NEWSPAPER(Vocal ver.)
NEWSPAPER (Vocal ver.)
Song Information
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: ?
First Music Game Appearance: GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX
Other Music Game Appearances:
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
- 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.
- Since its debut, NEWSPAPER (Vocal ver.) has replaced the original version of NEWSPAPER for all future GuitarFreaks & DrumMania releases (except the Percussion Freaks releases, which use the instrumental version of NEWSPAPER).
- NEWSPAPER (Vocal ver.)'s Bass charts were removed in drummania 5thMIX. These charts were revived in drummania 7thMIX.
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 | Drums | 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 | - | - | - | - |