BE:FIRST – MILLION BILLION #65 2023.12.23 (SOTA, RYUHEI; JUNON-Makino Tomoaki)

[shizuna]

Summary of BE:FIRST's MILLION BILLION #65 December 23rd, 2023

Note: In the month of December, 2023 the CHALLENGER was JUNON with former professional soccer player, Makino Tomoaki, who played for Japan's national team.


Intro
🕺: We’re holding our 2-day live in Pia Arena, it’s not my hometown but we’re finally back in Kanagawa!
🐉: I had something planned but I thought it’s Kangawa so I’ll let you do it
🕺: Then do it!!
🐉: It’s Kanagawa so I thought I’ll let you shine. Thank you Kanagawa for being so helpful.
🕺: 😂 Who are you?? 😂 You’re acting like one of my mum’s friends!
[back to serious mode] 🐉: We’ve been to Pia Arena many times. It’s also easy to find.
🕺: Their sound [system] is good
🐉: It is. And new. It’s a great environment. Also, the backstage is really clean
🕺: Yeah, the building itself is very new
🐉: Yes yes. Whenever we had lives at Pia Arena I always thought the dressing rooms were clean. Even the toilets
🕺: Thank you thank you~
🐉: Tomorrow is Christmas Eve…
🕺: YESH!! I love it!
🐉: Then the day after tomorrow.. “Christmas” [this was English]
🕺: You have any memories of Christmas? Never mind, maybe we shouldn’t talk so much anymore. Let’s get to the program.

Status Update
🕺: How has 🐉-kun been lately?
🐉: Lately… We’ve been doing a lot of prep for year-end lives and events. We have a lot of collabs. I think one that stood out was Souchin’s dance collab, right?
🕺: A lot came
🐉: I feel like you got closer with Snowman’s Raul
🕺: I did!
🐉: And it was MIKEY’s song right and he choreographed
🕺: Yes he did. That was fun~ (🐉: Fun!) There are some more collabs, we can’t say much about it though
🐉: The collabs in the year-end are pretty insane, and I feel like they’ve increased in numbers. It makes me happy 😊 Other than that it’s fun being a part of it, I think it’s fun for the people watching too.

On Airplane Tickets (song)
🕺: This was the BGM for Pharrell Williams’ fashion runway
🐉: Swae Lee’s voice is really good. There’s depth and clarity to it. It’s worth listening to
🕺: Feels good right?
🐉: There’s a flow that comes from the rhythm, super good

On Jingle Bell Rock by aespa
🕺: How’s aespa’s Jingle Bell Rock
🐉: Mannn
🕺: We also want to do Jingle Bells right?
🐉: The way it starts is innovative!
🕺: Very aespa
🐉: Yeahh~ It’s super good~

BE:FIRST Xmas song picks
🐉 - All I Want for Christmas by Mariah Carey
(🕺: This onneee!)
🐉: You want to sing along don’t you?
🕺: [Christmas] doesn’t start until this song plays right?
🐉: Yeah
🕺: If this song disappears I feel like the Christmas spirit goes down by 40%
🐉: Definitely, the chimes that start from the intro is like a “welcome, thanks for waiting” feeling
🕺: “Come along~ Welcome to Christmas~”
🐉: Yeahhh, then Mariah’s standing at the back and singing

🕺 wanted to pick Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmas Time” but chose “Love & Happiness” by Hirai Dai because he looked out for them during the summer music festival

Songs played: UNLOVE by Zion T. and Last Christmas (cover) by Carly Rae Jepsen
🕺: There are a lot of covers of “Last Christmas” but this one really calms me

Ending
🕺: I’m happy I got to do radio right before Christmas!
🐉: There are some experiences you only get to have around Christmas time~
🕺: Have a good Christmas everyone!

---

Hope you enjoyed!

Please note I translate these for free and I'm not a professional, so they may not be 100% accurate.

Retranslations or sharing of the summaries is fine! For retranslations, please notify me beforehand and credit once posted!

Translations do take time to complete, so if you like my translations you can consider tipping me on Ko-Fi!