succeed
Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Well, it does if you’re a fan of Japan’s rising idol group, Hey! Say! JUMP..^__^..It’s the title of one of their new songs in the upcoming album, SUPER DELICATE. As the title goes, this time I have succeeded in recording two cover versions of Hey! Say! JUMP songs over the weekend..Yay me~! (^^,)..The two songs are Arigatou ~Sekai No Doko Ni Itemo~ and OVER. I have to say that for an ordinary person with no singing talent or whatsoever such as moi, singing these two songs has been a real challenge to both my voice and my breath. All this while I was singing along to them, I always thought that it was easy enough to cover or even imitate. I was wrong I supposed.
Singing Arigatou was REALLY hard as I kept running out of breath during the last chorus line “Wow wow wow wow, I LOVE YOU, Arigatou!” As it was quite difficult to keep a steady breathing during that part, I ended up recording the whole chorus over and over and over and over again! (LOL)..Another thing about Arigatou is that it has many overlapping voice part that I got to do. I especially had fun doing Hikaru’s background voice in the choruses and not to mention Yamada’s part at the last chorus..^__^..After hearing it afterwards, I found out that my voice came out a little different than usual during Yamada’s part. Hmm..I wonder why? (LOL)
For OVER, I was contemplating whether to make the song as a solo one or a group one. In the end, I decided to make it as a solo song anyway. But who knows? Maybe I might overdub it as a group song someday (giggles). OVER was a wee bit easier to record than Arigatou. It’s just that OVER have many silent parts that I needed to give extra attention to because a little mistake from me would spell disaster for the whole project! Well, maybe not a disaster. I was just exaggerating. Sorry! I especially love doing Takaki’s and Chinen’s part in the song and Hikaru’s rap part came out quite as a challenge because..Well, it’s rap and it’s in Japanese. Nuff said! (LOL)
All in all, I had so much fun during the whole recording process. I almost thought that I was a real recording artist at the time (LOL). Recording the two songs made me realized how much effort that I have and can put into doing something that I have decided to do. I also realize how Hey! Say! JUMP has become such a big influence in my life and that within a blink of an eye, has started to affect my feelings ever since I get to know them. From here on, I can proudly say that I am glad I got to know Hey! Say! JUMP and I am looking forward to follow their success in conquering Japan’s entertainment world. JUMP no mina-san, ganbatte~!!!