J-pop boy band ONE N’ ONLY dropped a brand new single known as ”We’ll rise once more” on March 8, the third within the group’s five-month streak of recent releases at present underway celebrating the group’s fifth anniversary, following “YOU???” and “Get That (PT-BR ver.).” “We’ll rise once more” can be the six-member group’s first single in about 4 years to be launched in bodily type since “Class/My Love” from 2019.
Members EIKU, TETTA, REI, HAYATO, KENSHIN, and NAOYA chatted with Billboard Japan about their March providing and broke down every of the tracks included on the CD single.
“We’ll rise once more” is featured because the theme of the your film Battle King! -We’ll rise again-, set for launch in Japanese theaters March 10.
HAYATO: This music has been round for some time, however once we have been casted as a gaggle in our first starring film, we modified the lyrics to hyperlink it to the movie’s content material.
Because you knew it might be the theme of the group’s first starring film, it should have felt totally different than traditional while you have been recording it.
EIKU: Sure. We recorded the primary verse earlier than we began filming. Then we recorded the second verse after we wrapped, so it helped us put extra feeling into it as a result of we may see how devoted the music was to the movie and it was just like the which means of the lyrics turned clearer.
HAYATO: The scenes got here to thoughts, didn’t it?
EIKU: Yeah. We later re-recorded the primary verse and made it even higher. The character I play, Genjiro, was a delinquent, however he will get into hip-hop dance and finds his dream. There’s this scene the place he expresses his willpower to the artwork college principal and it’s a extremely touching second. I sang my half with that scene in thoughts, so my voice sounds extra emotional.
TETTA: The film depicts a future the place the characters goal for world success, and singing with that feeling is similar as the place we’re at proper now as ONE N’ ONLY, so it was straightforward for me to get into the sensation.
REI: The lyrics are actually linked to the story, so I believe you’ll be able to get pleasure from it twice!
Will followers be capable of try your film outdoors of Japan?
TETTA: Sadly, there’s no plan for worldwide theatrical launch.
HAYATO: However on-demand video streaming providers are in all places now so it’d be good if individuals may catch it.
TETTA: We may do our personal voice-overs.
NAOYA: Come on, there shall be subtitles! [Everyone laughs]
HAYATO: But when it’s dubbed, I’d like to see who does our voices.
NAOYA: The film model of the drama sequence I used to be in known as his – Koi suru tsumori nante nakatta – (“I didn’t intend to fall in love”) is being distributed in Brazil with subtitles. I do know somebody from Brazil who acquired to know ONE N’ ONLY due to that.
KENSHIN: We may do a Portuguese model of the primary rap battle scene.
EIKU: Then we’d must ask everybody who carried out with us to study Portuguese.
KENSHIN: Appears like quite a lot of work, however enjoyable!
“We’ll rise once more” shall be launched on CD together with its digital codecs. How do you’re feeling about that?
NAOYA: The final time was “Class/My Love” in 2019, so it’s been a very long time.
HAYATO: Placing songs out in bodily format is all the time an incredible feeling.
Two different songs are included within the CD single. Inform us about “GIFT.”
HAYATO: It’s a delicate love music, following “My Love.” I believe our SWAGs additionally get pleasure from these sorts of simple J-POP numbers. It has a extra mature worldview than “My Love,” and the refrain incorporates a message in regards to the significance of the extraordinary issues in life. We carried out it at our Christmas live performance final 12 months, so I’m actually wanting ahead to sharing it with everybody.
REI: The lyrics are simple, and the music modifications keys so it’s not boring. We sing the lyrics clearly so the message most likely comes by.
HAYATO: The choreography is cute too.
REI: It’d be nice if individuals may keep in mind the hand-waving on the finish and the cuddling gestures since they’re straightforward to mimic.
NAOYA: The opposite music, “QUEEN,” is fairly daring for us. It’s the sexiest music we’ve ever executed.
HAYATO: It depends upon the way you take a look at it, however it’s steamy! [Laughs]
NAOYA: Little doubt about it. I need individuals to see our efficiency after memorizing the lyrics.
HAYATO: We did a efficiency utilizing a microphone stand as one of many highlights of our tour, and while you hear it with the music’s content material in thoughts, it’s undoubtedly totally different!
REI: The lyrics are exhausting to grasp on first hear, aren’t they?
TETTA: We encourage everybody to learn the lyrics whereas listening to it.
REI: Folks shall be like, “Ooh la la!” [Laughs]
TETTA: It’s a music that we are able to sing as a result of we’re who we’re right this moment.
REI: You don’t discover many songs like this in Japan. Content material like this might be glossed over in different J-pop songs, however right here it’s up entrance, which I believe is a message from our songwriters that they anticipate us to specific these sorts of issues and compete with our musicality.
KENSHIN: The music is finely damaged up for every of our elements, and we attempt new expressions right down to our fingertips, so I’d like individuals to look out for that, too.
I look ahead to seeing these songs reside once more.
EIKU: They’re tracks that may undoubtedly add extra energy to our reside performances, so I hope everybody enjoys these three songs this month.
—This interview by Kana Yoshida first appeared on Billboard Japan
