OPERATOR

OPERATOR

Song Information

OPERATOR's banner.

Artist: PAPAYA
Composition/Lyrics: Handberg / Honeycutt
Arrangement/Production/Mixing: Honeycutt
Vocals: Papaya
Co-Production/Mixing: Longhorn
Album: Pink (1998)
BPM: 135
Length: 1:14 (beatmania), 1:30 (DanceDanceRevolution)
Genre: DANCEMANIA
Movie: KAERU
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania 5thMIX -time to get down-
Other Music Game Appearances:

• beatmania III
• DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX

Lyrics

Operator, operator,
Please hook me up
To my lover
at the end of the line

Operator, operator,
Please hook me up
To my lover
gotta know that he's mine

Operator, operator,
Please hook me up
To my lover
at the end of the line

Operator, operator,
Please hook me up
To my lover
gotta know that he's mine

When darkness falls
and I'm all alone

I need you to call me
on the telephone

When night time comes
and I don't have a choice

Once again I need
to hear your sweet little voice

I heard a song
on the radio

I'll call you up
to sing it for you

So if you turn
on the radio
You will feel the magic too

Operator, operator,
Please hook me up
To my lover
at the end of the line

Operator, operator,
Please hook me up
To my lover
gotta know that he's mine

Please hook me up to my lover

Please hook me up to my lover

Song Connections / Remixes

• The beatmania series uses Operator (Original Radio Mix) from PAPAYA's Operator single, rather than the album version of the song.
• An 8-bit arrangement of OPERATOR appears in DanceDanceRevolution GB2.

Trivia

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• In DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX, OPERATOR was titled OPERATOR (Two Gees Mix), despite that the original version of OPERATOR is used in BEMANI. This was corrected on the DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX Original Soundtrack album and later in DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX VER.KOREA.
  • However, this mistake was kept in DanceDanceRevolution GB2 and in the DanceDanceRevolution 5thMIX CS DATA BANK.
• From DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX to 4thMIX PLUS, OPERATOR was labeled under the Dancemania X3 album.
• OPERATOR received new Double NORMAL and HARD charts in beatmania III (although both charts are identical).
• OPERATOR (hard version)'s charts would later be transferred to OPERATOR as its ANOTHER charts in beatmania completeMIX 2.
• OPERATOR is absent from hiphopmania completeMIX 2, the North American release of beatmania completeMIX 2.
• OPERATOR received a new Single MANIAC chart in DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX PLUS.
• In DanceDanceRevolution GB2, OPERATOR (Two Gees Mix) runs at 137 BPM.
• OPERATOR also appears in Andamiro/Fun In Motion's PUMP IT UP PRO2 and Step Revolution's StepManiaX.

Song Production Information

PAPAYA (real name Linnea Handberg) was born in 1976 to a Swedish father and a Russian-Danish mother.
She composed songs herself for Denmark's Scandinavian Records in 1997, debuting with the song Hero.
A hit in Europe, it was even released in 1998 under Madonna's label Maverick Records.
PAPAYA unveiled her debut album Pink in February 1999, with this song being the latest single from that album. (From Dancemania X3)

Video Production Information

I just went with the easy option of phones. Sorry.
Thinking of the cute vocals and song lyrics being aimed towards girls, I made the backgrounds poppy colors.
Even beatmania can be cute once in a while.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania difficulty rated from 1 to 9.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty from 2ndMIX CLUB VER. through 5thMIX (and the Solo games) rated from 1 to 9. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from KANI KANI CRAB.)

beatmania

Old Charts

Game	SP Difficulty			DP Difficulty
	Normal	Hard	Another	Normal	Hard	Another
Notecounts	195	195	-	210	210	-
beatmania 5thMIX	3	3	-	3	3	-
beatmania APPEND 5thMIX	3	3	-	3	3	-

hard version Charts

Game	SP Difficulty			DP Difficulty
	Normal	Hard	Another	Normal	Hard	Another
Notecounts	-	255	-	-	254	-
beatmania 5thMIX	-	4	-	-	4	-
beatmania APPEND 5thMIX	-	4	-	-	4	-

New Charts

Game	SP Difficulty			DP Difficulty
	Normal	Hard	Another	Normal	Hard	Another
Notecounts	195	195	255	210	210	254
beatmania completeMIX 2	3	3	4	3	3	4

beatmania III Charts

Game	SP Difficulty			DP Difficulty
	Normal	Hard	Another	Normal	Hard	Another
Notecounts	195	195	255	214	214	254
beatmania III	3	3	4	3	3	4

DanceDanceRevolution

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	- / -	146 / 0	182 / 0	272 / 0	- / - / -	144 / 0	208 / 0	243 / 0	- / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX→4thMIX	-	3	5	7	-	4	7	8	-
DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX PLUS	-	3	5	※8	-	4	7	8	-
DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX CS	-	3	5	7	-	4	7	8	-
DanceDanceRevolution GB2	-	3	5	7	-	-	-	-	-

※ This chart is different from the earlier MANIAC chart (total notes: 276).

DanceDanceRevolution Solo

Game	6 Panels
	Basic	Trick	Maniac
Notecounts	143	179	263
DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX Solo→4thMIX PLUS Solo	3	5	7