ONE N’ ONLY Courtesy of Billboard Japan
ONE N’ ONLY, the Japanese dancing as well as singing team that mixes J-pop as well as K-pop to develop “JK-pop,” launched its brand-new cd, Departure, on May 17. This cd stands for the end result of the “5 N’ 5” job, which started in January to celebrate the 5th wedding anniversary of the team’s development. Billboard Japan just recently talked with the 6 participants of the team.
You’ve had a number of launches throughout your 5th year, now you’ve covered them off with the launch of Departure. It’s an actually complete cd, loaded with tunes.
HAYATO: It has all the tunes we’ve launched over the previous 5 months, obviously, yet it likewise has a great deal of brand-new tunes. It’s an unique cd, as well as a great deal of treatment entered into making it. We didn’t simply include all our previous tunes.
So it has to have been truly difficult for you when you were making it.
Everyone: It was so difficult! (they laugh)
HAYATO: There were continuous launch occasions, as well as from what I can remember we were constantly tape-recording product, so we were very hectic.
TETTA: I believe it’s possibly the busiest ONE N’ ONLY has actually ever before been.
EIKU: We fulfilled a great deal of Boodles, also (“SWAGs” is the label for ONE N’ just followers).
TETTA: We likewise provided a speech at the best of the flick Battle King!! We’ll Rise Again. Our routines were truly loaded. We likewise did a trip of Latin America, participated in EBiDAN THE CEREMONY (an occasion placed on by their ability firm), as well as took place a solo scenic tour. When it was all taking place, I simply needed to advise myself that when it was all done, I’d have expanded a whole lot as an individual.
The tunes on the cd are vibrant as well as uncontrolled by style. Which are your individual faves?
REI: I such as “Call me” one of the most. It’s addicting, as well as it has components that will certainly aid it go viral on TikTok. It has a reggae really feel, as well as talking with our voice fitness instructor excited on me simply exactly how crucial it was to have the rhythm behind-the-scenes. We expanded a whole lot via our operate in Latin America, which is what I believe place us in the best setting to sing the verses to “Call me.”
What regarding you, HAYATO? What’s your favored track?
HAYATO: I such as the initial track, “CIRCLE.” JUNE composed it for us 2 years earlier, as well as we’ve been maintaining it in our pocket till the moment was right. I’ve constantly enjoyed it, so I asked for it to be placed on the cd. This is our initial track to be done totally by the rap group, so it holds an unique location in my heart.
What regarding you, rap employee KENSHIN as well as NAOYA?
KENSHIN: I sang on the track, as well as it was truly tough. The rapping was technological, as well as there was a whole lot I needed to carry out in regards to strategy, so I damaged each component down as well as evaluated it, one at a time.
Like HAYATO stated, the track itself was composed 2 years earlier, as well as at the time I couldn’t fairly obtain an excellent hold on it. But I’ve experienced a whole lot over the previous 2 years, as well as it looks like all I’ve found out has actually truly integrated. I enjoyed to be able to sing on “Circle,” as well as I believe it’s a really unique track.
NAOYA: This track has a self-confidence. It’s not like the audio itself is very effective, as well as the track’s hook is laid back, yet when I sang on it, I intended to accent the track with something brand-new. I don’t believe that the me of 2 years earlier might have sung that hook. It’s a tune that I can sing as a result of where I am today.
I’m truly expecting seeing just how you do it live.
HAYATO: It’s possibly mosting likely to be rather hostile. Before we ended up recording, we lined the tunes all up as soon as. We were speaking about the tunes, as well as every person concurred that “Circle” obtained them terminated up. I believe it appeared truly well.
KENSHIN: I likewise truly like “Set a Fire.” The cd has a great deal of hostile tunes as well as a great deal of remarkable tunes, yet “Set a Fire” is a lighter track, in a great way. It’s an event track. When we were considering just how we might enhance ONE N’ ONLY’s real-time programs, we highly really felt that we required something that every person might participate in, that would certainly make them all resemble, “ONE N’s shows are so fun!” I believe this track includes that sort of seasoning.
TETTA: It’ll possibly obtain individuals relocating Latin America. It’d be terrific to carry out outdoors!
NAOYA: I such as “10,000 miles,” which is called after the range in between below as well as Brazil. I directly like the audio of the track, as well as the truth that we carried out in Brazil is what makes us so right to sing this track. Our Boodles in Latin America are thus far away, yet we’re constantly considering them, as well as this track shares just how although we’re literally much apart, we’re with each other in spirit.
Wow, taking a look at the range as a real number, that’s truly far.
NAOYA: Yeah. And yet, regardless of this range, our followers are available sustaining us. I really feel so happy.
TETTA: I likewise such as “10,000 miles.” It shares the means we really feel, constantly maintaining our Boodles primary in our hearts. I suggest the track, since it’s obtained a mild feeling yet the audio strikes right at your heart, which I like.
The cd has plenty of vibrant, abundant tunes, with both a JK-pop as well as a Western pop feeling.
EIKU: Yeah, it’s an abundant cd. I such as “Reflection,” which I aided create, yet I likewise such as “Be Alright,” which is just on the basic variation of the cd. I played guitar on the recording, as well as both the tune as well as the verses are terrific. Even when you’re attempting your finest everyday, there are times when your spirit simply collapses. When that takes place, as opposed to a person attempting to motivate you, it really feels much better to listen to “you’re not alone,” “it’ll be alright,” “we’re here for you.” That’s what I intended to share when I sang the track.
It seems like the sort of track that would certainly bring the target market to rips when played real-time.
EIKU: And us vocalists, also (laughs). I believe that’s the sort of track it’s mosting likely to become.
Do you have a message you’d like to show individuals that are expecting this largely stuffed brand-new cd?
HAYATO: Every day has actually been an actually satisfying one throughout this 5th year celebratory job, as well as our brand-new cd is the end result of our collection of current launches. We called it Departure since it’s a beginning factor, as well as we intend to gain ground from below. Once we make our springtime scenic tour an excellent success, we’ll utilize what we gain from the experience moving forward, displaying a ONE N’ ONLY that is continuously progressing. I wish every person can really feel just how unique this cd is, a ceremony of our 5th wedding anniversary, which they experience this limitless feeling along with us.
—This meeting by Kana Yoshida initially showed up on Billboard Japan
