yeah, the other two members don't really sing much. D: i'm quite bummed about it but it's a rare gem and awesome...like flail...when you hear them rap and sing. xDD i melt whenever ryu sings. xDDD you can check out their song 'deny' for a small line from ryuichi. kehehehehe. and if you're looking for newer stuff, 'stay' has a rap w/ ryu and ryo. my fave song from the 7th ave album!


and i so totally just watched the new mv. i've been anticipating it for a while becuase the song is SUPER GOOD. *o*;;;; i have to say, the choreography is killer. i'm so used to w-inds. with their oldskool dance. but newskool dance rocks even more. xDDD seriously. i really love the mv. hopefully there's an HQ somewhere. D: i really want to watch it in HQ just to see the dance and everything.

ryuichi is so hot in those pants. kuhuhuhuhu!

hamasaki ayumi used the clown for her PV Alterna around 05, it was so creepy hate clowns.


Welcome I'm new fan too, I discovered w-ind earlier this year. to answer your question, both ryo and ryu have one each in tour 2004, if Iam not mistaken they Compose the songs but I'm not sure.

Ryohei - stand your ground
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D90AKIExZqI
Ryuichi - energy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrQ328wVH_o

Ohh, I see~ Thanks for answering~ ^^ It was kind of confusing >.> It still kind of is since I don't know what their names and their faces are XD

The clown in the Can't Get Back PV really is creepy though. <.<

don't worry it takes time, I just recently got to know how is how.
this site will help u for any information, images & downloads : super-lover.net

w-inds. new single Everyday/CAN'T GET BACK debuted #2 on the Oricon chart with sales of 13,601 x 1.75 = 23,802


Congrats to w-inds.! It's been a while since I see them this high on the chart. But I honestly think they need to change to a better management or record company like Avex or something. Their sales have been declining like crazy and their current company is not promoting w-inds. very well. They hardly appear on any television or music shows anymore, and the ones that they do go on are not really popular ones. Does anyone know why they don't go on Heyx3 anymore? I think w-inds. are very talented - I just really wish that their sales are better.

^ i don't want them to switch T-T but i can see your point. sigh... but man its good to see them charting. #2 isn't bad at all
i don't know about the heyx3 thing. i heard something about some tv shows only showing certain companies' groups but i don't know if heyx3 did that or if i'm even right...

anywayyy
i just heard all of the everyday/can't get back single. can't get back is definitely my favorite but all of the songs are good. i'm assuming its a double a side and both songs will be on their next album?

sorry i totally forgot about posting this:
http://community.livejournal.com/feel_the_fate/601641.html
the single download,enjoy.

Sure is! I haven't seen them this high in the chart for a long time.
I still remember back long long time ago their singles always top the chart but it also drop down very fast..
Hope they can stay as long as possible.

I heard from my sister that w-inds gained new fans lately because of their new single.
Personally, I love their new song "Can't Get Back".
Even though I downloaded the whole single, but I haven't heard the other songs yet

--angel

I love Can't Get Back. I think they should stay with this sound for a while. It really suits them. I can see why the single gained them new fans. It's a really good song. Personally, this song resurged my love for w-inds. After, It's in the Stars, I didn't listen to them as much. I didn't anticipate their videos as much as I use to. I was really questioning if I really was a fan or not. This single just got rid of any doubts I had about why I became a fan and if I was still a fan.

Hi. I'm a w-inds. fan too. I want to watch can't get back performance in tv program.
Please don't miss music fighter on this friday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbK4kUQju28

It's always good to watch this again (although it is from quite a while ago when the boys are young) : D

If anyone wants to hear more of the boys. Not only Ryuichi sings during Deny, he has MINI-solo parts in super lover, night flight, time machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZOe6lf-Ws8 <--time machine, ryohei sings too~

i love 'cant get back' too. w-inds fighting!!!!!
its a shame they're not as big as they were before ><

Everyday/CAN'T GET BACK's sales:

#2 Week 1 - 48,303

Congrats to w-inds.!!! This sales figure is really good for them I think. It's nice to see that their sales are going back up.

w-inds. in Soompi! =) I love them very much !!!!

Love W-inds and yay for new fans, I must say C'ant get back made me listen to them again after being engulfed by other Japanese artists lol, love the video for it too (Except for the clown which was freaky!!!) I actually like all the songs on the single. Everyday is a nice slow song

im sooo excited for w-inds!! i have been a long time fan of them even during their quite times, still bought their tours DVDs!! seems like they r regaining their popularity amongst the japanese fans thats good!!
hope it will be like the 'super lover' era again!! hehe gambatte!!
i do like the way w-inds genre of songs gradually develops and changes from album to album!! i do love their latest single be it the mv was weird but intriguing

I am so late but I just stumbled onto can't get back and I absolutely love it. ): I wish W-inds was more active on television and performances I hardly hear about them anymore. T-T This is so nostalgic hahaha~~

ZOMGZOMG I'm in love with Ryuichi lol and his long hair
I like it better when he ties it up though, like in the Shiki PV (I know, I know, it's really old, but it's my favorite =P)
I really love their dancing, you don't really find a whole lot of dancing Japanese boybands

I read previously that it was written in w-inds. contract that Keita was the lead singer and should always have the main parts of the songs. But sincerely, I do think Ryuichi and Ryohei sing better than Keita now... :X As they always do the harmonies behind Keita and stuff, they must have gotten super good with hearing and hitting the right notes etc.

I'd love to see both of them sing more *sigh* I think it would help to gain new fans for w-inds. if they balanced out the voices, they would look more like a group rather than just Keita being the singer and Ryuichi and Ryohei being the back up dancers and singers...

Hello, I am a fellow fan of w-inds. Pleased to meet you! *^^*

I know that Keita sings all the vocals, but recently I was going over their profiles out of sheer boredom, only to see that it's Ryohei, not Keita, who's the leader?

Can anyone clear this up for me? ^^;;

<Currently obsessed with w-inds' "Trial">

^ Ryo is the leader of the group but kei is the lead in singing.
w-inds. X'mas special live 2008 - YES or NO -

News: w-inds. new single 『Rain Is Falling』on the 13 of may.(I'm not sure about the name though)

Thank you for the video! ^^ (Even though I don't know how it relates to my question....?)

Is there a video that actually shows Ryo being the leader???? ^^;; Sorry for the many questions!

^ lol no, it not related, I thought of sharing something with w-inds. fans, I should've made a gap between my sentence and the video.

haven't heard anything new about them lately...
so what's up with them? seems like they're not that active now...

hmmm... my favorite song from them would be Yume no Basho e...
well... that's the first song I heard from them... XD

^ I read in LJ there a single in may and they will collaborate with Gdragon from Bigbang, he is doing the rapping.

^ really?!
that's so cool! so they're going to change their style?
with the rap collaborations and all...

Ahh. I'm so excited for the w-inds. and GD collaboration.
I'll be waiting for their new single too, though it seems like it's a long time from now. LOL. I just realized that it'll be released on my birthday. xD

AHA. I totally flailed when I heard news of GD doing a collaboration with w-inds.
I'm reaaallyyy super excited for their single. <3 "Can't Get Back" was so awesome. <3
-tears- ... I hope Ryohei and Ryuichi rap too though. LOL. There's been a small lack of them in the tracks lately.


I wouldn't be surprised if w-inds. changed their style. But I do hope they keep with the R&B they've been producing.
Or OMGOSH, the R&B mix with house. Haha. <3 I imagine something like "Tokyo" with a stronger beat would be really great. Teeheehee...

...

Finally got around to watching 7th Avenue concert! ^O^ Ryu & Super Lover. <3 Ha~! Awesome-ness~~~!
Keita is sooo buff. My sister and I have been reminiscing the past week with w-inds. vids and we're all, "Kei was so skinny!"

I haven't seen any of 7th Avenue concert yet. I hope someone's uploaded it on youtube or veoh. ><

shiningstar153~ many times, the leader of the group is the oldest member, but it doesn't always work out that way. Ryo is the oldest, but they're so close in age, and they've been together so long--even though Keita sings more lead than Ryu or Ryo, I feel at least they feel equal to each other among themselves--R+R are dance and rap masters, not just there to back Orange kun up by being cute sidekicks--and no one is less (or more) important than anyone else. They also have good voices--which would be good to hear a little more often. I think I've said that a lot in the last few years. =x (Hope everthing makes sense--sleepy. +.+; )

Welcome to the thread, too. ^^;

I don't think collab with GD would change their style that much--it's not like they never rap. lol Whatever they do, they make it theirs. I know some old fans don't like them anymore because their music matured like they did--and others dumped them because they didn't get radical enough. -.-

Posting this for anyone that might not have seen it--part of Keita's blog from last October.

http://www.soompi.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=256109

thanks for telling us about the upcoming single--May's not that far.

oh...

I can't wait for the new single!
and I haven't seen the concert... T_T

anyways, I've been missing the old times though...
every summer I feel this way... T_T

I remember listening to their song Yume no Basho e...
that's my favorite song from them!
I miss them singing that song!
and singing songs like that...

theres a link of a sample of 'rain is falling' floating on soompi somewhere.

also, looks like GD will be featured in the mv which will be done by SAMPRAS DESIGN (http://www.samprasdesign.com/).


I'm looking forward to it a lot except for GD fans saying his part is the best or made it good (I've seen that around a lot already and its ridic.)

I like what I've heard so far from the sample. I'm really loving the direction w-inds.'s music is heading. I am super excited for the full single to come out.

I've been seeing those comments as well and they make me angry. Their songs were good before they collabed with GD and they will be good after it's done too. Imo, Ryohei or Ryuichi could have easily done the rap part and the song would still be good (I would have actually liked to that to be the case, but oh well).

1Minte preview of rain is faillin': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VghqVZDspM
and dear god help us form big bang's fans comments, I just hope they are not worst than DBSK's fan

No need to stress about BigBang/GD fans. They're just being... well, young spazzy fans, rofl.
I see no comments of them talking bad about W-inds. They're just a little hyper over GD, that's all (it's understandable, since they're Big Bang fans).
Btw, I'm both a DBSK and a Big Bang fan, so I must be "crazy" right??.....
Umm, no. Any fangirl of any group can be "crazy", it just depends on the persons.

Anyway... ^^
w-inds. x G-Dragon - Rain is Fallin' (full pv) *BiGBANGxLUV

just saw the pv. I pretty much like the first half of the song. It's a diff. style for w-inds. I guess the only thing that really bothers me is that it's pretty segmented... like sing sing sing gd-rap-for-a-sec sing sing another-rap-thrown-in sing...
I guess it's harder since gd doesn't know japanese though.. can't even communicate well...?

ahh well. it'll be interesting to see all the reactions. and i cant wait to hear the other songs on the single~

I really, really like the new song. :D The last w-inds. song I listened to religiously was... Kawari Yuku Sora XD So awhile ago... but I've been a fan of theirs for a long, long time. :D A lot of people have been mentioning how they think their sound changed recently. Maybe it has [compared to recent releases. I wouldn't know ._.;] but to me it sounds similar to how I remember it. <3 Or maybe I'm just being odd. I always get nostalgic when I talk about w-inds. T.T;; But yeah. Can't wait to hear the other track on the new single~!

^ the style is pretty diff from their more recent releases (can't get back, everyday..)
no point in coulda/shoulda but i think gd would have sounded good with their more dance-style tracks like 'it's in the stars' or even 'love is the greatest thing'.

anyway... yay for this new release. i hope they start releasing more singles faster (and gain mor fans)... it feels like they've slowed down a little.

Yeah. 'Rain is Falling' is not my favorite by w-inds. but I'm just happy to hear a new song from them. It seems like they've shifted to a more RnB-pop sound.
Anyway, the music video was alright. i really loved Keita's chest popping though. And GD was awesome too. I hope Ryu and Ryo get more parts soon. It seems like they haven't rapped in a song since forever.

Nobody posted this yet.
w-inds. - Hybrid Dream (pv) *sshu551

They look great. I like it, it's interesting. :]

I love "Rain is Fallin' ".
I can't wait for it to come out.
I love GD's rap there, it's really catchy :B

hybrid dream sounds better than rain is fallin in my opinion (the video is better too..), though i prefer their last single a lot more. i hope they release more stuff faster this year D:

wow me too. I was a big fan of them in like grade 7 (4 years ago).
I remember they were pretty popular.. Idk about now.
Dedicated to You, Long Road, and Shiki were my fave songs : D

Their collab w/ GD was .. interesting.
I dunno, its not really theyre style IMO. (the clothes they were wearing that is xD)

So true that Rain is fallin' wasn't their style but it's great to see them trying out new things.
But the song was awesome! I loved it from the first time I heard it.

I really like Hybrid Dream, Keita's voice is great as usual....
I can't wait until they perform a live.

I love their Hanamuke..I think it's one of the best song ^^

Hanamuke is also my favorite song, after reading the English translation of the lyrics I love it even more.

^ to some comments above, i miss Keita's -breaking-voice days too *sigh*
it was good and all with the cutesy corny dance,
but its sad how Keita was ALWAYS the main vocal
now the three member gets an equal part so its a good thing

Found some really nice digipri of w-inds.
OMG! Keita is friggin' sexy in these photos!!!! And Ryohei, I love how he shaved....

Photos credit w-inds. Baidu Bar

nice photos... thanks for posting them