The growth trough the tour

 

- Yesterday was the MV shooting, right?

 

Haruna Bad Chiiiin: Yes. We filmed in a place with a whole lot of grass.

 

Tsukino Usagi: Grasp?

 

Kamiya Saki: Grass (laughs)

 

Haruna: We filmed with CAN'T STOP playing in big volume, it was magnificent. There were also cliffs around……

 

Saki: It was like a quarry, a place that could be used as special effects. We had a set prepared in the open area, there were also a lot of staffs we were surprised.

 

Tsukino: This time the direction was made by Tanabe Hidenobu-san who was also responsible for BiSH's “Life is beautiful” and “Promise the start”. Having the song played at a big place like a prairie, it became a calm feeling, I thought “Waa, it really fits”.

 

Saki: When the sun was setting, in a place almost as high as the sun's line.

 

- You were there for quite a long time.

 

Tsukino: From the morning until it got dark. Because we just finished filming we haven't seen it yet but, I believe it'll turn out to be a wonderful MV.

 

- You are being busy but, having joined only a few months ago how is your mental state now?

 

Tsukino: I got quite used to it. Even after the debut live in April, for a while I could only thing it was unusual to be in GANG PARADE. But, looking from outside this turns out to be the normal, right?

 

- People watching got used to it faster.

 

Tsukino: Exactly. Practicing there were times I would think “Aa, I am here” (laughs). Lately finally in a good meaning GANG PARADE is coming the usual within myself.

 

Haruna: Lately it's becoming normal to be in GANG PARADE, but, I'm doing things slightly scared that it'll become normal.

 

- Scary?

 

Haruna: Because this is not obvious. But, doing things that aren't obvious, it becomes my own confidence, yes.

 

- How does Saki-san sees it?

 

Saki: Even talking to everyone normally, in the beginning there were times the talk would get exciting with only 7 of us but, lately it's not like that? There are things we realize because the 2 of them say their opinions, in the real meaning, including the tour, we're being able to build “9 members”.

 

- The tour is a big thing. After the first one man Haruna-san talked about “We'll do this same thing many times…..”.

 

Saki: Ahahahaha (laughs)

 

Haruna: Because it's a tour we'll perform the same setlist several times but, each and every stage I'm able to perform the songs with a different feeling, if I think about that I believe I changed since month ago.

 

Tsukino: The Okinawa stage was the first one man since the debut live. Between that there was the only boys and only girls lives but, because it was a simple one man since April, I thought that as expected the space only with people who came to see us is different. Now I perform conscious “It would be really nice if everyone can have fun”, so believe I evolved.

 

- To Saki-san it's a tour with GANPARE after over a year.

 

Saki: Yes. Zepp DiverCity was the first live after I returned, it was also the debut live of the 9 members lineup, I believe we all faced the days with a good type of nervousness but, since then the journey until Okinawa part of me was floating. Like I still probing the atmosphere, I ended up facing the tour without properly working out the aspect of “How will the 9 of us go”, actually we started to discuss a lot of things after Okinawa.

 

- After the first day ended.

 

Saki: That's it. We were late but, there we properly understood the situation of the 9 of us, because I think we'll be able to clearly work on each and every issue, I believe we'll make a very tour like tour.

 

- What were the points you discussed after the first day?

 

Saki: Hmm, things what everyone was thinking or sharing each other's casual aspects, also it's a tour we have to take to Zepp Tokyo with more people, thinking about what's ahead for GANG PARADE, I believe it's important to how make more people like us. Since Watanabe (Junnosuke: WACK representative)-san gave us the advice to “think more about the audience”, not only about ourselves, how to be aware of people watching is one of the challenges. After all depending on this consciousness the good and bad of the lives changes.

 

Tsukino: I think it's different. Being on the front or back I want everyone to have fun as always.

 

- In this tour Tsukino-san also has great part in the short story.

 

Saki: Hahahahaha (laughs)

 

Tsukino: At first we thought about the contents ourselves, also receiving hints from Watanabe-san, in the end as a “face correction device” I'm wearing a pantyhose in my head and singing every time (laughs). At first there was also the idea of impersonating Antonio Inoki-san……

 

Saki: The theme of destroying Tsuki's face was decided right in the beginning.

 

- Why Tsukino-san?

 

Tsukino: I myself tried to not see it, I believe is so I can break out of my shell. Watanabe-san said “Even in auditions for models they are asked to make funny faces, exactly because they are cute, to have this variety makes them more cute”. To break out of my shell, to expand my possibilities, to me the short story is such thing.

 

- Exactly because you are cute you'll show the possibilities.

 

Tsukino: That's not it, that's not it!!

 

Saki: Ahahaha (laughs). But, just like when Maika was the main we wanted to show he potential. Treating her like a bitch, making her wear a pantyhose, the result is that Maika broke in a good way.

 

- Indeed, Maika-san's image from when she joined changed a lot.

 

Saki: Right? (laughs). That's why Tsukino's visual and potential quality, aren't they incredible? Because it's a group with 9 members, it also includes the expectation for her to stand out more.

 

Tsukino: But since I was told by Watanabe-san, I started to think about the terror of the short story in a daily basis. We had a two man live with Jigokuguruma-san in the previous day of the Okinawa stage but, that time too I was like “Okinawa…… it's here”, it felt I would perform the live while holding down a lead in my heart.

 

Saki: You were like “uuuu…...”. What was scary?

 

Tsukino: I don't know. Fear of unknown? I was going to expose my face like that in front of people, I was also nervous about talking in the short story. Well, now I'm able to embraced the gratitude towards the audience in front of me who laugh. I thought you don't know things until you try them out.

 

Saki: There's also being cracked, the shell (laughs).

 

- In this short story Haruna-san's role is to treat the seniors as ugly.

 

Saki: Because it's Haruna there's a good flavor.

 

Haruna: The main is Tsuki but, because I have quite a lot of lines I wondered what I should do, everyday I met with Tsuki in the hotel, and the 2 of us practiced together “It's not like that, not like this”. Even now in the songs before the short story like “Hashiru!!” I get really nervous.

 

- You only think about what's next (laughs).

 

Tsukino: While thinking short story short story short story

 

Haruna: Even though the melody is a calm one, inside my head is like Fuwaaa~. I'm dancing to “Hashiru!!” but, it's like there's something “above” that.

 

- But, once you step into the content it's fun. The “Your selfies always have the same face”, you're dissing the everyone in society who takes selfies (laughs).

 

Saki: That's it. Everyone says “This is not just about Tsuki” (laughs).

 

 

 

 

It's a song that makes you feel what is to be a team

 

- Among that the new single “CAN'T STOP” is completed. This time too the producer is Matsukuma Kenta-san but, it's a song with a different atmosphere than usual.

 

Tsukino: I think it's a gentle song, one that makes you cry a different type of tears from the previous single “GANG 2”. “GANG 2” was a song that people listening would cry from being overwhelmed when we show our own emotions, actually there're a lot of people in the lives that end up crying. But “CAN'T STOP” it's not tears like that, you cry naturally because you felt gentleness.

 

Saki: Yes, the singing content is also new, until now there were a lot of words about our own feelings and sending a wish but, this time we can't to more forward together with as many people as possible, the gentle feelings is everywhere, I thought it was a song we can sing while properly facing someone.

 

Haruna: I want to sing it in a big wide are, I thought it was a song I want a great number of people to look at us.

 

Saki: I thought the feeling of the first verse fits Haruna very well.

 

- Why do you think this type of song was chosen to a single now?

 

Saki: “CAN'T STOP” is a strong title and while you think it's a song with the dashing feeling, it's a song with such kind melody. But, as I said before it also goes with one of the tour challenges, the current GANPARE is at this turn, I thought that feelings of lyricist Watanabe-san of “it would be nice if people can see this side from now on” were conveyed.

 

- With the feeling you are singing something good.

 

Saki: That's it. Somehow…. Parts like “You have to be kind to people” are quite unexpected. Well, Watanabe-san is actually nice though (laughs).

 

- Because is appearing in an unusual and straight forward way.

 

Saki: That is so. But with lyrics that make you feel what is to be a team, things like “Someone fell, we must help them immediately” or “we'll more forward as 9 members” appear, perhaps he wanted to convey that we should walk while valuing other members and looking at all the fans.

 

- I thought the current atmosphere of the group was an appropriate situation to the song.

 

Saki: In the stage of making the song, it felt like the mood between the members became better. This song makes such things. Since we received the demo we thought a lot about the song, perhaps there were things we also realized individually.

 

- Isn't that a really nice story.

 

Saki: Ahahahaha (laughs). This time I did the choreography but, that too I was helped a lot by other members opinions. When I asked “What theme should we use?” there were a lot of opinions like “Youth” or “I want to perform while connecting to the audience”, so I made that the main points, because there were a lot of cuts in the MV storyboard we received that were like “Everyone walks while holding hands”, I made that we hold hands all the time during the chorus.

 

Tsukino: Ah, I would be happy if the audience did that too.

 

Saki: Yeah. I think it's not a typical choreography but, because it's a wonderful song depending on the choreograph it could reversely become vain, I thought it was bad to do normally. Originally the held hands in the B-melody, then we would separate hands and go to the chorus but, “Ah, here it's better to not release our hands, this will become the main point of the song”, I made it resolutely. This time I didn't want to make it packed, I thought I didn't want to bother with counts either.

 

- It's also important not to be uniform, you made it with a different view until now.

 

Saki: Yes. But because it's GANPARE, without realizing it we were uniform (laughs).

 

 

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I'll appear dramatically in the final

 

- As expected (laughs). Now one more song, as coupling “RATESHOW”.

 

Saki: It was sent to us by Matsukuma-san faster than “CAN'T STOP”, moreover it was sent by Matsukuma-san himself like “It's done”, seems like Matsukuma-san always makes GANPARE's coupling songs with great amusement, it's a fun song that shows his playful heart.

 

- Lyrics were by Yua-san but, everyone else also submitted theirs.

 

Haruna: I wrote lyrics about my ordinary self until I became part of GANG PARADE. At first being always at home, then jumping into the night to play, reflecting a little (laughs).

 

- You reflected (laughs).

 

Haruna: Yes, a little. From then I worked hard seriously, and in the end became a part of GANG PARADE, I wrote such story. But it's that, the number of words in my mind are few, probably, it turned out a foolish lyric.

 

Tsukino: I want to see (laughs)

 

- How was the recording?

 

Tsukino: It was fun. It was also a feeling like “Do it freely without worrying about the music intervals”. Matsukuma-san had one request to me, I was told “Sing it like the Chinese in Lai le” so I sang, I would like people to listen to that.

 

Saki: I heard thinking Ah that part is definitely Tsuki~ (laughs).

 

Tsukino: Because everyone sang freely, it was really fun listening to everyone else's parts.

 

- Haruna-san also has an important line, a musical like part.

 

Haruna: I sang imagining I was in a mansion full of bats. In a house surrounded by an iron fence.

 

Tsukino: Like a haunted mansion.

 

Haruna: Yes. I had the image of going over this fence and jumping into the nigh.

 

- Also looking forward to this choreography.

 

Saki: I said to make it with Maika from now on. A feeling we can show exactly because there are a lot of people, I'm thinking about making it somehow like a real show.

 

- Ok. Then, how are you preparing to the tour final on 9/20?

 

Tsukino: It's the first tour to me so, since I think my evolution will be seen, I want to show a completely rebuilt GANG PARADE at Zepp Tokyo.

 

Saki: Personally I definitely want to surpass the pass, I want to pass over the 1 year magic I was into. As a group since we're touring in a good condition, I want people who come to see us and staff to all think “It's these 9 after all”, I also want us to feel that way.

 

Haruna: Yes. At the final I'll become “Baby Superman”.

 

Tsukino: Because the current Haruna is “Summer's baby”.

 

Haruna: Since I became part of GANG PARADE I've been told a lot “you're like a baby”, I didn't like that so I was making an effort to become “Autumn's lady” but, I thought there wasn't any need to become that, while having the qualities of a baby I'll become an unprecedented Superman. That's why 9/20 will birth a new frame, it's also a birthday. Explosive, I'll originate dramatically.

 

Tsukino: ……. will it be ok?