[2023.03.29] Masaki Sato - Ding Dong / Romantic Nante Gara ja nai

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[2023.03.29] Masaki Sato - Ding Dong / Romantic Nante Gara ja nai

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Maa's solo debut! Double A-side with four B-sides across four regular editions, a limited Special Edition sans B-sides, and two limited edition Blu-rays. As Zoe said, the PV for "Ding Dong" drops tomorrow.

They're going all in on this in a way they haven't done with anyone outside of Airi Suzuki -- Karin didn't get B-sides until her second single -- and I love it.

EDIT: I've added the single info below. Based on the composers and arrangers they've employed for this release, I expect this to be a very H!P sounding single.
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Re: [2023.03.29] Masaki Sato - Ding Dong / Romantic Nante Gara ja nai

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Track listings and song info copied from the H!P Wiki. Every edition includes the two A-sides and their instrumentals. To save space, I've only listed those under the Regular Edition A listing.

Tracklist

Regular Edition A
Ding Dong
Romantic Nante Gara ja nai
Ai no Survivor 【Additional Track】(愛のサバイバー; Love Survivor)
Ding Dong (Instrumental)
Romantic Nante Gara ja nai (Instrumental)
Ai no Survivor (Instrumental)

Regular Edition B
Yume ni Dete Konai de yo 【Additional Track】(夢に出てこないでよ; Don't Come Out Of My Dreams)

Regular Edition C
Plastic Generation 【Additional Track】(プラスティック・ジェネレーション)

Regular Edition D
Green Flower 【Additional Track】(グリーン・フラワー)

Limited Editions A-SP
(No additional tracks)

Limited Edition A Blu-ray
Ding Dong (Music Video)
Ding Dong (Dance Edit.)
Ding Dong (Satsuei Making) (撮影メイキング; MV Shoot Making)

Limited Edition B Blu-ray
Romantic Nante Gara ja nai (Music Video)
Romantic Nante Gara ja nai (Room Ver.)
Romantic Nante Gara ja nai (Satsuei Making)

Single Information
Ding Dong
Lyrics: Maeyamada Kenichi
Composition and Arrangement: Tokuda Mitsuki

Romantic Nante Gara ja nai
Lyrics: zopp
Composition: shusui, Anders Dannvik
Arrangement: Anders Dannvik

Ai no Survivor
Lyrics: Nishino Konnyaku
Composition: Jean Luc Ponpon, Hoshibe Sho
Arrangement: Okubo Kaoru

Yume ni Dete Konai de yo
Lyrics: zopp
Composition: shusui, Anders Dannvik
Arrangement: Anders Dannvik

Plastic Generation
Lyrics: Miura Yoshiko
Composition: Hoshibe Sho
Arrangement: Menma

Green Flower
Lyrics: Kodama Ameko
Composition: Hirakawa Tatsuya
Arrangement: Shimizu Teppei
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Re: [2023.03.29] Masaki Sato - Ding Dong / Romantic Nante Gara ja nai

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Thanks for making the thread!

According to Barks, Ding Dong is nu disco and high-energy. Romantic has a swing beat and lots of harmonies.

Er... and apparently Ding Dong contains lots of "sexual" "whispers".
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Re: [2023.03.29] Masaki Sato - Ding Dong / Romantic Nante Gara ja nai

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Certainly not a bad release. Kind of expected more when I heard "high energy", but I do like it.
A bit reminds me of v-u-den if v-u-den had been better, and I mean it as someone who really liked v-u-den.

Kind of weird that non-sexual Masaki goes this route, though. It's not overly sexy but still more than what I'd expected from her.
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It looks like the company decided that the entire budget would go into the music side of this, because this video is damn near Risa Ogata level cheap, lol. The song is okay -- thrift-store Orange Caramel was my reaction -- and I'm hoping that the plan is to whet the appetite of fans with a lesser song, knowing that it'll get buzz simply due to being the first in her triumphant return, then hit them with the good stuff after that.
DonJuan wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2023 3:46 am Kind of weird that non-sexual Masaki goes this route, though. It's not overly sexy but still more than what I'd expected from her.
It's definitely more "adult," but the costumes aren't any more revealing than we're used to seeing her in, save for maybe the halter top, and even that is either covered with a sheer black top or shot in dark red lighting. Are you referring to the lyrics?
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Re: [2023.03.29] Masaki Sato - Ding Dong / Romantic Nante Gara ja nai

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JPope wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2023 8:58 am It's definitely more "adult," but the costumes aren't any more revealing than we're used to seeing her in, save for maybe the halter top, and even that is either covered with a sheer black top or shot in dark red lighting. Are you referring to the lyrics?
More the movements, and the way some lines are delivered. But yeah it's not overly sexy.
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Re: [2023.03.29] Masaki Sato - Ding Dong / Romantic Nante Gara ja nai

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Ooh that was lovely! I hope performing on her own terms is helping and she's feeling better. It'd be great to see her at an H!P concert.
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Re: [2023.03.29] Masaki Sato - Ding Dong / Romantic Nante Gara ja nai

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Every time I see something HP/UF self-described as sexy, I must remind myself that their definition is different from mine :hahaha:
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Re: [2023.03.29] Masaki Sato - Ding Dong / Romantic Nante Gara ja nai

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:ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r:

I mean nothing in H!P is really sexy. They tried with v-u-den and it was more funny than sexy.
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Re: [2023.03.29] Masaki Sato - Ding Dong / Romantic Nante Gara ja nai

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They tried it with Gomaki twice, and let's just say it worked better the second time compared to the first.
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^ I still remember how painful the massively padded bras they put her in looked (unless she had a b00b job?)
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Re: [2023.03.29] Masaki Sato - Ding Dong / Romantic Nante Gara ja nai

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I don't know if it's just Masaki's inflections are similar or what, but I got Maki-vibes from it.
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Re: [2023.03.29] Masaki Sato - Ding Dong / Romantic Nante Gara ja nai

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Purin-chama wrote: Sat Feb 18, 2023 5:12 pm I don't know if it's just Masaki's inflections are similar or what, but I got Maki-vibes from it.
Sato Masaki --> Sato Masaki --> Sato as Maki
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Re: [2023.03.29] Masaki Sato - Ding Dong / Romantic Nante Gara ja nai

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PV for "Romantic Nante Gara ja nai" dropped yesterday.



I really like Maa's voice on this sort of easy pop. Backup dancers are KSS members Honoka Hashida and Hasumi Uemura.
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I don't like the typical identity crisis between the different songs, but Maa does sound great in the second one.
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Re: [2023.03.29] Masaki Sato - Ding Dong / Romantic Nante Gara ja nai

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^Absolutely same. I do like both songs, just the difference between the two is a bit weird. Anyways, good range I think.
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Re: [2023.03.29] Masaki Sato - Ding Dong / Romantic Nante Gara ja nai

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People out here covering Maa's M-line stuff already. And doing a really good job of it.

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