tracklist is awesome! :O

(and just a minor correction for the romaji -- it's "kaze" not "fuu" ;))

Really like the song titles. They're really creative! ANd I'm looking forward to three new PVs!

I'm really excited for this single! I hope it sounds more like them because I didn't like the Freedom experiment at all and what's more important it did not work well in the charts

GALNECO ?, XD
3 new pvs, great

New single does sound exciting :D...looking forward to this so much!

update of Chisa's blog

http://community.livejournal.com/ran...gs/236302.html

http://blog.girlnextdoor.jp/mtmt_img...588_thumb.jpeg

ME WANT ME WANT !

OMG :thud I want!! I want!!!
I love chocolate so much!!!!

I found on someone's blog the set list for GND's first tour~

＜セトリ＞
01. Drive away
02. 空へ
03. Fine after rain
04. Seeds of dream
05. Climber's high
06. red ribbon 〜運命の人〜
07. 幸福の条件
08. ESCAPE
09. 無防備な純愛
10. Orion
11. 情熱の代償
12. sa･ku･ra
13. Breath
〜衣装チェンジ〜
14. Freedom（New）
15. Tri△ngle
16. Jump
17. Be your wings
18. FRIENDSHIP
19. Infinity
ENC1. サヨナラ（Freedom C/W）
ENC2. 偶然の確率



:D

Nice tracklist.

I really hope someone'll upload in the dl section GND first concert! I would like to see what they can do in a concert (other than a-nation)

^ I hope avex actually releases it on DVD :P

http://i38.tinypic.com/2cr2g5i.jpg

Here's a picture from a-nation~

Chisa got a new haircut and haircolor?! :o

GND's first concert has no Freedom?

^ Freedom is number 14 ;)

And yeah I'm so used to seeing Chisa with dark hair O_o.

^ sorry :(

Yeah. Looks great.

I think avex'll do it. GND seems to be popular in Japan. Moreover they did it for alan so I think, they'll release the first concert of GND too.

I wonder if the concert'll be broadcast on TV before.

concert was already broadcasted a long time ago

http://www.jpopsuki.eu/torrents.php?id=40709

I had no idea that the concert was on JpopSuki hahaha.
Downloading it now :D (though, it doesn't seem to be the full concert)

I used to live on that site, but ever since the new layout, It's harder to keep track of stuff :P

Anyway, yeah, I guess your right. If alan got a dvd release, GND will definitely get one haha.

GOD I didn't know!
thanks

Almost didn't recognize Chisa with the lighter hair!

chisa looks good with her new hairstyle & color! i like her outfit much better than last year's outfit :P

For one of GND's new PVs, they're using extras from their fanclub!!

And I'm entering myself ;)

I'm alowed to bring someone with me if I choose to do so--which is great!! Because, while I speak Japanese, I'm not fluent xD So that's where my roommate comes in... haha

sounds like fun to me :D

did they state which PV they will be recruiting extras to star in with them or they didn't ? :O

OMG!! :thud

Really lucky.
It must be a sympathic experience.

They didn't state which song it was for unfortunately :(

And also, at a-nation tomorrow and Sunday, if you pre-order the new single you are able to shake GND's hands haha.

didn't FRIENDSHIP ask for extras too? i hope this PV will be more than just chisa singing on a stage, lol.

That's very cool that you're able to participate :) Enjoy! Chisa looks pretty with a fringe... :)

http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/8905/03351673.jpg

nice color but I think dark brown is better.

^ Ditto. She looks cute with her new haircut but I prefered her previous hairstyle

I just found this picture for the people who are interessted. A preview of Ready to be lady?

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8349/gndrtbl001.jpg

It looks like a ballad song te me, If you look at the picture :P
But then again GND's ballad are always up-tempo,

*ps sorry for my bad English* >_<;

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8349/gndrtbl001.jpg

Preview from GND's single ready to be lady? It looks like a ballad to me :P

Ps. sry If there are two posts by me.. something went wrong >_<;

PikaPiiKawaiiChu~ at JPM posted a cover preview...:D

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/8349/gndrtbl001.jpg

O.O wow the pic looks nice.

very simplistic and autumn-ish! :D i really like it.

i like it a lot too

that makes a really nice promo pic of the trio

I hope the covers for all 3 editions of Ready to be lady will be nice :)

I think they'll be!^^

So, today, at a-nation, I pre-ordered Ready to be lady.

And I got to shake all of the member's hands! :love

Chisa was so cute in person! And I even got to talk to her! (Well, for like, 40 seconds haha.)
And she even remembers me because my friend tweeted to her on Twitter!
It was so cool :D

And I got to choose from 10 pins with Chisa's face on them :P

OMG!!! You're so lucky!!!!

Did you take a pic of you & her?

aww, i wanna meet chisa, too! :P

speaking of chisa, i was reading the booklet of GIRL NEXT DOOR's first album, and in the "Chisa's Thanks" section, she thanks "My IceCream", LOL. she really loves ice cream, doesn't she? :mini

It's true O.O :laugh

God. I can understand her. Ice cream is so delicious.

she does & she did the same thing with regards to the CD sleeves of NEXT FUTURE too ~_~ xD

No pictures were allowed unfortunately :(

It's a pity >.<

She does! In an interview she mentioned how she's a fan of http://www.coldstonecreamery.com/ and loves the silverberry taste.

promo picture:

as expected really beautiful promo pic.
I love Chisa's hair.

Song Capsule of Wind will be a theme song for Birdman. I wrote a short article about it :)

good promo pic !!! i like it

Kaze no Capsule 30sec. preview: http://www.ytv.co.jp/birdman/news/2010song.html (click on the green button with musicnote).

it's like another seeds of dream, but i think it's better :P

very nice & as usual , Chisa's in the spotlight haha

o_O

omg Birdman - a BREAKERZ song on 1st look xD

Well yeah she would get the spotlight. She is the main singer after all (and the other members are fug so might as well use the prettiest one)

xD

honestly I think the other 2 , Daisuke & Yuji ain't 1/2 bad looking if I say so myself

but it's too bad for casual listeners , they might assume Chisa = GND only :O

Well Chisa is obviously the face of GND... the others seem more focused on working on the creative team and be in the background. They don't seem particularly concerned though... never saw them trying to be in the spotlight but more like the opposite.

And with the birdman theme seems they have gone back to Seeds of Dreams mode... let's see what will come out of it :P

Can someone rip this?

http://i55.tinypic.com/28u5ptv.jpg

Here's the official cover for Ready to be lady CD+DVD A version.
It appears that they've gone away from using the same font and symbol that's been used for their previous releases. :)

And that promo pic is amazing. :)

Also, I've been working on the information for the 5th thread, so I'd appreciate it if I could make the next one. ;) thank you!

it's funny that Chisa looked somewhat bigger on the cover than Daisuke & Yuji combined :laugh xD

but that's a nice cover despite the small size & I really like the choice of font they used too !

by all means go ahead :D

simple but pretty. i couldn't say the same thing for Freedom's cover, lol. i kinda miss their more "creative" covers, though. but it's alright :)

I like the cover. :)

I like I like the promo pic more then the cover ^^

It's because she close to us than them.^^

Too tiny to say if I like or not. I feel as Chisa has a weird expression.

Nat translated Chisa's yesterday blog entry

http://community.livejournal.com/ran...gs/255078.html

http://blog.girlnextdoor.jp/mtmt_img...63635_pic.jpeg

LOL she seems to always blog about food (especially desserts) a great deal o_O & omg I want that ice cream from Haagen-Dazs ;__;

Haha yeah her blog is mostly just icecream :P i saw that the other day, but it's so expensive for such a small amount xD

GOD Haagen-Dazs is expensive icecream

I wonder if she has a freezer only for her ice creams? XD

haha it wouldn't surprise me if Chisa's fridge in her house has nothing but ice cream & more ice cream alone ~_~

I'm going to be an extra in GND's new pv! I still don't know which song, but it will be filmed on Sept. 6th! :D

congrats!! :yatta make sure you tell us all about it if you can!

oh that's great :D!

PS : did you get picked for Miliyah's tour as well ? :D

i just noticed on the cover that they changed "Ready to be lady" to 'Ready to be a lady" :P engrish fixed, lol.

Yum, that ice cream looks good :D

really ?, woww good luck

Im pretty sure the fanclub members are just going to be like the audience, so I think it's a "live" type PV. But it's being filmed at a zoo...so who knows how it will turn out... haha

@Utena: Yes, I got tickets for that too!--but, I might have to end up selling them...:(
@Beauty4123: Haha, I didn't notice it either until you said something! :D

LOL I didn't noticed that til you said so , Lisa #failedmode

http://i55.tinypic.com/28u5ptv.jpg

so yup it's Ready to be a lady now , much better xD

sharp-eye. I didn't notive they added an "a" XD
But when I saw the title for the first time I wondered why it wasn't written.

Oh, hello しあわせの秤 :love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhJ2kx54Na4

I really, really like this song!!

the video doesn't appear. >.<

^ yeah i'm having trouble embedding it...

just click the link now!! :D

thanks^^

the song is really beautiful. But the pv is boring.

long preview for Shiawase no Hakari is nice but yeah like what Aurore said , the PV's nothing special

I hope the other 2 Ready to be a lady & Kaze no Capsule , avex will flash them out a bit

The song's nice.. I notice Chisa's vocals are more soothing and more fitting for ballads. The pv though... is pretty meh. The least they could do was at least do a short plot.

Oricon has written an article on the new pv. Apparently it was very cheap to record this pv. The video cameras were attached to cell phones and was produced in just two days. Apparently this is very cheap compared to typical music videos. I am guessing this is why the video quality is a bit weird.

^ :O

I was wondering why the quality was lacking so much!
Here's the article on Oricon: http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/confidence/79716/

Actually, for cellphone cameras, the quality is really good haha.

But I wonder what the motivation was for filming it this way?!

I think it's a good change of pace. Freedom was a bit tacky for me (minus the dance, that was great) and it's nice to see their versatility. The setting is really beautiful as well!

shiawase no hikari is beautiful! i love this long preview so much. and even though this PV is simple, i really like it. i'd rather watch this than Freedom, anyway, lol. chisa looks beautiful! :heart

i hope the full PV will be uploaded soon.

you know , if it was not mentioned about the Shiawase no Hakari PV being flimed using the camera function from handphones , I wouldn't have known about it :O

as I find the quality quite OK/decent

Maybe the other 2 PVs are more higher in budget which explained this decision to flim Shiawase no Hakari in this manner ? :O

i agree. for a cellphone-filmed PV, it looks so beautiful! i never would have realized if you guys never mentioned it, lol.

Yes it's quite a good quality video from a handphone. I guess they used some ultra-modern cell phones with the best specs. As far as I know Japanese phones are much more advanced than their western counterparts. I wonder if avex will try this with other artists?


Well hopefully this doesn't mean that the other two videos will be low budget too...I really really hope the other two were so expensive that they couldn't afford to do another big pv. I always enjoyed that GND got high budget videos :P

However Freedom seemed to be on a budget too... lately avex doesn't seem to be spending a lot on GND. We'll have to wait and see.

O.o gné? the pv is filmed with a cellphone? Wow the quality is nice. But I would prefer they take an normal camera to film something better.

Anyways I hope that the others pv will be better.

i can't believe it, i want that cellphone!!
The song is calm and i like it

it's & also you can do so many cool things with Japanese handphones somemore

yeah you see their PVs like Guzen no Karuritsu , Jounetsu no Daishou , Seeds of dream , Be your wings

I'm not sure why lately avex has been spending less on GND . I sure hope they wouldn't get dropped X_X

I'm pretty sure it's because they're trying to sell ICONIQ now, so GND's budget has gone down.

They wouldn't drop them, but I don't think we should expect PVs like they used to have--at least all the time.

:( but GND is 100x better than iconiq for me.

I don't think avex usually drops artists... what they usually do is drop their budget and give them sub-standard material to work with. Happened with artists like Ami Suzuki and Hitomi Shimatani who seem to be constantly on a budget and rarely release anything. I sure hope it won't happen with GND :no

It's a shame though... when GND had a good budget they would pass the 30k mark which isn't bad with the current industry...

Shiawase no Hakari is pretty :)

^ right?! XD

I can't wait for the full thing!

Chisa mentioned on Twitter that she is really excited for the next PV! So I hope that means some great things!! :D

CDJapan is selling the CD + DVD of Freedom at 30% off until 20th Sept

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCD-31854

too bad they didn't include a picture of the B2 sized poster . I would love to see it !

^ ah, that's great! I never purchased Freedom because there wasn't really any rush (as there's no sleeve case) haha

But if I see it on sale here, maybe i'll get it sometime :P

OH! And for those who don't know, GND's fanclub only event is being streamed on USTREAM starting at 3 PM Japan time!
You can go to their main site to watch it! It starts in like, 3 hours though haha.

http://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000063939
the "しあわせの秤" PV was shot with an SH-07B (Sharp Aquos Shot SH-07B cellphone, records video in Full HD format) production expense =250,000 Yen.

making of shots can be seen @ the link

^thanks kakumei

Oh nice! I guess I'll order this one with my septembre order :D

I hope there will be posters for their Ready to be a lady single. Cause I really love the cover so, posters would be awesome! xD

so tomorrow is the PV shooting <3
i'm so excited! :D

can't wait to see them...again! :)

oh, and is it ok if I post the new thread now... ? i mean... 498 posts is close enough to 500 xD

yeah of course , go ahead & start the new thread early . I don't mind & I can't wait to see what you have up your sleeves x)