SCANDAL is in charge every Monday in February! Tonight's TOMOMI's turn.

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I'm bassist TOMOMI.
Tomorrow is Valentine's Day; maybe that means that you'll sleep thinking of the person you love?
I've never given chocolate to a person I liked, nor confessed to someone
I wanted to experience that when I was a student.
Secretly bringing chocolate to school,
Thinking of how you could give over the chocolate after school,
Spending the day with your heart pounding
I wish I had done something like that.
Good luck to the people who plan to profess their love tomorrow.
Our best album 「SCANDAL」 comes out on 2/15.
For this album we had our fans vote for their favorite songs and ranked them.
The top 34 songs and 2 new songs are on it, making it quite a voluminous album.
It has content that you can enjoy from any era of ours.
We'll be going on a 47 prefecture tour in support of this album.
It will be the longest tour in our history, touring for five months until July.
I hope to be able to tour around while having fun.

The theme of tonight's selected songs are love songs I want to hear on Valentine's.
As tomorrow is Valentine's, I've chosen romantic songs.


1. Tsumibukaku Aishite yo [Love Me Guiltily] / CHARA
CHARA-san's lyrics can be perceived in many ways,
And she has many lyrics where the recipient's power of imagination spreads out,
But this song is a very straightforward love song.
I chose it because it's a very upbeat song that might give you the courage to confess if you listen to it on Valentine's.


2. Versace on the Floor / Bruno Mars
It's a ballad that's sexy and romantic--"Take off that Versace dress for me"
But picks up an urban atmosphere in the middle of it. It's a very cool song that I love.


3. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman / Carole King
"I can be a natural woman when I'm with you"
It's such a deep love song.
This song, Carole King and her husband--rather, her ex-husband,,,
It's a song that Gerry Goffin and Carole King offered to Aretha Franklin.
I love Carole King and chose her self-covered version. Softly...


4. Bitter Chocolate / SCANDAL
I chose this song, thinking that there might be some people who aren't happy in love.
It's also included in our best album.
So far there haven't been many opportunities for it to be played on the radio as it's an album-only song,
But actually, we wanted to be more appealing by having a middle song like this.
Which is why I picked it.

SCANDAL is in charge every Monday in February! Tonight's MAMI's turn.

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Guitarist MAMI is in charge this week.
We released our best album 「SCANDAL」 last week on 2/15.
For this best album we had the fans vote for songs and then we ranked them,
Selected the top 34 songs, and added in 2 new songs.
It's an album that's quite voluminous with 36 songs in total.
Since we had our fans make the strongest album together with us,
We would like you to listen to it.
Also, we'll be going on a 47 prefecture tour from March in support of the album.
We'll be touring around live houses from March until July,
And we're so excited for it.
There's no doubt the lives will make you sweat.

So, as for the songs I selected,
I went with ones that'll warm your heart and body up and make you dance on the ever continuing cold days
I think your body and mind tends to shrink up
When cold days keep continuing and it's troublesome going outside,
But winter gives off an open-like feeling
So, I selected songs that'll get your sprits up
When you realize you've heard them somewhere before.


1. Call Me Maybe / Carly Rae Jepsen
This is a song that'll lift your sprits up when let yourself go with the flow of the pleasant 4/4 beat
It's a song that's perfect to start off days
When you want to do something that'll improve your mood from the morning or make your day an easy one.
I think this is a song that'll accelerate the exciting love that people in love share.


2. Life / Des'ree
A song that'll make your body move loosely.
It has a fresh sound and a warm melody
And will boost your excitement for warm weather seasons.
I chose it thinking that it'd be good to listen to as we head towards spring and summer.


3. Wannabe / Spice Girls
That first 「YO〜！」,, you know it!
It's so upbeat right from the start.
The piano rhythm is so cool,
And it's exhilarating to see the girls stir things up in the music video.
A song that'll blast the cold away.


4. I Want You to Know / Zedd feat. Selena Gomez
This song is always playing in the salon I go to and it absolutely ups the excitement
It made me think again of how songs that'll make you excited are awesome.
I think it'll make you sweat and dance while listening to it even during cold seasons.

SCANDAL is in charge every Monday in February! This last night is RINA's turn.

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In charge tonight is drummer RINA.
Tonight is the final round--it's come around pretty fast.
I've felt like this from the start.
I listened to all of the member's weeks as well.
I enjoyed that all of their characters really came out.
We, SCANDAL, released our best album 「SCANDAL」 this month.
We're so proud of it. 2016 was our tenth anniversary,
And it became a best album tightly packed with those ten years.
I really want those who haven't listened to our songs to listen to this.
Also, we will be going on a 47 prefecture tour in support of this album from March.
I'm really looking forward to it. We'd always think about wanting to do this,
And we're so excited that the time the finally ripe.

For the songs I've selected tonight, I went with a theme of songs I want to listen to while lying in bed on a sleepless night.


1. Natsu no Kage [Summer Shadows] / Kinoko Teikoku
I love the lyrics in the chorus.
The chorus makes me go "Whoa" no matter how many times I listen to it.
It's currently winter, so the season is a bit different from the title "Summer Shadows."
The image I have of this song is the wind coming through the gap in the window, making the white curtains rustle as you're rolling around in bed,
And then you close your eyes while thinking about the person you love.
That's the restful image I have of this song.
That's why this song was chosen, as it's perfect for this theme.


2. Wonderwall / Oasis
A documentary film on Oasis was released at the end of last year.
I went to go see it in theaters right away.
Because of that I listened to Oasis a lot again and watched the movie.
I truly believe that a band is not only about music.
Attitudes, actions, fashion, etc. all make up what a band is.
Seeing Liam and Noel, I strongly believe that.


3. Backpack / Petite Meller
This artist is a singer-songwriter from Paris, France and is currently working solo,
But I really liked the all-girl band she was in called Terry Poison, who did pop-rock and digital-like music.
This is related to what I mentioned about Oasis,
But female artists must show fashion and makeup--everything--as part of their music. That's what Petite Meller is.
Her voice is adorable and both her fashion and makeup are lovely.


4. CITY / BLUE ENCOUNT
It's a rap song with lyrics about the band's history.
When BLUE ENCOUNT appears in the media,
They're often introduced as frequently crying, hot-blooded, or emotional,
But I think they're simply a rock band that writes great songs--a band above all others.
I've gotten to watch them live plenty of times.
They put on awesome lives, and they're one of the bands we can't lose out to.

SCANDAL's 「SUPER EDITION」 ＃1:
～Those who golf as well as those who don't! SUPER EDITION produced by SCANDAL!!～

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SUPER EDITION is a radio program where artists produce music atmospheres monthly.
SCANDAL is up for February 2018!


SUPER EDITION produced by SCANDAL! has begun!


【SCANDAL's friendships】

Each week, each of the members will introduce one band or artist
Out of the ones who are related to SCANDAL.

Who TOMOMI is introducing is...

[Negoto]

An all-girl rock band like SCANDAL.
I'm good friends with guitarist Mizuki Masuda!
I had her participate on our new album 『HONEY』 as an arranger.

Negoto continues to change while taking on new challenges.
As an all-girl rock band whose members' personalities all shine through,
They work hard and encourage SCANDAL.


【A feature on 『HONEY』】

Each week we will be featuring two songs apiece from their new album 『HONEY』!


[Platform Syndrome]

Filled with speediness, it's the album's first track.
The message of "Even if you don't force yourself to act cheerful, isn't it okay to occasionally depend on time and someone else?" has been put into it.
Actually, it's a song that was finished at the very last minute!


[OVER]

This is the second track!
It's a song that'll hook you onto SCANDAL's current mood, and when you listen to it on the album,
You can enjoy the way it flows from [Platform Syndrome]. It's filled with a playful spirit!

TOMOMI @ J-WAVE's 「MITSUBISHI JISHO MARUNOUCHI MUSICOLOGY」 - January 5th

For this week's Legend, TOMOMI of SCANDAL and music writer Hisashi Murakami came out to talk about 『Maroon 5』, who are playing at Tokyo Dome for the first time next month.


■How I found out about Maroon 5

TOMOMI: We attended a vocal & dance school before forming the band, and MTV would always be on there. When I saw Alicia Keys, who we would always copy during vocal lessons, appear on MTV, Adam [Levine from Maroon 5] was singing with her. I didn't know that the band was called Maroon 5, but I found that out later. After that, 「This Love」 was used during a lesson, and it hit me that this was a Maroon 5 song. That's how I came to listen to them. I wanted to listen to the song at home, so I went to borrow their CD, burned it on a mini-disc, and listened to them that way. It's a song that simply makes you want to move your body. Their mode really changes with each album. They're so flexible with adopting moods and trends of the time; I think of how interesting that is while listening to them. A mode change happens for us every album, too. There are moments when you're like, "How would people who like that song react to this song?" where expectations and anxieties mix together, but even Maroon 5 shrugs it off and goes with a completely different feeling. They give us courage to be like, "This is good; this is how it should be."


■Most listened-to album

ー1st album『Songs About Jane』

TOMOMI: They don't incorporate dance music in that much, but their music makes you want to dance. It's one of their mysterious-yet-charming features.


■What if SCANDAL covered Maroon 5!? TOMOMI's top 3 Maroon 5 songs she wants to cover!

＃3 - Beautiful Goodbye
I simply like this song. We almost never play an acoustic-only show. That's why I'd like to try performing it while expressing it with minimum sounds on instruments like an acoustic guitar and a cajon.

＃2 - Won't Go Home Without You
I've always wanted to mute up until the chorus, and then suddenly pluck it as soon as the chorus kicks in (laughs). That'd definitely feel good. I'm okay with being a bassist, but I'd want to play the guitar (laughs).

＃1 - Moves Like Jagger ft. Christina Aguilera
I want to try noisily playing the fuzz guitar with a main whistle riff. Since all of us sing vocals, it'd be interesting if HARUNA sang Adam's parts and the other members sang Christina Aguilera's parts. If we could sing it, I'd want to do it.


Look forward to more Maroon 5 next weekend!