Seishun
Girls (literally means Young Girls) is the second stage setlist performed by
Indonesian-Japanese Idol Group, JKT48 Team KIII, following up the first,
Boku no Taiyo, and a waiting setlist, Pajama Drive when the team was still an
embrio called Gen-2. The regular show schedule spanned more than a year
held at JKT48 theater on March 8th 2014 and officially ended on
March 14th 2015. The recording package of the show has been
released nationwide in DVD format since November 8th 2014 under Hits
Record label.
The
setlist consists of fourteen songs, i.e eleven main songs plus three for the
encore part, cover of their main sister Japanese group, AKB48 Team K who have
performed it earlier from July to November 2006. It was also the setlist for
AKB48 Team B (1st stage), NMB48 Team trainee and NMB48 Team N (2nd
stage). The music, songs and coreography performed by all teams were the same except for JKT48, the lyrics were translated into Indonesian.
In
total there were twenty one members of Team KIII when the schedule started.
Sixteen members of the Team acted as regular performers while
the rest performed sometimes as substitutes in case of vacancy or
rotation.
First
Day Performance (Shonichi)
Team KIII officially performed the setlist for the first time (shonichi) on
March 8th, 2014. It was started with Member Cindy Yuvia, as kageana(1) or backstage announcer. The show performed by sixteen KIII members. They were Alicia
Chanzia, Cindy Yuvia, Della Delila,
Dwi Putri Bonita, Jennifer
Hanna, Lidya Maulida Djuhandar, Nadila Cindi Wantari, Natalia,
Noella Sisterina, Ratu Vienny Fitrilya, Riskha Fairunissa, Rona
Anggreani, Shinta Naomi, Sinka Juliani,
Thalia,
Viviyona Apriani(2).
Just like other setlist, Seishun Girls opened by an overture, which was musically predictable, followed by three opening songs, four units, and another four songs before they completed with the rest three of the encore. Within the show, there were 'MC' sessions, where members shared their feeling about performing new setlist for the first time as well as other topics too.
The regular performing members on
schedule were supposed to be those who appeared on shonichi. But under management discretion, starting on May 19th
2014 four second tier members were then assigned: Fakhriyani Shafariyanti,
Novinta Dhini Soetopo, Priscillia Sari Dewi and Saktia Oktapyani. KIII also
welcomed a new transferred member from AKB48, Rina Chikano who then started
performing on June 16th 2014. The decision perhaps disposed an
uncomfortable shift for the team, especially for members pulled back to reserve such as Lidya Maulida Djuhandar and Noella Sisterina (both fixed to US
Blue Rose), and Viviyona Apriyani who was fixed to bringing up US Kinjirareta
Futari.
Musical Style and Theme (in comparison to Boku no Taiyo and Pajama Drive)
Basically,
the entire music of the setlist can be coined as J-Pop, the same term that may
also apply to both Pajama Drive and Boku no Taiyo. But apart from its two
predecessors, Seishun Girls in details offers its audience multiple music
genres and dancing styles. We can hear Jazz slightly in ‘Kimi ga Hoshi ni Naru
Made’ and clearly in ‘Hizuke Henkousen’, Rock in ‘Blue Rose’, Bubblegum Rock in
‘Korogaru Ishi ni Nare’, and Latin Pop in ‘Fushidara na Natsu’, ‘Don’t Disturb’
and ‘Cinderella wa Damasarenai’. There are also the more usual pop dance such
as ‘Seishun Girls’, ‘Beach Sandal’ and ‘Virgin Love’ and pop ballad
‘Kinjirareta Futari’. As surprisingly new element from their previous stage
performance, the team introduced their audience with Hawaian Salsa and Latin
Flamenco along with any routines that they usually had been doing so far. Those
make Seishun Girls have better performing techniques and a more powerful and mature follow-up of Pajama Drive and Boku no Taiyo.
Seishun Girls as a setlist has structure more leaning to Pajama Drive than Boku
no Taiyo. Both seems to have three identical ‘warming-up’ songs before kicking
off a more serious delivery and mature numbers in the middle. ‘Futari Nori no
Jitensha, the fourth song in Pajama Drive actually sounds ‘heating up’ the
setlist and so does ‘Blue Rose’ in Seishun Girls, which is also the fourth. It can also be heard that ‘Koro Garu Ishi ni Nare’ has
an identical sound and the same track position as ‘Suifu wa Arashi ni Yume wo
Miru’ in Pajama Drive. Both setlists also present smoother and more comfortable
song sequences than Boku no Taiyo which may be heard lack of lower beat numbers
needed in the middle.
Though
the music is more diverse than ever, Seishun Girls’ theme is much like Boku no
Taiyo’s, telling about teenage ‘ganbatte’ spirit, young romance (mostly the
love that isn't mutual), and self struggle in achieving goals and dreams
wrapped in bubblegum features such as summer, sunshiny beach, fireworks and
rainfall while keeping the image of cute, friendly and sweet idolized young
girls all along the show. Audience may consider this a routine or more than
that, one of the group uniqueness.
Recording
Release
The
release package of the setlist came out on November 8th 2014. The
November release went public side by side another setlist ‘Dareka no Tame ni’ (What Can I
Do For Someone?), performed by their senior Team J. The package is wrapped in
chrome yellow cover disc case. Available inside, two discs, a folded gloss paper of the
same colour presenting members’ pictures (only the chosen sixteen of them) each in
different Seishun Girls costume, songs’ credit and lyrics and a photo shot card that will allow fans to take picture with one of the members.
The
first disc (DVD) comprises live shoots taken carefully from various angles over the
stage during the performance. Fans chant and noise at the theater of course can
still be heard. The next video presents ‘behind the stage’ session, where the
fourteen performing members gathered around in front of staging camera sharing
their performing experience and running down the setlist track by track. The
other two, Novinta and Chikano seem to have been interviewed in another room (or session). The second disc (CD) is Seishun Girls in audio format. This is the recording sound only which is clear from any theater noise.
Behind the session covered interesting experience of members in making the show into shape such as Della Delila who was late to take part in Ame no Doubutsuen as she was trying to find her mike on the backstage. Failed to find it there, she instantly dared to jump out and stopped the show by shouting 'cut' and then asked Acha if she had taken her mike. The unit song take actually really had to stop for her.
The
release is intended especially for fans who are unable to watch the setlist
lively in JKT48 theater or for casual listeners who are interested in the group
and in general, to let the show be memorable. It is technically an album, a
live album.
Key
member Viviyona Apriani unfortunately didn’t appear on this DVD, that some fans
thought was too bad.
Last
Day Performance (Senshuraku)
Amidst
the ‘Kaze wa Fuiteru’-single handshake festival held on March 1st 2015,
it was announced that Team KIII would perform Seishun Girls for the last time (senshuraku) on March 14th 2015
and would later move on to new regular stage setlist ‘Saishuu Bell ga Naru’. Some
members intentionally leaked the new incoming setlist on their Google+ account
(such as Hanna and Vienny) that they would perform it soon but then in fact, Saishuu’s first regular performance was postponed until August 1st 2015, four months later.
The
shonichi line-up again appeared
onstage, except Noella Sisterina, replaced by Rina Chikano. The farewell show
was preceded by strong gimmick, the so called ‘senshuraku week’ that lasted from March 10th to 14th 2015. Anyone who could
collect souvenirs from members (given in ‘hi touch’ session) from three
separate show within the week (March 10th,12th, & 14th)
would be included in ‘lucky dip’ lottery of winning Seishun Girls Senshuraku
special souvenir. The prize, which was a kind of memory tree handmade by KIII
members was finally won by JKT48 fans from Japan, Sato Mamoru.
Seishun
Girls finale was held twice on that last day. Both were gained nice round applause. One
spectator reported: “I attended show 2 that day. It was very overcrowded…. The
show was glorius and more clatter than usual. I saw some members while in MC session shed their
tears recalling the hardship and togetherness of bringing up the setlist"(3)
The
senshuraku was also buzzed in K3poinOshi serials (hosted by Viviyona and Lidya Maulida), #K3nangan Seishun Girls and
#K3poinHSFestival, where KIII members promoted the lucky dip lottery and media hastag. The
hastag #K3nanganSeishunGirls became trending topics on twitter media the
following days.
While
in mind KIII had hopeful look to Saishuu Bell ga Naru, management decided to
hold them back from the new setlist as to giving time for evaluating the team
performance.
‘In
Between’ Live Concert – Don’t Look Back (June 13th 2015)
There
to excuse the delay was a vague statement that the team’s capability had not
yet developed enough for further progress, for instance to an immediate new
setlist. Yet, from fans’ point of view who had seen many times SG performance, it
seemed to be a less making sense premise considering the Team’s success in
performing very well hundred times of the delicate Seishun Girls for a complete
one year and in the meantime then, also doing such professional act like 'Don't
Look Back' live concert within a rest period for the team (if they were not to
proceed further a little while). After all, no fans would turn down any new
setlist. So why hesitate?
The
live concert itself, held on June 13th 2015 at Kelapa Gading Sports
Mall, Jakarta was an instant proof that KIII had been standing intact on their ground
with full readiness to bear whatever management pushed onto them. It went into
another successful one. The event perhaps had nothing to do with any doubt what
team KIII was capable of. It could be just one way for management to seize moment
and turn it into a handful of profit by, once again, a gimmick that led fans
back to get involve in exhaustive competition of winning the promised CD
album to be released for any JKT48 team whose tickets were first sold out.
It
was a bad timing event, if management aimed to gain as much profit as they
thought they could (yet it was not a bad KIII concert). Considering the
Sounsekyo was just few weeks before, fans perhaps had less money to let go.
They might feel would have been squeezed, if they had to bite the gimmick for
more. And this probably the cause, although the event was not completely
without commercial gain, tickets weren’t sold out and no team won the prize.
The critical question is this. If all teams' tickets were sold out, which would mean fans believed all members could deliver them the best show, would it be fair and logical enough to give one team an album release opportunity only based on how fast the tickets were sold? What if other team had better singing ability but their tickets were sold slower?
Management
should have been wiser to release on purpose an album for the mere sake of members’ development
instead of making it a gimmick only to seek profit out of fans’ drying pocket.
It might draw a conclusive concern, from people, if aware of that, that
Management had no longer put member’s development at the first place in their entire
operation.
Waiting Setlist – Boku no Taiyo Revival
The
waiting period from March to July then saw the team's retreat to Boku no Taiyo and
Pajama Drive performance again. The revival shows somehow were still welcomed
by fans in enthusiasm, despite the real thing that fans were no longer able to
see the same complete KIII like more than one year before when Octi Sevpin and
Noella Sisterina were both still members of the group.
Boku
no Taiyo was not a bad setlist. It did shape the image of KIII that fans liked
to see or expect. While it tipped a little bit lower than Renai Kinshi Jourei,
that many would prefer, its music and stage performance was so different that
KIII were then easily seen as a very unique team besides their
elder Team J. For KIII having a long beginning to level up as juniors, who but
they could do it best?
Pajama
Drive can be seen as a training ground for every member and team in the group.
No team proceeds to another setlist except doing this stuff first.
Song
List
1. Seishun Girls (Young Girls)
2. Beach Sandals
3. Kimi ga Hoshi ni Naru Made (Till You Become
A Star)
4. Blue Rose
5.
Kinjirareta Futari (The Forbidden Lovers)
6. Ame no Doubutsuen (A Squall At The Zoo)
7. Fushidara na Natsu (Loose Summer)
8. Don't Disturb
9. Virgin Love
10. Hizuke Henkousen
11. Boku no Uchiage Hanabi (My Launching
Fireworks)
12. Yakusoku Yo (Let's Promise)
13. Korogaru Ishi ni Naru (Be A Twirling Stone)
14. Cinderella wa Damasarenai (Cinderella Won't
Be Deceived)
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Seishun Girls (Young Girls) –
lyrics:
Yasushi Akimoto, composer: Masaru Eyaki, arr: Funta
The
setlist begins with the tittle song, Seishun Girls. It starts with a short
acapella singing which, as listeners may hear, seems like Boku no Taiyo's
opening Dreamin' Girls and then breaks into more lively, energetic verse-chorus
delivery, interluded by in-between rap shouts. Sounds light and playful, as
some first few numbers of Pajama Drive, the song seems really fit for the
opening. It’s very cheerful and inviting, a sort of warming the audience to get
ready for plenty other cheers coming next in the show.
The
lyrics of Seishun Girls is a good example of typical bubblegum pop song which
clearly represents image of purity, cuteness, youth & happiness the Japanese
people or big fans may expect to see in idol groups. It suggests listeners to
keep the spirit of being young and easygoing through life. Though for those who
are familiar with the group's musical style the song may sound not so
distinctive, it is apparently a good welcome and really has the energy.
In
DVD version the song ends with member Natalia proceeds as the center.
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Beach Sandal -
lyrics: Yasushi Akimoto, composer &
arr: Tetsuya Ouchi
The
next following song is 'Beach Sandal'. It tells a fancy of being in the sandy
beach at summer time and the feeling of love that happens. Just another
bubblegum song, performed agilely within a clear guitar play, keyboard sound
mix, and constant drum fill. The beat has less dance flavor than Seishun Girls,
more bringing up a light rock sound that goes along with the electric guitar
intro. It is a little shift from the first, but seems to have the same mood and
sound or technically may be recorded at the same session, if it is true.
The
dance sequence looks very perfect, eye-catching and really synchronized with
the team’s singalong voice. The interesting so called 'Mexican wave' at 03:40
can be matched to a stamping wave made in Boku no Taiyo's Run Run Run at
03:38. Beach Sandal's wave looks better, perhaps because it is easier.
A
summer setting of the song makes it fit with 'Manatsu No Sounds Good', if there
is any idea to couple it in one other release. It also flashes Pajama Drive
repertoire’s sound back a little bit.
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Kimi ga Hoshi ni Naru Made (Till You Become A Star) -
lyrics: Yasushi Akimoto, composer:Yo
Yamazaki, arr: Tomonori Taguchi, Harou Inatome
Kimi
ga Hoshi ni Naru Made is a dance number. The music is a mix sound of the first
two songs, laying on the dance beat and electric guitar rhythm. With careful
listening, we can taste a combination of pop, rock and jazz especially in the
interlude (starts at 02:53) and its background fill of late ’70s brass sound
and percussion. Musician Tomonori Taguchi (or well known as Towa) ex-bassist of
band Aucifer with Harou Inatome did the arrangement. The duo also arranged ‘Aitakatta’,
‘Temodemo no Namida’ (of Pajama Drive)
and the semi rock number ‘Itoshisa no Defense’ and ‘Sonna Konna Wake De’ (both of Boku no Taiyo).
The
dance seems more relaxing than Beach Sandal or Seishun Girls, only ranging from
hand moving and foot stamping to switching-row repositions. This song tells us
not to give up until we reach our dream, a central theme this group usually
brings up. Another verse-chorus song, it is the third one that members wear the
same seifuku and perform sixteen all out.
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Blue Rose -
lyrics: Yasushi Akimoto, composer: Koji
Ueda, arr: Tetsuyo Ouchi
Coming
as the fourth, the most rocking number in this setlist, Blue Rose. An uptempo
song that for casual listeners may be heard a little surprising as female group
like JKT48 is close patron of sweet melodious pop song. Dark, masculine, and
mature, Blue Rose is the first unit song, performed by only four chosen members
in sort of 'Lay Down' like singing and 'banging' style.
The
song alone is just good enough, leaving the agile dance synch to be less
necessary. It is not a dance song after all. A fast stand-mike kicking at 03:12
during the heavy rock guitar interlude may hook up, but only if the four
dancers do that at the same instant, which is actually hard to execute. We can
say the same to Lay Down (of Boku no Taiyo), which apparently has a clear rock
arrangement. Only singing it with a proper vocal strength behind standing mike
may be just enough for standing claps. JKT48 doesn’t
have many pure rock songs on stack. Yet surprise is always rare, isn’t it?
As
some members say, the song is about a person dealing with an unsuccessful love
and how she tries to move on from it. The blue rose that in fact doesn't exist
is an allusion for the impossible love.
In
the DVD version this unit is performed by Shinta Naomi, Rona Anggreani, Novinta
Dini, and Rina Chikano, but in case of vacancy or rotation the role was shifted to available members at rest such as Lidya
Maulida, Viviyona Apriani and Natalia (Actually, the initial line up are Lidya,
Rona, Naomi and Noella). Member Jennifer Hanna was also ever rotated to this
unit.
Overseas
transferred member from Japanese AKB48, Rina Chikano recalled her precious
memory of the song when she & Akimoto Sayaka performed it in Tokyo Dome,
August 22nd 2013. At the show Sayaka announced her graduation from the group
that for Chikano (and other senbatsu) would be the last performance with her.
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Kinjirareta Futari (The Forbidden Lovers) -
lyrics: Yasushi Akimoto, composer: Mihoko
Ito, arr: Jun Kageie
Contrary
to Blue Rose, the introvert Kinjirareta Futari is a slow pianic rhythm and
moody song, performed by even less members. The two performers, keeping
distance from each other sing as if they were expressing the feeling of lonely
and being apart (the black and white costumes may highlight that sense) but at
the end getting in touch together in some kind of way that for casual audience
or anyone can be interpreted as the two girls involving in an odd same sex
relationship.
In
the DVD behind the scene session, member of this unit, Ratu Vienny Fitrilya
gives an alternate opinion of the song, saying that it is not merely about
lesbian love affair, a kind of relationship that should safely be discontinued
but can also refer to everything which may stand in the way between any real
mutual love. It is open to any other interpretation, she adds.
Along the setlist period, fans seemed not too disturbed about that lesbian thing. But one casual spectator had wrote negative feedback on his blog concluding that the song had suggested lesbian relationship.
In Japan, where the song should have been interpreted in its most proper sense and where AKB48 has been an easy target for any critics due to its huge popularity, the song lyrical story didn't draw a much heated controversy, though it was written that one fans of HKT48, another sister group, modestly had concern about the lyrics(4). Yet the show still went on, or had to go on.
Controversy might have been considered a common 'spicy interlude' in pop biz. Kinjirareta Futari was not the one and only case. Japanese people and media also once critized 'Seifuku ga Jama o Suru' (appeared in Dareka no Tame ni) as suggesting 'enjo kosai', a practice of compensating date that is now against the law in Japan. But there is always a time when we should draw a clear line and not cross it over. 'Oshibe to Meshibe to Yoru no Chouchou' (of AKB48's Saishuu Bell ga Naru) where lesbian kissing is apparently showed onstage without any shame or second thought, has gone too far from what we should define as 'a healthy entertainment'. It is completely dumb and no use. Of course, JKT48 version didn't do too far like that.
The
original release recorded the duo Vienny and Thalia whose position was initially
fixed to Viviyona. Vienny (black) may be the sole member who really fits to
perform this unit, considering her character and her soft low tone singing
voice while Viviyona (white) who can turn her eyes into a sad blank stare also
may do. When asked by fans (for her Vlog QA) which some of her favourite
performing costume were, Viviyona said Kinjirareta costume was one of them.(5)
At
this point of the show, Kinjirareta seems to be a cooling down number,
delivering the audience an easy listening song after the upbeat ones in order
to whet the flavours of the setlist. And at this point too, the nice Seishun
Girls has just a very good ballad. The monologue line ‘tak bisa dengan yang
lain’, a cut of the lyrics, has become most remembered cheer igniting catch
phrase among fans, and may be among members too.
Leaving only the song theme again telling about the impossible love, Kinjirareta is Blue Rose in slow mode and hence, is a very good continuation.
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Ame no Doubutsuen (A Squall At The Zoo) -
lyric: Yasushi Akimoto, composer: Yusuke
Tajima, arr: Tetsuya Fujita
The
nice, funny and cute JKT48 is back with the sweetest number, Ame no Doubutsuen,
which may remind us of the same rainfall romance, 'Squall no Aida ni' (of Renai
Kinshi Jourei). It is a unit of eight members in furry zoo animal costumes
performing light footsteps and runaround dance. The song starts in one verse
refrain (all the next three have two), which may be heard too long just like
'Yuuhi wo Miteiruka', and continues with the standard verse-chorus structured
pop singing. As fine as Yuuhi Wo Miteiruka, it sounds sweeter and more cheerful
Ame
no Doubutsuen is one of Seishun Girls' songs that has more common and sensible pop
sound than many others which seem to never move on far from Heavy Rotation’s
J-Pop sound and style. Those who are fans may hear it a return to some playful
Pajama Drive’s cut but for larger pop listeners who are not too keen on
J-Pop, the song may punch into their interest. The easy listening single Yuuhi
wo Miteiruka may also satisfy that well (or 'Kaze wa Fuiteru'). But Ame no
Doubutsuen somehow may not be suitable to stand alone as a single. It's just
its right place in Seishun Girls.
On
shonichi, the center role is performed by Cindy Yuvia as grey elephant
(sometimes passed to Nadila Cindy Wantari as the schedule going on). Others are
Alicia Chanzia (red chimp), Sinka Juliani (black panda), Della Delila (brown
camel), Natalia (dotted giraffe), Riskha Fairunissa (brown lion), Jennifer
Hanna (blue penguin), and Thalia (stripy zebra). Member Lidya Maulida Djuhandar
is also said to have ever performed this unit too as brown lion.
Some
members really appeared to be suitable for this unit such as Hanna, Sinka,
Acha, Della, Riskha and of course, Yuvia. Some didn’t, such as Natalia, Thalia
and replaced member Lidya. They were better fixed to other unit than this
one.
Though
Lidya was a spared member and only onstage now and then, she
seemed having a more relax feeling for the unit than Hanna, who was actually
the senbatsu. Hanna confessed she firstly had no idea how to put her style into
some sort of cute funny thing like penguin in the zoo. She even seemed to be
inconfident of her body size and thought she was too big to be cute. And she
kept asking her fans back in the media about how well she performed it. Having
just a replacing role might bring less burdened feeling. Despite revealing her
disappointment of being reserved, Lidya positively said it was then a very
chance to learn a lot of new ‘blockings’.(6) That was a good way to say it.
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Fushidara na Natsu (A Loose Summer) -
lyrics: Yasushi Akimoto, composer: Koji
Ueda, arr: Kiyoto Konda
Fushidara
na Natsu brings back the audience to summer romance but in 'Hawaian' air.
Surely it goes very well with Salsa dance. It's a Latin pop. Another
distinctive feature that the group can come up with considering its delicacy that
requires profound training. In fact, it was the most difficult number of the
setlist because, as members shared in 'behind the scene' session, it needed
multiple performing takes to bring the 'Fushidara' into its best shape. It also
proves the wide variety of genres that Japanese pop song can cover.
The lyrics
seems difficult to understand but the swinging melody of the song may be enough
to satisfy listeners.
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Don't Disturb -
lyrics: Yasushi Akimoto, composer: Masaru
Eyaki, arr: Tetsuya Fujita
A
good pair for Fushidara na Natsu, this one still sounds '"Hawai" but
slower. Members still wears the same costume but now with weaker moves to show the
calm feeling of self-contented having been with the loved one. An aquatic sound
behind the acoustic guitar cover help shaping the shaded feel. The second
ballad that really fits for them and again squares up the overall show.
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Virgin Love -
lyrics: Yasushi Akimoto, composer &
arr: Yoshimasa Inoue
This
song returns to the group's regular delivery, fast paced dance and fast singing
style. The fast tempo and multiple melodic bends make the song seem difficult
to follow. The song’s arranger is Yoshimasa Inoue, one of prolific Japanese pop
musician. He was formerly a jazz musician but later with Yasushi Akimoto,
writing and arranging many AKB48's most famous songs, such as ‘River’, ‘Uza’,
‘Escape’, ‘Viva Hurricane’ and ‘Beginner’.
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Hizuke Henkousen -
lyrics: Yasushi Akimoto, composer:
Michihiko Ohta, arr: Jun Kageie
Hizuke
Henkousen has more jazz features than Kimi ga Hoshi ni Naru Made. It is clearly
a jazz number. The song theme is like the quiet Sakura No Shiori, about
believing that tomorrow will come with a lot of better things and all should
run to it. Yet, it is a little bit hard
to say what the tittle means in English.
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Boku no Uchiage Hanabi (My Launching Fireworks) -
lyrics: Yasushi Akimoto, composer: Kana
Uesugi, arr:Ryuichi Katsumata
Boku
no Uchiage Hanabi is another unique song in this setlist. Members on stage wear
Japanese traditional outfits singing more like a standing choir unit than their
usual hectic style. It's a downbeat track and has minimum dance, and in some
way may resemble the sound of ‘Sakura no Hanabiratachi’. Beginning with a
grande pianic intro, this number may fit for an ending song if the show stops
here and won't go on into the encore tracks.
It
is interesting to know that 'Yukata' members wear while performing this song is
a type of Japanese traditional kimono people usually wear in summer or in an
occasion like fireworks matsuri (that is also held in summer time).
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Seishun
Girls leaves the next three songs as the encore part. All songs musically are
of good ones and very well-performed. But the song sequence seems a little bit
misplaced (to me). To put Cinderella wa Damasarenai as the last song makes the
show heard not being ended comfortably and make it seem like unnecessary song.
It may be suitable to put it as the first encore or we just have enough with
only two, Yakusoku Yo and Korogaru Ishi ni Nare. Of course I won't agree if it
is kept out of the setlist. It is interesting to check out their tapping
flamenco dance so we need such that distinctive song from them.
The setlist encore has turned to be somewhat symbolic in every setlist. After finishing the whole main songs, members are given a pause for minutes back at the stage to take rest while waiting chant from fans, yelling 'ankor' three times. It is not just a random yell but it feeds back the message to performing members that they just brought up a good show and should go on to the encore. Without the yelling, the situation would mean that fans feel members just did a bad show and hence they are in no need to watch the encore. Pretty weird but interesting to know.
Logically, everyone wouldn't hesitate to yell, for who would go home in hurry after spending 100k for the show?
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Yakusoku Yo (Let's Promise!) -
lyrics: Yasushi Akimoto, composer: Suzuki
Daichi Hideyuki, arr: Kiyoto Konda
A
farewell song, Yakusoku Yo nevertheless is a cheerful goodbye with a promise
not to leave all good
things behind. In short, it says 'don't be sad when saying goodbye'. A pop rock
song that listeners may find usual, but not tedious and stands out as one of
the group's best. The music is technically good, having the same clear and
fluent sound as in Beach Sandal (and Himawari of Boku no Taiyo).
A
good ending song, isn't it?
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Korogaru Ishi ni Nare (Be A Twirling Stone) -
lyrics: Yasushi Akimoto, composer: Yo
Yamazaki, arr: Funta
The
last rocking number in the setlist. The song is just another Suifu wa Arashi ni
Yume wo Miru (of Pajama Drive), sharing the same musical style and song theme.
It is about keeping yourself determined and having an enthusiastic mood. It
really belongs to Team KIII.
Korogaru
Ishi ni Nare appears in the mini album 'Flying Get' released in 2014 during the
voting time of annual general election for 6th Single's senbatsu team, that came out to be 'Gingham Check'.
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Cinderella wa Damasarenai (Cinderella Will Not Be Deceived) -
lyrics: Yasushi Akimoto, composer &
arr: Yoshimasa Inoue
Completing
the show, the team gives the audience a much different performance they haven't
seen in any setlist before. Cinderella Wa Damasarenai which literally means
Cinderella Will Not Be Deceived. It entirely sounds Spanish where members
perform it in Flamenco dance code (moves, gestures and costumes). The song
lyrics brings out the image of a Cinderella but with more confident and higher
profile personality than the fairy tale, that she won’t be deceived by fake
princes and better off turning them down.
The
'Ole' shout is a signature of this song, one way to hook up the performance,
the other way to make audience keep the song in mind. Cinderella wa Damarasenai
is also arranged by Yoshimasa Inoue, once again proving that he is a very
talented Japanese pop musician.
Again
in this ending, Natalia serves as the first center (and also the annoucer)
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DVD
Participating Members
JKT48
Team K III
(1)
Alicia Chanzia
(2)
Cindy Yuvia
(3)
Della Delila
(4)
Dwi Putri Bonita
(5)
Jennifer Hanna
(6)
Nadila Cindi Wantari
(7)
Natalia
(8)
Novinta Dhini
(9)
Ratu Vienny Fitrilya
(10)
Rina Chikano
(11)
Riskha Fairunissa
(12)
Rona Anggreani
(13)
Saktia Oktapyani
(14)
Shinta Naomi
(15)
Sinka Juliani
(16)
Thalia
Members not appeared in DVD
(1)
Fahriyani Shafariyanti
(2)
Lidya Maulida Djuhandar
(3)
Noella Sisterina
(4)
Priscillia Sari Dewi
(5)
Viviyona Apriani
Until
the end of August 2015, Team KIII has eighteen active members. Per August 1,
Shinta Naomi was reshuffled to Team J, leaving the captain role to Devi Kinal
Putri who was former Team J captain. Three KIII members were considered
graduated, Noella Sisterina (Feb 27), Novinta Dhini (August 16), and Thalia
(August 26).
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Footnotes:
(1) http://helminaomissions48.blogspot.co.id/2014/03/shonichi-seishun-girls-gadis-gadis.html
Author name is unknown.
(2) http://stage48.net/wiki/index.php/Team_KIII_2nd_Stage
A detail information about performing members is provided here including links to each of them. see also https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_K_2nd_Stage_"Seishun_Girls"
Author name is not listed.
(3) http://www.gwigwi.com/senshuraku-show-seishun-girls-jkt48-tim-kiii-9139/
A short but informative article written by Fachrul Rachlian, March
16th 2015 who attended the team second senshuraku show. Photo of Lucky Dip prize is shown on the article.
(4) http://fan48backup.blogspot.co.id/2014/04/arti-lagu-kinjirareta-futari.html
Author name perhaps, is -lee-
(5) https://plus.google.com/explore/VionaVlog
Viviyona Apriani's short video uploaded on G+ account. This appears to be her personal video serials without Lidya where she answered her fans' questions both visually and audibly. For now, there are five records. Fans can use the tag #VionaVlog to drop questions, challenge her to do something, or just share things. Answer about her fav performing costume appeared in her second vlog released on Youtube.
Lidya Maulida Djuhandar wrote on G+ account concerning her 300 performing record.