oops, sorry! :laugh matsujun is still so beautiful, though! :smitten

ever could be a ballad! :yes but yay for a sakurap! boom boom's gonna be crazy! :tipsy

yeah I have a strong feeling ever will be a ballad , given the nature of the A-side

it's like Love Rainbow & over which's the same thing but hey you never know

I'm more excited to hear Boom Boom cos when I see Sakurap on the list , I went *__* xD

if only sho could include a rap for an a-side, though! :( hopefully somtime in the near future, since i expect arashi to release something by the summertime. single or album. :laugh

i also just realized that Lotus is arashi's first single to be released in february since Step & Go :P random i know, lol.

it has been almost 2 years + since they released an A-side with a Sakurap ;__; , I hope this drought will be gone soon

lol yeah Step and Go was released some 3 Feb's back :p & I still can't believe that because of that song , it kinda kick started my ARASHI music journey , during the time when I was so infatutated with Ken Hirai lmao :P

i found the PV on the day it came out! it was a friday! i think ayaka's te wo tsunagou PV came out too! :laugh i remember watching HYD seasons 1 & 2 before that, though. that started everything for me! :laugh i casually followed arashi from then on with DAL & One Love, but it wasn't until the summer with truth that i became a full fan! that's when we (you, me & irene) all posted about JE like crazy, remember karen? :tipsy

*sigh* time flies, lol. it'll almost be 3 years! :weep i'm sorry if i'm spamming, but i'm not doing anything else & i'll post more just so we can finish this thread already! :roflmao

yeah 2008 was really awesome in so many ways :heart , I opened the door to listen to Johnny's & decide to ditch listening/supporting to English music & pursue listening to JPop full time , which's something I don't regret doing even up to now <3

For me , it was because of Ken Hirai's obsession with Kitto Daijoubu which led me to try what's so good about the song :p & I still LOL at Ken's attempt to rap like Sakurai which he failed badly xD

Even though I'm not in the Johnny's fandom as much as I once was , I still keep up to date with the latest updates on them

haha, he was even rapping? :roflmao i wonder how it must have sounded! epic fail, i'm sure? :laugh

come to think of it, i pretty much started to listen to only jpop since 2008, too. but i followed kumi straight since 2006 (i found the "you" PV in late 2005, though :P) and other artists in 2007. :P

yes Ken Hirai did do a bit of Sakurap during the MC of his Ken's Bar concert which's hilarious

He also said that he had to restrain himself from dancing when Kitto Daijoubu comes on because he has 2 left feet & he also commented that it so will not fit his image :rofl

A while back ago when both artistes were on MUSIC STATION to perform/promote their material (I think it was 2 years ago or was it last year ?) , he still said that Kitto Daijoubu's his fave ARASHI song to date xD

For me , I started listening to JPop from late 2006 onwards ... omg I can't believe it :thud

LOL! kitto daijoubu will always be a classic from arashi!! :D i love the part in the PV when sho's car collapses while he's rapping, LOL. the rainbow in the background always reminds me of the looney tunes for some reason. or some other cartoon that i can't remember the name of atm. :tipsy

haha Kitto Daijoubu is still a classic even up to now for sure

it's just so catchy & the PV is downright colourful & epic :p . Too bad the cover artworks are less desirable ~_~ , they should have used the Rainbow backdrop from the PV & with them posing as suits

instead of the group looking like a bunch of homeless people in those outfits they wore on the covers LOL

LOL! yea, those covers were kinda...cheap! :laugh they just used lots of green text & the picture of the guys was taken from the PV, since it was kinda behind the scenes of the cover shooting. :P

i like how in the inside picture, there's pics of the guys, though! and their names in english. thankfully arashi has better covers now! some are still simple, but it still looks good. :P

looking back at their earlier single covers , some were really bad

like for WISH , those covers are quite o_O & MatsuJun having black painted fingernails kinda scares me D:

Love so sweet was xD but We can make it ! was so gloomy for my liking :no

In fact for those that I singled out , they weren't wearing the same outfits as what you can see in the PVs but for others like Step and Go , Believe , Love Rainbow , they did

hopefully that will apply to Lotus as well

matsujun also had that black nail polish in D no Arashi! was he trying to look goth or something?! :roflmao once he started HYD, he went back to normal! :smitten i really liked nino's hairstyle in the WISH cover, though!

i never understood what tiny little cars had to do with love, LOL. jun looked fantastic, of course, but it should have been a cute cover! i don't mind we can make it! because everyone looked really hot. especially matsujun! :heart i notice the exclamation mark was in the colors of the italian flag because of Bambino! LOL.

those white suits in Lotus look really nice, so i hope the covers are nice too! i still love hatenai sora's covers! :)

i mentioned matsujun 3 times in one post, LOL. omg...:laugh i can't help it...:smitten

ooo I help you spam!!!

I thought the Happiness covers were always cute!! Nino looks so cute on one of them, I think the regular edition!!
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1441/...1happiness.jpg
:love

i liked Happiness covers too because the scenery was pretty nice! very simple but still sweet. the font is really cute, too! :heart the PV is still amazing until now, too!! :roflmao

yeah the Happiness PV is still awesome til now <3 & noticed that the ending for both Happiness & Troublemaker are like the same ? :P

Poor Ohno being pushed around by the rest for all the camera's worth LOL

Omg it's my favourite PV from Arashi!!!
Oh I have a gif from it:

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/3589/ummmh.gif

:laugh

^ ohmiya are looking really...sexy! :lech

:roflmao

but yup, ohno bullying is the best! i watched a clip a few weeks ago on youtube, and it was from Utaban. nakai was after ohno like crazy when he made a comment! it was hilarious! :laugh

LOL that Happiness gif is frankly really tame , as compared to other antics that I seen of artistes 8D

omg yes I only watch Utaban because of Ohno vs Nakai antics lmao . I'm still sore that Utaban has concluded ;__; but their never ending spats are classic

took me a while to erase seeing Watermelon = Ohno throwing it at Nakai & then Nakai sitting on it before he fell down :roflmao :roflmao :roflmao :roflmao

Oh look last post time for thread 30!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go Lisa go!!!!!!!!!!