Yamapi to appear on Hey, Hey, Hey

[inala.livejournal.com]

An email was sent to Fan Club members yesterday announcing that Yamapi will be making a solo appearance on Heyx3, the recording will be on Sunday June 27 and giving details to ballot for tickets. There was no mention of NEWS.

There is no official confirmation as yet to what this is about but there are rumours of a new solo single and concert tour.

Comments

[s2anthy.livejournal.com]

haha, you're not bugging me at all. I agree with you, when you say LESS is not WORSE. I think we've seen various concepts and songs through NEWS over the years that show their various charm. I don't know SO much about the other Johnny bands, but I'll take your word (and some others that I've read) for it. It seems that the jimusho really really wants financial gain at the moment, therefore it can't be helped that these other bands are releasing below-par music.

I'm all down with the economical issues that Johnny's Ent. may be having at the moment, and yes NEWS concerts are expensive, I just don't understand the exposure side of things for them, there are easily so many things one can do to promote a band and keeping it cost effective (Free hugs in Shibuya?? LOL). I wonder why they haven't done this from the time of their comeback.

With Yamapi being on Heyx3, I guess I was just hurt to see Yamapi continuing on alone (to what it seems like promoting another single). So naturally him being tied in as the leader of a group, I questioned why he wouldn't also do something about everyone else. However as you pointed out, Johnny's leaders aren't known for their leadership, so there goes my train of thought! In the end, solo work is good, but I guess I prefer them working as a group, rather than individually. I hope that their popularity can be compared to Arashi's one day. But for now,I guess waiting won't hurt.

Oh god, I've written so much today, I would fall over laughing if a sudden annoucement of some kind of NEWS activity were to be announced tomorrow :P
Wishful thinking indeed!~

[javiera.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't get how the jimusho works either. I feel we fans certainly can come up with a lot of good ideas that shouldn't be too hard to accomplish and somehow what we get is just not good enough, like whoever is in charge can't put two and two together. And that can't be right, can it? these people are trained to do their job, can't they be better than a fan at it?

Still, having individual activities, I think, is a lot better for them in the long run and it could be better for the group if they start showing up again regularly. For us fans, of course, is better to have both. I certainly like both, doing individual work and group work just the same. Yamapi has always had solo work alongside NEWS stuff, so I can't blame HIM for the lack of NEWS and I get frustrated when other people do so. He's allowed to take chances if NEWS is being screwed, *specially* if NEWS is being screwed. That he gets more chances than the others has a lot to do with his ability to be good at his job (in the sense that he's good at making contacts), but he's not powerful enough to go asking about NEWS to management and being *heard* if they don't want to hear him, sadly.

Gods, I will be laughing right there with you if an announcement is made in the next few days! it's hard to see so many fans feeling so down, when NEWS is all about being positive and not giving up :P quoting Tegoshi's word of wisdom, we will just have to BELIEVE! XD