Staff Diary (2012.04.12) — Cherry Blossoms

桜
Cherry Blossoms

皆さん、お元気ですか？
Everyone, how are you doing?

知恵の輪、といてますか？
Are you solving puzzle rings?

カンニング
Cheating

↑こんな風にカンニングしちゃダメですよ（笑。（二回目の目撃情報より）
You shouldn’t cheat like this (lol. (eyewitness information from the second time she was caught)

東京では、桜も昨日の雨で散ってしまって、少し切なくもありますが、、、
In Tokyo, the cherry blossoms have all fallen due to yesterday’s rain, so it’s a little sad, but…

桜色に染まった道も何だか風情があって素敵ですね。
the streets that are dyed with the color of cherry blossoms have this elegant feeling, and it’s rather wonderful isn’t it.

「散りゆくからこそ　美しい」　 by 『fight』
“Because it is fleeting, it’s beautiful” by “fight”
(散りゆく (chiri yuku) means to fall off in terms of flowers and leaves, but to fade away/disappear in general)

さてさて、INFORMATIONでも発表させていただきましたが、
Well then, well then, I have already announced this in the INFORMATION section, but

「みんなのうた」でのOAが決定しました！！
appearance on the show “Minna no Uta” (Everyone’s Song) has been confirmed!!

8～9月のOAなので、まだ少し先ですが、ぜひぜひ楽しみにしていて下さいね。
It’s on the air from August to September, so it’s still a little while away, but by all means, please look forward to it.

私たちスタッフ、そしてYUIも「みんなのうた」は小さい頃、よく観ていた番組なので、とても嬉しく楽しみです！
“Minna no Uta” is a show that we staff, as well as YUI, watched a lot when we were little, so we’re very happily looking forward to it!

ところで、先日、YUIからこんな写真が届きました。
By the way, this picture came from YUI the other day.

Suspicious Remix of YUI’s – “Why me” on iTunes/Amazon Store

Out of curiosity, I was doing an iTunes search for “YUI” ‘s music and I came across something suspicious.

Go into the iTunes music store and search: YUI & Star Scene

You will notice a song called “Why me” and yes, you will find that it is YUI’s song. This person, “Star Scene” has made a ‘remix’ version of it and has posted this for sale on Amazon & in the iTunes store. As this is not an official release, this should be reported and taken down as this “Star Scene” dj does not have the rights to use this for personal gain. According to the iTunes store, the song is apparently “copyrighted under Starlight Recording.”

See Amazon posting here


We did a little search and found “Star Scene”‘s SoundCloud account where various mixes of songs are made.

Examples:
Michael Jackson http://soundcloud.com/djstarscene/starlight-michael-jackson
Daft Punk http://soundcloud.com/djstarscene/derezzed-smith-comma-johns


The idea of remixes are fun but posting any song for sale without the rights to them is violating copyright laws and is deemed illegal.

I hope Sony Japan picks up on this issue. I also hope this user “Star Scene” removes this from the Amazon & iTunes store as soon as possible. Perhaps, Sony Japan, should join and provide YUI’s music on the iTunes store and make it official? ^^

Credit to YL

YUI’s『fight』to be aired on Radio!

According to YUI-net:
2012/05/05 23:00～25:00 NHK FM「YUIのラジオ『fight』」

5/5(土)にNHK FMにて特別番組「YUIのラジオ『fight』」がオンエアされる事が決定しました！
ぜひチェックして下さい。

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5/5（土）
23:00～25:00
「YUIのラジオ『fight』」
NHK FM

Nコン 2012

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「fight」is the song that YUI-san has written as part of this year’s NHK NCON’s song writing contest.

Looks like the song will be aired 2012/05/05 with YUI on the RADIO! It’s been a long time now since we’ve had a YUI on a radio show so let’s look forward to it!

(not sure if this is going to be the choir version that we’ve seen a few weeks ago or YUI’s version of the song that will be aired….)

More information:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/ncon/yui/index.html
http://ameblo.jp/ncon/

It seems like the NHK NCON website is allowing some sort of submission from the public

Quick summary about the form submission (from hirotana):

The form is for the message to YUI. They collect messages and show to YUI. The message must be about fighting, encourage or something like that…