bass: Asaki
BPM: 95 (NORMAL), 199 (HYPER/EX/ANOTHER, jubeat)
Length: 2:07 (NORMAL), 2:09 (HYPER), 2:27 (EX/ANOTHER), 2:11 (jubeat)
Genre: NIENTE (ニエンテ)
pop'n music Character: ? [15]
pop'n CG design: ちっぴー
VJ: VJ GYO → 板垣聖一(IMAGICA)
First Music Game Appearance: pop'n music 15 ADVENTURE
Other Music Game Appearances:

• beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro
• jubeat saucer

Lyrics

Long Version

One bright Monday morning I overslept
The world ended without harbinger
One bright Monday morning
The world ended fleeting too easily

All the while looking
A spectacle called doomsday
I lost in thought

There was nothing from the beginning, too
Therefore I only muttered...

Neu...(x5)

Pow! Got him in the eye
The melancholy music got me
That matter is settled

Light & dark
Night & day
Smile & cry

Don't be light & dark
Night & day
Smile & cry
You and me!

Neu...

Pow! Got him in the eye
The melancholy music got me
That matter is settled

Light & dark
Night & day
Smile & cry

One bright Monday morning I overslept
One bright Monday morning 
The world ended fleeting too easily

One bright Monday morning I overslept
The world ended without harbinger
One bright Monday morning
The world ended fleeting too easily

Don't be light & dark
Night & day
Smile & cry

Don't be light & dark
Night & day
Smile & cry
You and me!

Neu...(x3)

Pow! Got him in the eye
The melancholy music got me
That matter is settled

Light & dark
Night & day
Smile & cry(x2)

Song Connections / Remixes

• neu is one of the few songs in pop'n music which has 3 different versions, each one playable on the NORMAL, HYPER and EX difficulties.
  • Also, both 5-Buttons and 7-Buttons use the respective version of neu for its difficulties.
• At the beginning of each version of neu (with the exception of pop'n music's and beatmania IIDX's NORMAL chart versions), a different song is sampled:
  • The pop'n music HYPER chart version of neu samples 天庭.
  • The pop'n music EX chart version of neu samples ZETA～素数の世界と超越者～.
  • The beatmania IIDX HYPER chart samples moon_child.
  • The beatmania IIDX ANOTHER chart version samples 少年A.
  • The jubeat version uses a combination of the pop'n music and beatmania IIDX HYPER and EX/ANOTHER versions, this time sampling 少年リップルズ.
• A remix of neu, titled uən, can be found in pop'n music portable 2.
• Another remix of neu by cosMo@暴走P, titled neu BSP style, can be found in SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH.
• A long version of neu can be found on pop'n music 15 ADVENTURE AC ♡ CS pop'n music 14 FEVER! original soundtrack.
  • A different long version appears on wac's album, 音楽. This long version samples OVER THE CLOUDS / Regulus, Linus, カモミール・バスルーム, Spica, ペパーミントは私の敵, Make A Difference, Votum stellarum, Lucy, mind, 僕の飛行機, 怒れる大きな白い馬, Vairocana, Little Little Princess, Ganymede. hora de verdad, 踊るフィーバーロボ, 繚乱ヒットチャート, カーニバルの主題による人形のためのいびつな狂想曲, smile, ロクブテ, なつやすみのぼうけん, World Spider Web, Saturn, oratio, 卑弥呼, Habibe (Antuh muhkele), 背水之陣, La libertad, 辞世テンプレート, 序, 旅人リラン, perditus†paradisus, 幻想リフレクト, gloom, Remain, BabeL ~roof garden~, prompt and chilblain. It also plays a portion of moon_child after all the other samples.
  • neu's long version on the 音楽 album also plays uən after the wac medley.
• An arranged medley of neu, 天庭 and ZETA～素数の世界と超越者～ by Osamu Kubota, titled Le Swing (天庭・ZETA～素数の世界と超越者～・neu), can be found on the V-RARE SOUNDTRACK 17: pop'n music portable album.

Trivia

• Neu, pronounced "noi", is German for "new".
• neu's genre, "niente", is Italian for "nil". In music, this direction refers to a soft sound or tone gradually fading to silence.
• With 1,899 notes on its EX chart, neu has the most notes of any non-LONG Version song in pop'n music history.
• neu is the pop'n music 15 ADVENTURE LIMIT BURST (EXTRA STAGE) of beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro. It became unlockable on 10/31/2012.
• In beatmania IIDX, neu used beatmania IIDX 10th style's TECHNO generic movie, however, near the end of neu's ANOTHER chart the movie goes black. This might be because the video was adjusted to the NORMAL and HYPER versions' length, which is around 20 seconds shorter than the ANOTHER version of neu.
  • This was fixed on December 6th, 2012, when neu's video was changed to beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro's TECHNO generic movie instead.
• In both beatmania IIDX and pop'n music, neu uses its NORMAL version as the music preview.
• neu is one of the songs part of the Mimi Nyami & Kotaro no Flying Catch! (ミミニャミ・コタローのフライングキャッチ！) event. It can be unlocked in jubeat saucer since June 3rd, 2013.
• neu received a brand new BEGINNER chart in beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA.

Music Comment

Untranslated.

Song Production Information

In short: Nothing, nonsense, radio, song, piano, guitar, daybreak, delusion, cultural festivals, genuflection, influenza, tenacity -- all mistaken.

Beyond the light and the dark, nothing remains; who would suggest such a thing?

Nothing.
No merit.
Is this nothing?
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing...

Well, then:
What, exactly, is nothing?

It's a key characteristic of the world of nothingness.
Is it, now?
The world of naught emotion.
Is it, now?
The world of no sound.
Is it, now?
The world of even no pop-kuns.
Is it, now?
Even though it seems rather unreasonable,
In truth, nothing is ever unreasonable.
Therefore, I don't have a single thought.
What is here?

Rather, this is the world of all existence.
Is it, now?
In what way can there be such a thing living without form?
Quite a paradox.

The end of repeating questions and answers
Struggling factions
Before beginnings, and after endings,
Nothing that lives is questioning

In short:
The beginning and the end of the world has been enclosed.
There, everything has been compressed
Paradoxical nothing is born, unquestioning
Surely I really don't know the meaning of this.

In short:
The world, the light, the darkness, the dawn, the dusk, the smiles, the tears, the closing, the music, the game, the Internet, the feelings, your presence, myself, and some other things here and there...
They have been lumped together.
"Everything shall disappear," it was said,
A worn face scolding with fresh emotion
This is a song, a package with everything in it.
As for the flu --
Well, every time I make music, thoughts like that just spring from my head.

Nevertheless,
this feeling is only another of my creations.
There are a lot of feelings put into pop'n 15 as a whole.
Either way, this harsh world is an interesting yet tough place.

With these words,
even if we have something to lose,
Let's give it our all.

Ahaha.

< Shounen Radio >

Character Information

-- Is this a form present in the world? From the joy of light? From the sadness of the dark??
Everything is in it and the small events of past meetings. --

It began with the demo song that May that had mixed opinions...
Even when you think you've understood everything,
This is where all of the boss characters originate from.
Emotions that have been present throughout the years pierce through its body
Of water
Of earth
Of fire
From the joy of light
From the sadness of the dark
In this magnificent world, overnight, a shape was formed.
The purpose of its existence was to begin a trip to seek and meet people all over this new world.
It had met MZD in a past encounter - for a small time, he took care of the form.

Take a careful look; it's the size of your palm.

< Chippi >

Video Production Information

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
jubeat difficulty rated from 1 to 10.
pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 43 through pop'n music 20 fantasia, and 1 to 50 through Sunny Park. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from Pop'n Music Fever and BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

beatmania IIDX

Game	SP Difficulty				DP Difficulty
	Beginner	Normal	Hyper	Another	Normal	Hyper	Another
Notecounts	99	504	1099	1999	521	999	1999
beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro	-	6	10	12	6	10	12
beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA→Present	1	6	10	12	6	10	12

jubeat

Game	Level
	Basic	Advanced	Extreme
Notecounts	386	546	881
jubeat saucer→Present	5	8	10

pop'n music

Game	Standard				Battle		PSP-Exclusive
	5 Button	Normal	Hyper	EX	Normal	Hyper	5B Hyper	7 Button	7B Hyper
Notecounts	256	460	999	1899	240	511	?	?	?
pop'n music 15 ADVENTURE→17 THE MOVIE	12	24	36	42	10	19	-	-	-
pop'n music 18 せんごく列伝→20 fantasia	12	24	36	↑43	10	19	-	-	-
pop'n music Sunny Park→Present	-	↑30	↑42	↑49	10	19	-	-	-
pop'n music portable	12	24	36	42	10	-	30	18	40