Song Information
Artist: PAPAYA
Composition/Lyrics: Handberg / Honeycutt
Album: Dancemania X3 (1999)
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:
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 full, unmixed version of OPERATOR appears in PAPAYA's debut album, Pink.
- The beatmania series uses OPERATOR (Original Radio Mix) from PAPAYA's Operator single, while the DanceDanceRevolution series uses OPERATOR from PAPAYA's Pink album.
- An 8-bit arrangement of OPERATOR appears in DanceDanceRevolution GB2.
Trivia
- This song has different backgrounds, banners, jackets, or other related images. For more information, please see this page.
- 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 PLUS.
- This mistake was kept in DanceDanceRevolution GB2.
- 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.
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
|
