HUNTING FOR YOU
HUNTING FOR YOU
Song Information
Artist: Togo Project feat. Megu & Scotty D.
Composition/Arrangement: Hiroyuki Togo
Lyrics: Scotty D.
Vocals: Megu, Scotty D.
BPM: 105
Length: 1:13 (arcade beatmania) 1:32 (beatmania APPEND GOTTAMIX, DanceDanceRevolution)
Genre: R&B
VJ: ? (beatmania), ? (beatmania (2006))
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania 4thMIX -the beat goes on-
Other Music Game Appearances:
Lyrics
Game Size
No more will I wait I've got to make my move You'd never treat me wrong If you knew how I'm feelin' Baby can't you see? To make you mine, oh mine I'll turn things upside down (upside down) Hunting for you Why don't you love me? (Oh oh oh) I want some kissin' cuz you know what I'm missin' (Yeah) The earth goes quakin' when you're keepin' me shakin' (Oh) Gonna start my chasing now I wanna catch you and make you meow You're the sweetest How can I win your heart? In a moment I'll crash Nothing will calm me down 'Til you really love me Darlin', hold me tight No more will I wait I've got to make my move You'd never treat me wrong If you knew how I'm feelin' Baby can't you see? To make you mine, oh mine I'll turn things upside down (upside down) Hunting for you Why...
Song Connections / Remixes
- A long version of HUNTING FOR YOU can be found on the beatmania GOTTAMIX Original Soundtracks album.
- An 8-bit arrangement of HUNTING FOR YOU by Gaku Hirose appears in beatmania GB2 ガッチャミックス.
- A remix of HUNTING FOR YOU by P&ART SASANOOOHA, titled Hunting for You -P&ART SASANOOOHA mix-, can be found on the beatmania THE FINAL Original Soundtrack album.
- An extended version of HUNTING FOR YOU, titled Hunting for you beatmania-DA!! Special Version, can be found in beatmania BEST打!! and beatmania打打打!!.
- The arcade beatmania version of HUNTING FOR YOU is shorter than the version that appears in beatmania APPEND GOTTAMIX and OSTs.
- beatmania (2006) and the DanceDanceRevolution series use the OST-length version of the song.
Trivia
- In beatmania APPEND GOTTAMIX and beatmania (Europe), HUNTING FOR YOU's title is capitalized as Hunting for You.
- In beatmania GB2 ガッチャミックス and beatmania THE FINAL, the title is capitalized as Hunting For You.
- In the DanceDanceRevolution series, the title is capitalized as Hunting for you.
- In beatmania APPEND GOTTAMIX and beatmania BEST HITS, Hunting for You's artist is shown as Togo Project featuring Megu & Scotty D..
- In beatmania 4thMIX and the beatmania III series, HUNTING FOR YOU's artist is TOGO PROJECT feat. MEGU & SCOTTY D.
- In beatmania 5thMIX and beatmania completeMIX 2, HUNTING FOR YOU's artist was changed to Togo Project featuring Megu & Scotty D.
- beatmania (Europe) shows Hunting for You's artist as Togo Project (feat. Megu & Scotty D.).
- HUNTING FOR YOU received ANOTHER charts in beatmania completeMIX 2.
- The Single ANOTHER chart was carried to the beatmania III series in beatmania III APPEND CORE REMIX, while the Double ANOTHER chart was carried in beatmania III THE FINAL.
- Hunting for you is the only new, non-CS beatmania crossover in DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA.
- Hunting for you received new graphics and a Double BEGINNER chart in DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX4.
- Hunting for you was still present in the location test of DanceDanceRevolution X, with its new foot ratings.
Song Production Information
beatmania Append GOTTAMIX
Togo of "Togo Project"
R&B is shaking up the modern J-POP scene. The debut of Hikaru Utada definitely had a lot to do with it, but now artists are popping up like mushrooms in a rainy forest... Even looking at the charts, they used to be dominated by Komuro-style dance pop until just recently, but now I can feel the march of time. Record companies may make themselves more popular just by crowning themselves as a "female R&B vocalist" label, but there's just so many of them that I get a little fed up.
"R&B... Popular Black American music that debuted in the 1940s. Due to the sheer diversity in musical and performance styles - such as harmonic ballads, or jump blues in jazz combo form - no clear criteria for a definition has been established." (Excerpt from 'beatmania GOTTAMIX Official Guide', published by NTT)
... So it says. The characteristics of Japan's currently popular J-R&B genre are as follows. 1) Female vocalists with emotional singing and a sense of fashion both styled after Black women. 2) A slightly bouncy groove of around 100 BPM. The rhythm tracks use methods from breakbeats. 3) A "sad" minor seventh cyclical chord progression. ("Minor seventh" being the name of a musical chord, not a new version of 'Ultra Seven'...) 4) Simple bass phrases. The backing is somewhat low-key.
That's an explanation of the genre from a sound producer's perspective, but that's about it, right? For those of you who like the genre, your local store these days will have plenty of CDs lined up, so listen to a wide variety of albums.
In 'Hunting for you' for GOTTAMIX, I used a sequencer to compose everything except for the guitar. I like the song itself, too (I actually wrote the melody some years ago, so I'm quite fond of it.) The vocalist is Megumi Oka, who's scheduled to make her CD debut with a certain major record company. The English lyrics and rapping are courtesy of the mysterious (?) DJ Scotty D. The stocky, fierce-looking character that pops up in the game during the song is actually him! (When he takes off his sunglasses, he has really gentle eyes.)
A long version of the song will be included on 'GOTTAMIX Original Soundtracks' (KMCA-24 <LC428>), set to be released by Konami Music Entertainment on Friday, August 27th. The remix has tighter bass, and is a great listen, so be sure to check it out. See ya later!
beatmania 4thMIX
Here's another song ported over from GOTTAMIX on PlayStation. The track is your basic R&B number that has a catchy melody and rapping.
Video Production Information
None.
Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania difficulty rated from 1 to 9. beatmania (2006) difficulty rated from 1 to 10.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2, and 1 to 20 from X onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from KANI KANI CRAB and BEMANIWiki 2nd.)
beatmania
4thMIX Charts
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Hard | Another | Normal | Hard | Another | |
| Notecounts | 151 | 181 | 280 | 237 | 278 | 367 |
| beatmania 4thMIX→5thMIX | 2 | 3 | - | 2 | 3 | - |
| beatmania completeMIX 2 | ↑3 | 3 | 5 | ↑3 | 3 | 5 |
| beatmania THE FINAL | ↓2 | 3 | ↑6 | 3 | ↑5 | ↑7 |
| beatmania III | 2 | 3 | - | 2 | 3 | - |
| beatmania III APPEND CORE REMIX→APPEND 7thMIX | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | - |
| beatmania III THE FINAL | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| beatmania APPEND 4thMIX | 2 | 3 | - | 2 | 3 | - |
| beatmania APPEND 5thMIX | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
GOTTAMIX Charts
Standard Charts
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Hard | Another | Normal | Hard | Another | |
| Notecounts | 216 | - | - | 338 | - | - |
| beatmania APPEND GOTTAMIX | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | - |
| beatmania GB2 ガッチャミックス | ※3 | - | - | - | - | - |
| beatmania BEST HITS | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | - |
| beatmania (Europe) | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | - |
| beatmania (2006) | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | - |
※ Denotes chart has been changed from the original chart (total notes: 175).
Hard version Charts
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Hard | Another | Normal | Hard | Another | |
| Notecounts | 340 | - | - | 437 | - | - |
| beatmania APPEND GOTTAMIX | 5 | - | - | 5 | - | - |
| beatmania BEST HITS | 5 | - | - | 5 | - | - |
DanceDanceRevolution
| Game | Single | Double | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | |
| Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows | 44 / 0 | 75 / 5 | 139 / 22 | 230 / 12 | - / - / - | 79 / 3 | 154 / 17 | 244 / 16 | - / - / - |
| DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA→SuperNOVA2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | - | 2 | 5 | 7 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution X location test | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | - | 3 | 6 | 9 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX4 | N/A | 2 | 4 | 7 | - | 3 | 5 | 7 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA CS JP | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | - | 2 | 5 | 7 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution / Dancing Stage SuperNOVA2 CS US/EU | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | - | 2 | 5 | 7 | - |