w-inds. "Ameato" PV

I've finally found the PV of w-inds. latest single "Ameato", this song is simply amazing and beautiful. This song is also the ending theme for the anime Reborn.

There's no dancing which I'm a bit surprise as I thought they would be a least a bit. There were so less so Ryohei and Ryuichi but it didn't bother me that much as my favorite is Keita.
The first I watch it I would probably find it nice and beautiful but if I watch it a couple of times I would probably find it boring.

Sneak peek at w-inds. "Ameato" PV

w-inds. new single "Ameato" will be release on the 23rd April, I think if you're a w-inds. fans you would probably have listen to the radio version of "Ameato" already and the other 2 coupling songs. I totally love "Ameato", but I like the 2 verses more than the chorus part.

And just then I found screen caps of the PV but I don't think the PV is released at least I couldn't find it online anywhere right now.
By looking at these screen caps it doesn't seem like there might be a lot of dancing during in the PV. I just hope w-inds. would bring us something new just like "LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING" and "Beautiful Life" PV.

I'm looking forward to this PV.

w-inds. Live Tour 2007 "Journey"

After waiting for 10 or more days my DVD finally arrived in front of my door, I was so scared that it might be lost since I never more than 10 days.
So here's another DVD to my w-inds. collection. When I was looking at the DVD, the DVD has printed part of the world map on it. I was so happy to see my country's map Australia printed on the DVDs.

A little review or thoughts about this concert.

The concert was great but I can't say it's the best they can do. There wasn't anything special and most of them were no difference with a live they perform at CDTV or Music Fighter.
I really hope they could more than just dancing and singing, I missed Keita playing the piano and Ryuichi playing the guitar.

The stage was smaller this time, in there other concerts they had a long stage that reach the middle of the audience, but this time they didn't do that so it looked like there was more audience.

Opening
The opening they show footages of their past concert on the VTR.

01. THIS IS OUR SHOW
A world globe appeared in the middle of the upper stage and it opens up and w-inds. were already positioned. The three of them wore a red coat and hat and started singing. I must say they love red so much in every single concert they wore red.
After singing the first song they took off the coat and inside they wore a stripe shirt with a vest which I really like.

02. Boogie Woogie 66
Maybe Keita is so used having a hat on that he couldn't change the how his hand position on the hat. But during Boogie Woogie 66 he took the hat off and I spotted that his hand was position on the hat where he didn't even had a hat on.

03. New Paradise
It's been a while since they last sang New Paradise, nothing different or special about it.

04. Another Days
This is another song which they haven't sang for a long time.

Bridge
05. Top Secret
They changed costume into white jacket with black tank top and Keita wore a white hat again, I it's the one he wore during the Hong Kong performance.
I don't find this surprising because they have performed this song quiet a number of times already.

06. Crazy for You
Same goes for Crazy for You, they have performed a couple of times which is no different.

07. Devil
This is the first time I see them performing Devil live I quiet like this song even though I hardly listen to it.
Somehow during this song Keita reminds me of MJ (I guess it's mostly because of the hat). I find the choreography during the chorus was weird, the movement is small and it's only hand movement.
Dance Corner
The first one to come out was Keita wearing a black top tank which was worn inside his white jacket before. The repeat slow motion really takes in effect for this and I really like it. More than dancing I think Keita was just showing off his muscles, but ever since he got more muscular his dancing has more power to it.

Ryuichi's dance was rather normal probably the most wow thing was his back flip which I've seen many times before.

And Ryohei, not so surprise that he's doing breaking. Seen ryohei doing breaking nth times already so it didn't wow me.

The dance corner was rather short. I was hoping for a group dance with some cool choreography but no that was it.

08. Is that you
I forgot that w-inds. has this song when I first heard it because the last time I was listening to their "Journey" album was ages ago.
There's really nothing special about this performance but there's just a feeling where you can't move your eyes somewhere else.
I liked how Keita appeared wearing a black shinny jacket and hat, and all there is was just a mic stand and spotlight. The move he did with the mic stand was rather cool.
Ryohei and Ryuichi appeared half way through the song but they weren't as cool as Keita with the mic stand.



09. Hanamuke

10. Message
I love this song, this song was one of my favorite in the album. The scene of them sitting on the red sofa was nice and Keita sang really good with a lot of emotions.

11. TRIAL

12. Tooikioku

13. LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING

14. It's in the Stars

15. Try your emotion
This song was sing in most concert, it's a great song to get the audience high as it's a song where most people know the lyric.

ENCORE 1
16. Feel the Fate
I don't really like their shirt for this concert, it's too simple. But during Feel the Fate there's a part where Ryuichi and Ryohei sang solo.
The tension was high as everyone sang along with Keita.

17. Kireida

18. Forever Memories

ENCORE 2
19. Shiki
Not Shiki again. I've heard this song sang live a zillion of times. Although the song is nice but I got bored of the performance.

20. Fire Flower
Fire Flower puts everyone so high and once music is played all the fans got out their towel and started swinging it, it's like a must when they perform this song. This song is not great to listen but it's great for performing live.
They were throwing towels to the audience and funny is Keita was wiping his sweat with it and you don't know how much fangirls wanted that towel.
Keita's voice started to crack and it was really bad but he kept on singing until the very last just hope this won't damage his vocal.
Ryuichi started playing the guitar during the end of the song and right at the end because everyone was so high from a distance I see Ryuichi swinging he guitar towards the floor and it became 2 pieces. So I thought "Was that necessary? What a waste!"

w-inds. sense of fashion

I was watching a Taiwanese interview of w-inds. and the host asked w-inds. a question about their sense of fashion. w-inds. replied it's important to have their own sense of style which mean they have control what they like to wear.
They say that they tell the stylist what kind of style they want and the stylist will prepare clothes of the style they want to them.

I've always liked what they wore in the past but recently the style in "Beautiful Life" was not pleasing me. What I'm talking is not the clothing they wear in the PV, it's the clothing they wear during the lives it just bother me every time I watch one of the live.

I have no complaints as for what Ryohei's wearing because his style didn't change much from before. But Keita and Ryuichi, I don't like it.

Keita doesn't look bad with the white shirt and neck tie but the bottom half looks weird. And if you look at the whole body it doesn't look great because it just brings out how skinny and tall he is.

And Ryuichi there's time where I like his style and there's times where I really don't like it.

So is this a problem with me just not liking it or is it the stylist or is it w-inds. themselves?

Please tell me thats not him

This photo of Keita was taken when w-inds. attended to the press conference after their arrival to Taiwan. I have to say this photo is one of the worst photo of Keita, there's no photos which are worst than this photo. Just look at his face, he's face is so skinny and with his new short haircut it makes his face even more skinner and long. He looks really tired and got eye bags and his skin is not in a good condition which he didn't even try putting make-up to make him look better.

How I wish I could back the old w-inds. style when they are still young and look 'young' with nice and beautiful skin. They are just too tired and working too much after tour in Japan now tour in Taiwan, I think they need a break.
Please Keita leave your hair back longer.

w-inds. is at Taiwan!

Once again w-inds. is at Taiwan again, this is their 3rd time opening a concert at Taiwan and it's their 4th time in Taiwan. There was around 400 fans waiting for them at the airport.
They will open this concert twice with the days they in Taiwan, lucky fans will get to hand shake and take photos with w-inds. after the concert.

Before I was reading news and was worried because it said that there's only 6% of the tour tickets were sold I don't understand why. It's the Taiwanese fans sent them letters to come to Taiwan 'again' for a tour and now no body buys their tickets? Well, I don't care much if their tickets are all sold out by now not like I can purchase any of it.

I think w-inds. had enough of Taiwan, they should just come to my country. Then they can relax and get away from crazy fans following them and instead I could be the only one who's following them.

Beautiful Life PV

I know there's too much "Beautiful Life" posts but I can't help it since I just saw the PV.

The PV is not something that I went "wow!" or anything too surprising when I saw it. But it is something that I have never seen from w-inds. and I kind of like it as the PV really suits the song "Beautiful Life", yes the PV is beautifully filmed.

The way this PV is filmed is like an eye of someone and right until the end you will know who's eye is that.
I like how they add little symbols in during the PV such as in the start we see "LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING" PV playing on the LCD TV. Then when w-inds. going into the super market, on glass it has "Beautiful Life" which I think the super market is called "Beautiful Life" as it has a shopping cart on it as well. The last symbol I spotted was when w-inds. at the counter paying the guy's apron has the "W" symbol.
These symbols aren't hard to spot, I spotted them on the first time I watch the PV.

To know who's that eye we've been looking through, it will show us right at the end when w-inds. is taking a group photo and the last shot is the outcome of the group photo.

Overall the PV is nothing too special but I like it and how it's different from their previous PVs.

Otoko no Kosodate theme song

Japanese new drama "Otoko no Kosodate" will be broadcasting on the 26th October 2007 this season. It's not really a drama that I'm interested in but as for the theme song for "Otoko no Kosodate" will be w-inds. new single "Beautiful Life" song.

w-inds. first song appearing as a theme song for a t.v drama which means more promotion for "Beautiful Life" and I hope by having this song as a theme song for a drama boost up the sales.

The song "Beautiful Life" is already been broadcast on the radio and the radio version of the mp3 has been flowing through the net. My comment of the the radio version of "Beautiful Life" is that it's a fast pace and relaxing song.
The first listen didn't really hit into me, but it's catchy once it's been repeated. I also hope the PV would be something new that w-inds. never have done before just like "LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING".

Download Link of the song: http://www.zshare.net/audio/4433921a91f1b9/

w-inds.+Keita new releases

Finally w-inds. is releasing another single, this time their single is called "Beautiful Life". It seem like a mid tempo song something similar to "Shiki" or "Hanamuke". The single will release on the 7th November.

Not only w-inds. will release another single but Keita Tachibana will also release his 3rd single, name title is not confirmed yet but the release date is on the 5th December.

As usual I'll be looking forward to these 2 releases.

edit//
More details of w-inds. new single "Beautiful Life"



w-inds.2007年11月7日発売 NEW SINGLE
｢Beautiful Life｣ABC・テレビ朝日系列 10/26スタート　毎週金曜日21:00～
「オトコの子育て」主題歌テーマソング (主演:高橋克典 、 国仲涼子、小泉孝太郎 他)

M1: Beautiful Life
作詞:shungo./作曲:Samuel Waermo/Mimmi Waermo/Pontus Soderqvist/編曲:Koma2 Kaz
M2:Space Drifter
作詞:shungo./作曲:Philippe-Marc Anquetil/Christopher Lee-Joe/Paul"Charlie"Brown/編曲:Koma2 Kaz
M3:I'm a Man
作詞:shungo./作曲:Hiten Bharadia/Aisling Stephenson/編曲:Koma2 Kaz
M4: Beautiful Life(Instrumental)

CD+DVD盤：PCCA.02553卅￥1,575(税抜価格￥1,500)
※DVD内容(約14分)･･･Jacket Shooting、Making & Interview
通常盤：PCCA.02598卅￥1,260(税抜価格￥1,200)
※PCCA.02598の初回封入特典：ポケットカレンダー１種類

MTV Student Voice Award (w-inds.)

I was excited when I found the performance on the MTV Student Voice Award because it's one of the performance that I so wanting to see.

Even though some people might get sick of Keita wearing those type of hats but I loving it. Because Keita rarely wear hats and these type of hats really suit him which makes him even hotter (to me). But he seem like a bit of MJ which he is covering his eyes with the hat, is that really possible for him to dance on the stage? Because I have a hat like that and I tried putting it really down and it annoys the hell out of me.

While the end of LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING Keita did this "HOT" thing that I was like "o_O~WOW!" I was thinking that the audience was rather calm about it, if it was the HK or Taiwanese fans I guess that are screaming already.

He was sliding his right hand down to his thighs. It might nothing special but I find that hot.

Shirtless Keita

I am just a typical fangirl so my reaction when seeing this photo is the same as other fangirl. Yes, finally a photo on the shirtless Keita Tachibana who constantly taking his shirt off in Tours. Ageha Tour was his first time taking his shirt off and then he did it again during THANKS but during that time there wasn't any photos or videos shown, I only know about it because all the fans who went was talking about and was saying how sexy Keita was. Now I finally get to see it, I must agree, KEITA IS ULTRA SMEXY! His body is really fit and toned compare to his old self and I love this body of his just don't over do it at times.

I can't really imagine Keita shirtless and dancing on stage, it makes me think of the Johnny's members how they always do it whether they are skinny or not.
Lucky Keita only do it on tours and not in magazines because then it makes no difference with the Johnny's members. Keita seriously need to show his fit body more but please only in photo album.

I saw a bit of the Journey Tour from news clips, this year it seem like another great concert. It was also announced that w-inds. will be going to Taiwan this year again to open an tour.
I'm really jealous of the Taiwanese fans, they get to see w-inds. too much! I'm looking forward to the Journey DVD.

They received...

Well all know that w-inds. is very popular in Taiwan and that they have been there for 3 times. From the the photo the Taiwanese fans has sent w-inds. a message and w-inds. have received them.
But that is not what I'm trying to talk about, the thing I want to point out is "look at Keita's hair!" He cut it again? It's so short!
For the first time Keita has short short hair, before people says he has a big forehead but he looks completely fine in this photo.
Before I always wanted Keita to try having short short hair like this because he always have long fringe, now that it really happened. I'm not saying he looks bad, actually I think he looks refreshing and not bad with short hair. He looks young again...

I love Keita no matter what kind of hairstyle he has...

w-inds. New Releases

w－inds. | w-inds.meets JUNON 2
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発売日：2007/10/15
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w－inds. | WORKS vol.6
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好評シリーズ第６弾！今作は２０ｔｈシングル「ブギウギ６６」、２１ｔｈシングル「ハナムケ」、２２ｔｈシングル「ＬＯＶＥ　ＩＳ　ＴＨＥ　ＧＲＥＡＴＥＳＴ　ＴＨＩＮＧ」の各ＣＬＩＰとオフショット＆メイキングを収録！

According to SHINSEIDO's news this was announced and I'm excited about the w-inds.meet Junon 2 book, because I thought reading a whole lot of interview done by Junon was a great thing. I've been missing their interview all the time and it's such a waste to buy every issue with w-inds. in it. So this is a must buy but without a Chinese version I would not purchase it because it will defeat the main purpose as I don't understand Japanese and the whole thing is practically words and photos. Getting a Chinese version of w-inds. stuff is getting harder and harder for me.

2nd on Oricion Ranking

First of all congratulation to w-inds., LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING single was ranked 2nd on Oricon. And hope it will not drop.
w-inds. have returned to Japan after staying at Hong Kong for 3 days. On the 2nd July they participate in Hong Kong return 10th anniversary commemoration Pop Rock Gala event.
It was a outdoor event even though it rained a bit but audience's tension remain high, w-inds. was the only Japanese artist which performed on the day.
w-inds. performance lasted for 20 minutes, they sang a total of 5 songs which include Top Secret, Crazy for you, Boogie Woogie 66, Shiki and LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING.
Not being bias or anything but all media attention was towards this band w-inds.
During Boogie Woogie 66 because the stage was a bit wet from the rain Ryuichi accidentally slipped and fell even though it was embarrass but he got up and kept on performing.
In the whole event w-inds. were enjoying themselves and showed their friendliness towards Hong Kong 3 man group "Grasshopper".

The next day they attended a conference to receive their awards which they have gotten through the years. Altogether it adds up to 10 awards, interview was also made.
They mainly talked about their first impression of Hong Kong, the food and expressed that they would like to held a concert in Hong Kong. The conference only lasted 35 minutes long and w-inds. had to quickly leave to the airport .

w-inds. in Hong Kong

Yesterday 1st July at 2:35pm the famous hip hop boy band w-inds. have finally first arrived to Hong Kong, on the day there were more than 1000 fans waited at the airport. Lately there's no other artist that could beat how much fans have waited for an artist to arrive. There was a big commotion once w-inds. step out of the gate, the three of them were excitedly happy and kept on waving to the fans. While leaving the airport they stepped on to a small stage to let the reporters and fans take photos. Keita who were extremely high started doing a little dance and immediately all the fans screamed after hearing the crazy scream from fans Keita tension was even higher and putting cute poses.
w-inds. left the airport but fans did not just leave, they had 3 vans awaited outside to continue chasing after their idol. w-inds. will be staying in Hong Kong for 48 hours and today 2nd July they will participate in the 擁抱十周年POP ROCK大派對event as a special guest.
On the 4th July their 22nd single "LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING" will be release, they will also held a promotion event.

EDIT// OMG! I finally found the video where Keita does the dorkiest thing! The dance and posing that I have mention above. But I must say it's so cute! He was so random when he started dancing. And I think Keita dyed his hair brown again, it looks way better than before when he was at the Shrek 3 conference.

LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING PV

I didn't know about w-inds. newest PV was released until I came across another blog which the person mention about it. I quickly went to youtube and search for it while the good quality version is downloading at bittorrent.

I seriously wasn't excepting a PV like this, it sure have surprise me and it's something fresh. It's a PV which is filmed so differently from their previous ones.
The whole PV is mainly them running, it looks like the old Nintendo games where it's 2D and the character just runs forward. This does sounds like a boring PV but the most enjoying part is just to see them having fun and relaxing. Like the part where Ryuichi gets left behind because he couldn't keep up with the two and fell down. The chorus part where they start to dance, Ryuichi was not ready and only Ryohei and Keita danced while waiting for Ryuichi to join. And the last part were Ryuichi and Ryohei was down on the floor and Keita was just standing there pointing at them and laughed.

It's a weird PV, they run, jumps around, dance, climbing up the wall, did flips etc. Just looking at them having so much fun just makes you concentrate on the PV and don't want to take a glimpse off the screen.

The only complain I probably have is that it's really hard to get a clear shot of Ryohei and Ryuichi or maybe Keita as well. Most of the shots were small because it's filming them running.

LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING

w-inds. newest single "LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING" will release on the 4th July.
As usual the first press comes with a DVD which contains 10 minutes of Jacket Shooting, Making & Interview.

As Keita is voicing for Shrek 3, this single will also be the theme song for Shrek 3.
While this single is being released they should be in the middle of their "Journey" tour and this single might be sang during one of the tour just like the singles before.

While first time listening to the radio version of "LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING" I didn't like it that much maybe because the key is so high and find that Keita is having difficulties in reaching these high notes. But after repeating it 3 or 4 times the song is starting to get in my head and it's catchy. But I'm really curious how well can Keita sing in lives, especially singing those high notes.

Tracklist
01: LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING
02: SHINING STAR
03: 夏祭り
04: LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING (Instrumental)

Download (Radio Version)
http://www.megaupload.com/cn/?d=VW6RGGND

Paradox PV ~2nd Version~

I'm such a bad fan, I've been a w-inds. fans ever since start of year 2002 up until now. And after 6 years I found out there was actually an unreleased version of Paradox PV, the so call 2nd version. But yeah this version was only released amongst the fan club, so yesterday I mysteriously found it lying around on a Hong Kong w-inds. forum.
At first I thought it was some fan made one and didn't thought it was an official one. So I was so curious and when browsing through that thread. I saw a screen capture of a hand and sparkling sand slipping down.

I was like "I got to see this!" I was so frustrated when I couldn't download it off mofile and tried like a billion of times and thank god it worked.

I got really excited to see this unreleased version of Paradox PV, after watching it I am glad they didn't put this as the official one.
Not that I didn't like this unreleased version, it just feel a bit weird when it was filmed outside because in those years all of w-inds. PVs were filmed in an studio.

So this unreleased version was filmed in the desert, walking and dancing around. Nothing really special.
What I really think is the clothing and filming of the PV is not really up to official PV standard. It seem it could done within a day, while the official one is far more better (that is why it's the official).

As we all know w-inds. are all mens and not boys anymore, so looking at this "new" PV feels really weird. It's like it brings back memories, memories of how cute they used to be even my brother said they were cute while he watched this PV.
At some time a part of me wish w-inds. were little boys like what they used to be but at some times I'm really happy of what they are now since they all grown a lot and looked extremely hot (yes, Keita I'm mostly referring to you. Sorry I'm bias!).

I just they had more of these but I doubt it. It's like the Trial PV, they had 2 version. One is the one with GOAL footage added in and the other one is without it but it had them painting the sky. I just knew that when I brought works vol.5, and they were so cute painting the sky.

Lack of w-inds. & Keitachi

As this blog was first created mainly for w-inds. & AAA but I have realise that I'm lack of w-inds. stuffs here. So that is why I'm posting some magazine scans here.
These are the ones that I found lately which are good quality.
I think Keita gotten a bit buff up lately, but he still looks hot, especially in this Arena 37c magazine here.

Arena 37c - 2007 May (Tachibana Keita)



Oricon Style - 2007 April (w-inds.)




CD Deta - 2007 April (w-inds.)

That is all for now, but will continue to post more later on.