■EXILE TAKAHIRO, Nogizaka46 Shiori Kubo & Yuki Yoda, INI Takumi Ozaki & Daimu Takatsuka & Kyosuke Fujimaki reveal their memories of “winter masterpieces” & “winter filming”?
On December 7th, Nippon Television’s “with MUSIC” will be broadcast as a 2-hour special with the theme of “Winter Masterpieces” starting at 7pm.
■Performing artists/singing songs*Artist name in alphabetical order
INI “WMDA (Where My Drums At)”
EXILE TAKAHIRO “Lovers Again”
Kis-My-Ft2 “Curtain call”
King & Prince “WOW” “Ai Katamari”
Crystal Kay “All I Want for Christmas is You” “Shiroi Koibitotachi”
JY Park’s “Easy Lover” “Christmas Eve”
Nogizaka46 “Pedestrian Bridge”
May J. “All I Want for Christmas is You” “My Lover is Santa Claus”
Green-yellow society “one thing a fool remembers”
The program will feature a ranking of the best winter songs sung at karaoke over the 25 years from 2000 to 2024, with the theme of “Top 50 Songs Most Sung in Winter.” EXILE TAKAHIRO, Nogizaka46’s Shiori Kubo and Yuki Yoda, INI’s Takumi Ozaki, Daimu Takatsuka, and Kyosuke Fujimaki will appear in the studio to talk about famous winter songs.
Fujimaki, who said that he entered this world because he loves EXILE, revealed to EXILE TAKAHIRO that when they were able to co-star in the past, “TAKAHIRO-san was nearby (in the group photo),” and he cut it out to make a two-shot style standby. EXILE TAKAHIRO then promised to take a photo with them, saying, “Let’s meet again later.”
When EXILE’s “Tada…Aitakute” appeared in the winter masterpiece ranking, EXILE TAKAHIRO explained how to sing this song, which he himself continues to sing as “a song that I treasure.” When he demonstrated how to sing the chorus, everyone applauded, and artist navigator Kohei Matsushita, who says at karaoke, “When I’m feeling good, I sing it about three times,” couldn’t help but ask EXILE TAKAHIRO, “Let’s go to karaoke next time…” .
EXILE TAKAHIRO also reveals a song from the 1980s that is “the first song I sang in my life.” “I heard that all of my relatives would get together for New Year’s, and at that time, they would use the table as a stage and sing while holding something like a toilet paper roll.” What is this famous winter song?
The winter song that Ozaki remembers is “Fuyu Monogatari” by J SOUL BROTHERS III. So, MC Yumiko Udo, who previously took on the role of running man for the third generation J SOUL BROTHERS “RYUSEI,” takes on the challenge again with Ozaki…
They also talked about the “happenings” of filming winter music videos and other things. Nogizaka46 members said, “No matter how cold it gets, we wear light clothes,” and Kubo said, “My manager was carrying a lot of bench coats, and every time there was a cut (for a photo shoot), he ran over to me,” and “The members hugged each other.” Let’s get together and warm each other,” she says, revealing the situation during the winter MV shooting.
Takatsuka, who often shoots INI’s MVs in Korea, says, “I don’t really do ◯◯ while shooting MVs.” You were filming in the cold Korean winter, but what did you keep in mind when you said, “(The song) will be released in early spring or before summer…”?
■Christmas song project delivered from the gorgeous illuminations of Yomiuriland!
Crystal Kay and May J. sang Christmas songs from Yomiuriland’s gorgeous 60th anniversary special illuminations.
Crystal Kay x May J. will perform a special collaboration on the classic Christmas song “All I Want for Christmas is You”, Crystal Kay will perform Keisuke Kuwata’s famous song “Shiroi Koibitotachi”, May J. will perform Yumi Matsutoya’s “Koibito” will give a solo performance of “Santa Claus”.
JY Park, the founder of the agency to which TWICE and Stray Kids belong, and the creator of NiziU and NEXZ, performs for the first time on “with MUSIC”.
They will sing their latest song “Easy Lover” and Tatsuro Yamashita’s “Christmas Eve”, which will be performed for the first time on Japanese TV.
EXILE TAKAHIRO, who is also performing for the first time with “with MUSIC”, performed the “EXILE RESPECT” version of EXILE’s hit song “Lovers Again”, which is representative of love ballads.
Kis-My-Ft2 performed their latest song “Curtain call,” while Midoriya Society performed their latest song “Baka no Hitotsumomomo,” which is the theme song for a movie starring Minami Hamabe and Eiji Akaso.
King & Prince will deliver their latest song “WOW” produced in collaboration with Daichi Miura and KinKi Kids’ hit love song “Ai Katamari” released in 2001.
INI performed their latest song “WMDA (Where My Drums At)”. Furthermore, the group’s main vocalists Takumi Ozaki, Daimu Takatsuka, and Kyosuke Fujimaki will perform Yuri’s hit song “Betelgeuse” for the first time on TV.
In addition, Nogizaka46 will perform their latest song “Pedestrian Bridge”, with 4th generation member Sakura Endo as the center.
■The first official original goods of “with MUSIC” will be released!
The program’s first official original goods will go on sale from December 7th. With a glowing wristband and a face towel with the program logo, it is an item that allows you to enjoy music together.
The LED-lit wristbands are available in five types: red, blue, yellow, green, and pink, and the program goods will be sold at Nippon TV stores (Shiodome store and Tokyo Station store) and Nippon TV mail order (Nippon TV Poshre).
In addition to these program goods, original coffee with a package design that resembles the music playback screen of a subscription service or similar to “with MUSIC” will also be released at a later date. Details will be announced on the program’s SNS at a later date.
Program information
Nippon Television“with MUSIC” 2 hour special
12/07 (Sat) 19:00-20:54
MC: Yumiko Udo
Artist navigator: Kohei Matsushita
Performing artists (in alphabetical order): INI, EXILE TAKAHIRO, Kis-My-Ft2
King & Prince, Crystal Kay, JY Park, Nogizaka46, May J., Green Yellow Society
“with MUSIC” program site
https://www.ntv.co.jp/withmusic/
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