NEWSPAPER(Vocal ver.)

NEWSPAPER (Vocal ver.)

Song Information

File:NEWSPAPER (Vocal ver.).png

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

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• 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 Percussion Freaks 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

Untranslated.

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	-	-	-	-