įor "Yellow Pansy Street", drummer Ohkura had mentioned that, " the drum part was hard but in terms of the type of tempo " and that he was, " looking forward to performing it at this (year's) concert ".
This could be confirmed by the fact that the animated version of band wave towels throughout the video for the song. " He later stated on the DVD making that T.W.L stood for the word "towel". I don't know the reason (behind it), hahaha! When I first heard the song, I was able to honestly get it. Shota Yasuda had said, " I don't know the meaning behind the title for T.W.L. When I heard the demo tape, I had instantly liked the song. When I found out that Yuzu had wrote the song, I was extremely excited and yelled " Oh!!! ". Tadayoshi Ohkura had said, " I really like the song, T.W.L, that was written by Yuzu's Kitagawa Yujin. "T.W.L" was written for Kanjani Eight to be used for the Shin-chan anime and upon news of hearing that Kitagawa had penned the song for them, there was a mutual excitement among the band.
"Yellow Pansy Street" was written and composed by Takeshi with music arrangement also done by him, Yasutaka Kume and brass arrangement by YOKAN. "T.W.L" was written by and composed by Yujin Kitagawa of Yuzu with music arranged by Keisuke Noma and brass arrangement by YOKAN. You Yokoyama of Kanjani Eight has stated "T.W.L" to currently be a favorite of his out of the songs the band has performed thus far. Both songs off of this single were performed at their 2011 concert tour, Kanjani8: 5 Big Dome Tour Eight x Eighter: Sorry if it isn't Enjoyable Tour. The song "T.W.L" was the primary song for this single release and thus was performed several times on television. The video for "T.W.L" portrays Kanjani Eight interacting with Shin-chan inspired caricatures of themselves while "Yellow Pansy Street" portrays Kanjani Eight playing as a band against a red, yellow and orange draped set dressed in Beatles-inspired outfits. The accompanied music videos with the single are separate from one another. The single was a commercial success, topping both the Oricon and Billboard Japan charts upon its release. The lyrics for "T.W.L" focus on going forward without looking back while the lyrics for "Yellow Pansy Street" are about a man looking back on what could have been with his former lover. As a double single, "T.W.L/Yellow Pansy Street" features two different styles of music, J-pop for T.W.L and rock for Yellow Pansy Street, and uses several different instruments in its overall composition such as horns, guitars, drums, keyboards and synthesizers. The single was released by Imperial Records as the first release from their fifth album titled, Fight.
The single was used as the theme song for the release of the 19th Crayon Shin-chan movie, Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: Operation Golden Spy as well as the 14th theme song for the anime. This release marks their first single release for the year 2011 and their 16th single overall. " T.W.L/Yellow Pansy Street" is the double-A side single release by the Japanese boyband Kanjani8, the former written and composed by Yujin Kitagawa of Yuzu and the latter written and composed by Takeshi. Yokoyama speaking about his favorite Kanjani Eight song of the moment. Though, watching that scene really made me happy.
They knew the song but they probably didn't know about me. The children were really singing along while watching but they totally did not notice that I was there. A while back, at a bath house, when I entered the sauna I heard " Crayon Shin-chan " playing on the TV.